On Becoming a School Leader: A Person-Centered Challenge

Romalda Bishop Spalding, Mary Elizabeth North, Mary E. North

Writing Road to Reading 5th REV Ed: The Spalding Method for Teaching Speech, Spelling, Writing, and Reading

This classic guide is a total language arts approach that for over 40 years has helped millions of children learn to spell, write, and read. Using all their senses, children learn symbols that represent fundamental speech sounds and how these combine to form words.

Samuel G. Freedman

Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School

Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a school functions against impossible odds. Small Victories alternates Jessica's experiences with those of others at Seaward Park, and as we cone to know intimately a number of the astonishing students and staff, Small Victories reveals itself as a book that has the power to change the way we see our world.

Jeremy S. Hyman, Lynn F. Jacobs

Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College

The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how to succeed at each of the five "grade-bearing" moments of the semester: (1) The Start (2) The Class (3) The Exam (4) The Paper and (5) The Last Month of the Semester . Fast-paced, entertaining, and easy-to-follow, the Professors' Guide will help you get truly excellent grades in college.