We have a wide-variety of books, articles and videos to help you learn more about how to improve student achievement in your school / district.
Articles
- Creating Cathedrals For Learning, Not Fortresses of Fear
- Creating the Climate For Positive School Change
- Keeping Students Engaged in School Through the UK-I-Can Program
- Systems of Prevention & Intervention to Address Student Achievement
- Interdisciplinary Teaching and Academic Teams: Instruction For a New Generation of Students
- A Comprehensive Plan to Create a Safe Learning Environment
- Be Safe and Sound ?????
- Be Safe and Sound Expands Its Membership
- Education: Cornerstone of a Civilized Society ?????
- Columbine Five Years Later: Are Our Schools Any Safer?
- For a Safe School–Know Your Students
Books
Six Pillars of Dynamic Schools, by Steven Edwards and Paul Chapman
This book uncovers an often overlooked truth—effective change is the product of hard work and dedication. Dynamic schools result from consistent and redundant focus on the fundamental core elements affecting teachers and students. What sets this book apart is its focus on how schools leaders do business, instead of on what these leaders should do.
(c) 2009, Educational Research Services.
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The Student Assistance Center, by Steven Edwards
Published by Solution Tree, this book walks schools through the process of developing, implementing, and sustaining a center that improves the culture and climate of schools, and reduces incidents of violence. During Dr. Edwards’ tenure as principal of East Hartford High School, he and his staff developed the Center to provide wrap-around services to students. This book offers invaluable guidance for creating a centralized array of on-site support and enrichment programs.
(c) 2003, Solution Tree.
The Principal’s Role in Dropout Prevention: Seven Key Principles
by Steven W. Edwards and Rebecca Edwards
Can anything be done to resolve the crisis of youth at risk of dropping out of school? The Seven Key Principles for reducing school dropout rates can be seen are “roadmaps” for successfully resolving dropout problems.
(c) 2007, National Dropout Prevention Center.
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iLead 21: Novice Leader, by Rebecca Edwards
iLead 21 is a progressive leadership development experience for middle and high school students. The iLead 21 Novice leaders learn the basics of leadership theory and skills, and practice them through their iLead job and company responsibilities. Student leaders also learn how to apply the 5 iLead principles to their own lives, and work on moving up the first 7 of 21 rungs in the iLead Leadership Ladder.
(c) 2009, Edwards Educational Services, Inc.
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iLead 21: Emerging Leader, by Rebecca Edwards
During the second stage of iLead 21, Emerging Leaders apply all that they have learned as Novice leaders in self-created tasks in a variety of topic areas. Emerging Leaders form their own company and work in different group configurations with other iLeaders from their school and from other schools around the country. Emerging Leaders continue to implement the 5 iLead principles in their lives and deepen their ability to lead themselves.
(c) 2011, Edwards Educational Services, Inc.
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Videos
We provide a platform for collaboration within a learning organization by developing a systematic and comprehensive approach to school change that permeates all levels of student performance.
Stories of Success in Toledo Public Schools