Writing the Playbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School - Softcover

King, Kelley E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452242984 ISBN 13: 9781452242989

Verlag: Corwin, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Your game plan for getting boys on the path to higher achievement As a school leader, Kelley King has walked the talk: she successfully led her own staff to close the achievement gap between boys and girls in reading and writing in just one year. In this book, readers get King’s step-by-step, research-based leadership plan for jump-starting boys’ achievement. King shares: Critical insight into the brain-based differences between boys and girls First-hand leadership and classroom experiences to provide educators with a blueprint for creating schools where boys (and girls!) thrive Ready-to-use activities and resources for leading a successful gap-closing initiative

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Dr. Kelley King is a Corwin author and has been a Visible Learning consultant since the North American launch in 2013.  With over 35 years of service in K-12 schools, Kelley has worked in both public and private schools and in regular education, special education and gifted education. As an award-winning school principal, Kelley's success in leading initiatives to close gender achievement gaps has been featured on The Today Show, in Newsweek magazine, on National Public Radio, in EdWeek, in Education Leadership and more. 

Kelley's book with Corwin Press is titled Writing the Playbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School and is a K-12 "how-to" guide for raising boys' achievement, reducing discipline and fostering a sense of belonging and relevance for boys at school. Kelley has written two other books that take a brain-based approach to addressing gender gaps for girls in math and science and boys in literacy. Kelley holds a Doctorate of Education in Educational Administration and Leadership and a Masters Degree in Special Education.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1452242984
• ISBN 13: 9781452242989
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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