<p>Getting Excited About Data, Second Edition builds upon the best-selling first edition to provide additional guidance and support for educators who are "ready, willing, and able" to explore more sophisticated uses of data. New tools and activities facilitate active engagement with data and a collaborative culture of collective responsibility for the learning of all students.<br /><br />Precise and on target, this excellent new resource enables educators to effectively use their schools' data to respond to the challenges of the No Child Left Behind Act, and provides</p> <ul> <li>Descriptions and implementation ideas for each component of a balanced reading and writing program</li> <li>Checklists for reviewing your own literacy program</li> <li>Effective strategies for teaching word study, fluency, and comprehension</li> <li>Vocabulary instructional strategies that expand students' comprehension and word knowledge</li> <li>A knowledge base emphasizing the role of data in school effectiveness and successful change</li> <li>A focus on tapping the professional passion of dedicated educators who want to work for the benefit of students from an intrinsic motivation perspective</li> <li>Group activities that energize people in collaborative efforts</li> <li>Key questions to identify sources of the proof of success necessary to stimulate confidence and further action</li> <li>A clear understanding of the need for "up close, in real time" assessment to balance high-stakes, external tests</li> <li>Information on how to utilize data to establish priorities and integrate accountability requirements with goals that are data-based and grounded in school values</li> </ul> <b>Features</b> <ul> <li>Title - Getting Excited About Data</li> <li>Sub Title - Combining People, Passion, and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement</li> <li>Authored - Edie L. Holcomb</li> <li>Binding - Hardcover</li> <li>Pages - 2- SKU: CRWN179</li> </ul>
The first edition of "Gaia's Garden" sparked the imagination of America's home gardeners, introducing perm culture's central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the perm culture approach for urban and suburban growers. Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening, which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants, can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it's fun and easy to create a "backyard ecosystem" by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including: Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure; catching and conserving water in the landscape; providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals; growing an edible "forest" that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods. This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban perm culture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic perm culture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it's established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that's needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.