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Celebrate to Motivate: The Art of Inspiring Students, Staff, and the School Community
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Shawn Creswell; Katy Sue Traicoff – Solution Tree, 2025
Celebrations enrich the lives of students, staff members, and school communities. The authors provide powerful, compelling stories; proven strategies; and practical tools for embedding celebration into school culture. Drawing on insights from schools and districts, this book empowers K-12 teachers and administrators to create a celebratory…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Motivation, Student Motivation, Positive Reinforcement
Increasing the Impact of Your Research: A Practical Guide to Sharing Your Findings and Widening Your Reach
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Rankin, Jenny Grant – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
This guide helps researchers in all fields share their findings, knowledge, and ideas effectively and beyond typical silos. By pursuing the recommendations in this book, researchers can increase the exposure of their work to increase impact. Chapters cover the most effective ways to share readers' research, such as: (1) social media (maximizing…
Descriptors: Research, Social Media, Marketing, Best Practices
Principals as Maverick Leaders: Rethinking Democratic Schools
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Walker, Sharron Goldman; Chirichello, Michael – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey. The principal discovers that the reasons for winning the award are a sham! As her school falls apart, she begins to reflect on the stagnant school organization and the ineffective prescriptions for…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Democracy, School Organization, Principals
Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement.
Marzano, Robert J.; Pickering, Debra J.; Pollock, Jane E. – 2001
This book provides information on what works in education, how teachers can find what works, how educational research can find its way into classrooms, and how teachers can apply it to help individual students. Data come from a meta-analysis of research studies on instructional strategies that could be used by K-12 teachers. Nine research-based…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Cues, Differences
Recognition without Rewards: Building Connections.
Cameron, Caren; Tate, Betty; MacNaughton, Daphne; Politano, Colleen – 1997
Noting that the use of rewards in the form of stickers, trophies, prizes, points, tokens, and grades is commonplace in elementary education today, this book explores the differences between rewards and recognition and shows how teachers can build student confidence, motivate learning, and develop skills for lifelong learning through recognition.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Managing and Developing People in the Virtual Organization. Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Series.
Colky, Deborah Lavin; Colky, Michael T.; Young, William H., III – 2002
Designed for managers and workers in virtual organizations as well as adult and continuing educators in higher education, associations, and private sector, this book outlines a customer-driven performance management system and explains its use as a development tool. The characteristics of virtual organizations are described, and the rationale for…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Collegiality, Continuing Education