Download or read book Achievement Now written by Donald Fielder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research-based book provides details on how educators can dramatically increase student achievement. It offers numerous experience-based ideas and strategies which can be applied to any school or district.This book will help you: - establish a results-oriented focus on the curriculum - increase time-on-task and academic rigor for ALL students - provide a supportive accountability system for all staff members - identify and eliminate educational practices that lower student achievement - introduce an achievement audit process that will increase student performance in any school or district

Download or read book Achievement Teams written by Steve Ventura and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you had a collaborative process of looking at student data that could pinpoint student gaps in learning and suggest effective strategies to close those gaps? What if you knew not only what you should start doing to enhance student learning, but also what you should stop doing because it hasn't given you the hoped-for results? Enter Achievement Teams. This is not another program that's here today and gone tomorrow; it's a timeless approach that any school or district can replicate that focuses on the most significant variable in student achievement: teaching. In Achievement Teams, Steve Ventura and Michelle Ventura offer a framework based on John Hattie's Visible Learning research that makes teacher collaboration more efficient, rigorous, satisfying, and effective. Think of it as a systematic treasure hunt for best practices using real data on your students. The authors walk you through the Achievement Teams four-step meeting protocol: * In Step 1, teams focus on the evidence from a pre-assessment to provide specific feedback to students and teachers about concepts and skills that students did and did not learn. * In Step 2, teams use that evidence to establish SMART goals for both teachers and students. * In Step 3, teams summarize the collected data and make inferences around students' mastery levels. * In Step 4, teachers select high-impact strategies directly targeted to student needs. A post-assessment reveals what did and didn't work. The authors provide a plethora of resources along the way, including reflection activities to extend your thinking and a variety of helpful downloadable templates designed to facilitate the work. If you're a teacher or leader who is interested in maximizing student achievement, this book is for you.

Download or read book Radiant Achievement written by Christine Howard and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, there’s a way to set-aside relentless striving and stressing to achieve. Christine Howard has created a pioneering, innovative guide that takes you to the crossroads between being and doing, delivering a balanced approach to connecting you with the core of your radiance to allow your greatest callings and dreams to be realized. The fact is, too many women continue to struggle with overwork, exhaustion, and lack of fulfillment. Depression, anxiety, and isolation are all too common. In essence, women are caught in a cycle of dimming down, turning off, and living an unfulfilled life. Using this magnificent new approach, you will begin to express more of your own authentic radiance. You will easily experience more joy and flow. And, most of all, you will give yourself unbridled permission to live a TURNED ON LIFE .... a life where you no longer compromise or deny but instead a radiant life inspired from the heart of your soul-centered calling.

Download or read book Family Life and School Achievement written by Reginald M. Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success. Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.

Download or read book Moving from Activity to Achievement written by Les Taylor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from Activity to Achievement will introduce you to a very simple but powerful process for getting you from where you are now to where you want be. It will change your thinking about success and achievement, by introducing you to a simple, but very powerful methodology for helping you get what you really want out of life. Discover the Power of Clarity and Focus Increase Your Performance and Productivity Achieve Much More in Less Time Improve Your Performance and Productivity Starting Now You will also discover: Obstacles to Performance and Productivity The Keys to Success and Achievement - Personally or professionally The Power of a Plan The Value of Vision How to Face the Challenge of Change Keys for Setting and Achieving Goals How to take the right actions at the right time

Download or read book 7 Rules of Achievement written by Tom Terwilliger and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tell me your goal and I will tell you WHY you are likely NOT to achieve it! The way in which you have pursued goals in the past has very likely created the exact opposite blueprint of the one needed to achieve what you want. Those negative blueprints may be exactly what are keeping you from living your dreams.” --Tom Terwilliger, 7 RULES of Achievement This life changing book will help you finally create the new and empowering architecture needed to achieve whatever you want in your life… including abundant wealth, a joyful and fulfilling relationship, a sexy, strong and healthy body and your ability to lead and inspire. Even before completing the 7 RULES of Achievement you will immediately begin to feel "unstuck" and compelled to start moving towards even your most ambitious dreams.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death written by Ben Bradley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics--such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death--as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm, and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses, non-human animals, combatants in war, and convicted murderers. With chapters written by a wide range of experts in metaphysics, ethics, and conceptual analysis, and designed to give the reader a comprehensive view of recent developments in the philosophical study of death, this Handbook will appeal to a broad audience in philosophy, particularly in ethics and metaphysics.

Download or read book Results Now written by Mike Schmoker and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to author Mike Schmoker, there is a yawning gap between the most well-known essential practices and the reality of most classrooms. This gap persists despite the hard, often heroic work done by many teachers and administrators. Schmoker believes that teachers and administrators may know what the best practices are, but they aren't using them or reinforcing them consistently. He asserts that our schools are protected by a buffer--a protective barrier that prevents scrutiny of instruction by outsiders. The buffer exists within the school as well. Teachers often know only what is going on in their classrooms--and they may be completely in the dark about what other teachers in the school are doing. Even principals, says Schmoker, don't have a clear view of the daily practices of teaching and learning in their schools. Schmoker suggests that we need to get beyond this buffer to confront the truth about what is happening in classrooms, and to allow teachers to learn from each other and to be supervised properly. He outlines a plan that focuses on the importance of consistent curriculum, authentic literacy education, and professional learning communities for teachers. What will students get out of this new approach? Learning for life. Schmoker argues passionately that students become learners for life when they have more opportunities to engage in strategic reading, writing with explicit guidance, and argument and discussion. Through strong teamwork, true leadership, and authentic learning, schools and their students can reach new heights. Results Now is a rally cry for educators to focus on what counts. If they do, Schmoker promises, the entire school community can count on unprecedented achievements.

Download or read book Development of Achievement Motivation written by Allan Wigfield and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses research and theory on how motivation changes as children progress through school, gender differences in motivation, and motivational differences as an aspect of ethnicity. Motivation is discussed within the context of school achievement as well as athletic and musical performance. Key Features * Coverage of the major theories and constructs in the motivation field * Focus on developmental issues across the elementary and secondary school period * Discussion of instructional and theoretical issues regarding motivation * Consideration of gender and ethnic differences in motivation

Download or read book Achievement written by Gwen Bradford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the magisterial to the mundane, achievements play a role in the best kind of human life, and many people think that they are of such importance that they are worth pursuing at the expense of serious sacrifices. Yet for all that, no philosophers have devoted more than a few short passages to discerning what makes achievements valuable, or even what makes something an achievement to begin with. Gwen Bradford presents the first systematic account of what achievements are, and what it is about them that makes them worth doing. It turns out that more things count as achievements than we might have thought, and that what makes them valuable isn't something we usually think of as good. It turns out that difficulty, perhaps surprisingly, plays a central part in characterizing achievements and their value: achievements are worth the effort. But just what does it mean for something to be difficult, and why is it valuable? A thorough analysis of the nature of difficulty is given, and ultimately, the best account of the value of achievements taps into perfectionist axiology. But not just any perfectionist theory of value will do, and in this book we see a new perfectionist theory developed that succeeds in capturing the value of achievement better than its predecessors.

Download or read book Achievement Related Motives in Children written by Charles P. Smith and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1959 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the conditions under which motives to achieve are fostered in children. The papers included in this volume reflect the major traditions of research in the field and bring together a set of studies for achieving a better understanding of the ways in which achievement-related personality characteristics develop and function in evaluative or competitive situations.

Download or read book The Black White Achievement Gap written by Rod Paige and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to race in America, we must face one uncomfortable but undeniable fact. Almost 50 years after the birth of the civil rights movement, inequality still reigns supreme in our classrooms. At a time when African-American students trail their white peers on academic tests and experience high dropout rates, low college completion rates, and a tendency to shy away from majors in hard sciences and mathematics, the Black-White achievement gap in our schools has become the major barrier to racial equality and social justice in America. In fact, it is arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time. The Black-White Achievement Gap is a call to action for this country to face up to and confront this crisis head on. Renowned former Secretary of Education Rod Paige believes we can close this gap. In this thought-provoking book, he and Elaine Witty trace the history of the achievement gap, discuss its relevance to racial equality and social justice, examine popular explanations, and offer suggestions for the type of committed leadership and community involvement needed to close it. African-American leaders need to rally around this important cause if we are to make real progress since students’ academic performance is a function not only of school quality, but of home and community factors as well. The Black-White Achievement Gap is an unflinching and long overdue look at the very real problem of racial disparity in our schools and what we must do to solve it.

Download or read book Deconstructing Scandinavia s Achievement Generation written by Ole Jacob Madsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our understanding of this so-called “achievement generation”, questioning whether today’s youth are really worse off than previous generations and how we have come to believe that this is so. The author’s wide-ranging investigation draws on a large body of research, as well as considering socio-political, historical and regional factors that might be affecting the resilience and mental health among young people. It also provides original psycholinguistic studies of popular media concepts associated with these issues including: “the achievement generation”, “pathological perfection” and “the good girl syndrome”. Deconstructing Scandinavia’s “Achievement Generation” presents an engaging contribution to key debates around therapeutic culture and society in the 21st century. It will appeal to students and scholars of critical and social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy; as well as to those working in education, social work and mental health.

Download or read book Lazar Achievement Psychology written by Richard G. Lazar, Ph.D. and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-07-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a student, graduate student or individual who knows that there is more for you to learn than what you've been exposed to in your life, this one's for you. If you are certain that you have been genetically gifted with talents needed to be a Manager and Not a Managee in life, think again and decide to review this set of skills, concepts and techniques that will help most who master Lazar Achievement Psychology. The Lazar Achievement Psychology provides everything you ever wanted and needed to know in a format you can master in the privacy of your own world and at your own pace. It includes all the self-scoring measurement tools you will need to help you measure to see where you need to improve and then when you re-measure, as often as you wish, you can see how you have improved and where you still may need to improve to Achieve Your Worthwhile Goals. Treat yourself to the premier personal management and leadership skills that have helped 45,000 employees of organizations in all fields. The materials charge for the manual was $200.00 when combined with classroom training at prevailing per diem or project charges. This e book is a truly cost effective alternative for the individual working at improving their skills for work and life. Lazar Achievement Psychology is a text only version of our complete blended-learning, online, on-demand, remote learning course available to enterprises only. Advantages of Mobile, e-Learning: * Available and Accessible at any hour at any time as an ebook on computers and most devices at a very affordable price. • Perfect for Today and Beyond when targeted directly to the Achievement of your unique goals. • At Your Own Rate and personal attention span. • Never Embarrassing. Enables replay in privacy until you get it right. • Truthful Self-Assessment and Measurement increases your motivation in the privacy of the Mobile-Learning method for improvement. At the Heart and Soul of the Achiever: This course embraces the concepts and skills of the Achiever. It is replete with stories from my own personal experience and inspirational guidance in short quotes from the ages. The knowledge offered here is timely and timeless. It is about human love . . . Caring, Respecting, Accepting, Valuing, Encouraging, and Understanding (CRAVE-U™). It's also about Character that we define as doing Good, Right, Helpful and Better. Read on. This is the world's most needed and proven pathway to peace and progress. Proven Evidence: Do good guys always finish last? Answer: No. Do good people do bad things and do bad people do good things? Answer: Yes. Can people learn to be their own managers and not managees? Answer: Absolutely. Can we learn and practice the best in lessons from great emperors, the great sports team builders and the great individual Achievers in life? Answer: Definitely! There's more. How do we know this? Answer: We have done it for 35 years all over the country and throughout the world (except for Antarctica.) We were paid quite well by people who believed that there were and still are much better ways to manage and lead. We were selected in a very competitive world including in higher education to do this work with more than 45,000 people worldwide. The specific case studies and real-life stories are presented to "pepper" the value of the concepts and skills and the techniques of measurement for personal improvement. Every motivated person male or female, young or old can get better with Lazar Achievement Psychology™ now available in almost any ebook reader format.

Download or read book Raising Literacy Achievement in High Poverty Schools written by Eithne Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares lessons gleaned from a two-year intervention in a high-poverty school, which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising children’s motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school. Kennedy argues that there is much that disadvantaged schools can do to close the gap, but this is more likely to occur when a research-based approach to instruction (with a dual emphasis on cognitive skills and motivation and engagement), assessment and professional development is undertaken.

Download or read book Academic Achievement Assessment written by Huisheng Tian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of introduction to academic achievement assessment, international comparison of academic achievement assessment and reference, as well as theoretical system and practice strategy of academic achievement assessment. The study indicates that the development trends of foreign academic achievement assessment are: establishing a complete education quality monitoring system; paying more attention to the function and value of independent education quality monitoring institution and intermediary organization; the orientation based on the integrated development of students growing more apparent; marching from “evaluation of study” to “evaluation for study”; and placing educational equity in a prominent position. This book is easy to understand and readable for professionals like teachers, educational researchers and particularly those engaged in academic achievement.

Download or read book Raising the Achievement of All Pupils Within an Inclusive Setting written by Belle Wallace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this highly engaging book carried out extensive analysis of 12 key schools, selected for their challenging circumstances, whose effective strategies have enabled their more able pupils to thrive and achieve their full potential.