* Each chapter covers a specific cause of teacher burnout, allowing the overwhelmed teacher to flip around and selectively read those chapters relating to their biggest challenges. * Includes reflection exercises, confessions from teachers, veteran teachers' tips, and inspiring quotes to engage and inspire the busy educator. * Provides straightforward tips and checklists so teachers can immediately apply these ideas to their day, including electronic supplements for download and use online.

* Each chapter covers a specific cause of teacher burnout, allowing the overwhelmed teacher to flip around and selectively read those chapters relating to their biggest challenges. * Includes reflection exercises, confessions from teachers, veteran teachers' tips, and inspiring quotes to engage and inspire the busy educator. * Provides straightforward tips and checklists so teachers can immediately apply these ideas to their day, including electronic supplements for download and use online.

This important resource helps researchers in all disciplines share their findings, knowledge, and ideas effectively and beyond their own field. By pursuing the practical recommendations in this book, researchers can increase the exposure of their ideas, connect with wider audiences in powerful ways, and ensure their work has a true impact. The book covers the most effective ways to share research, such as: Social media-leveraging time-saving tools and maximizing exposure and branding. Media-landing interviews and contributing to public dialogue. Writing-landing book deals and succeeding in key writing opportunities. Speaking-giving TED Talks, delivering conference keynote presentations, and appearing on broadcasts like NPR. Connecting-networking, influencing policy, and joining advisory boards. Honors-winning awards and recognition to expand your platform. Rich in tips, strategies, and guidelines, this book also includes clever "fast tracks" and downloadable eResources that provide links, leads, and templates to help secure radio broadcasts, podcasts, publications, conferences, awards, and other opportunities. The eResources can be found under the Support Materials heading below!

This highly practical guide helps education experts of all levels share their knowledge, work, and research beyond their own field and colleagues. By pursuing the recommendations in this book, educators and researchers can increase the exposure of their ideas and impact more students' lives (this also enhances readers' CVs and careers). Chapters cover the most effective and efficient ways to share readers' expertise with the world, such as: Branding (crafting your pitch and leveraging social media) Writing (landing book deals and succeeding in key writing opportunities) Speaking (giving TED Talks, delivering conference keynote presentations, appearing on NPR, landing interviews, and contributing to public dialogue) Participating and serving (making connections, influencing policy, and joining panels or advisory boards) Honors (winning awards and recognition to expand your platform) Rich in tips, strategies, and guidelines, this book also includes downloadable eResources that provide links, leads, and templates to help secure radio broadcasts, podcasts, conferences, and other publication opportunities. The eResources can be found under the Support Materials heading below!

Educators are increasingly responsible for using data to improve teaching and learning in their schools. This helpful guide provides leaders with simple steps for facilitating accurate analysis and interpretation of data, while avoiding common errors and pitfalls. How to Make Data Work provides clear strategies for getting data into workable shape and creating an environment that supports understanding, analysis, and successful use of data, no matter what data system or educational technology tools are in place in your district. This accessible resource makes data easy to understand and use so that educators can better evaluate and maximize their systems to help their staff, students, and school succeed. With this tried-and-true guidance, you'll be prepared to advocate for tools that adhere to data reporting standards, avoid misinterpretation of data, and improve the data use climate in your school.

Educators are increasingly responsible for using data to improve teaching and learning in their schools. This helpful guide provides leaders with simple steps for facilitating accurate analysis and interpretation of data, while avoiding common errors and pitfalls. How to Make Data Work provides clear strategies for getting data into workable shape and creating an environment that supports understanding, analysis, and successful use of data, no matter what data system or educational technology tools are in place in your district. This accessible resource makes data easy to understand and use so that educators can better evaluate and maximize their systems to help their staff, students, and school succeed. With this tried-and-true guidance, you'll be prepared to advocate for tools that adhere to data reporting standards, avoid misinterpretation of data, and improve the data use climate in your school.

This important resource helps researchers in all disciplines share their findings, knowledge, and ideas effectively and beyond their own field. By pursuing the practical recommendations in this book, researchers can increase the exposure of their ideas, connect with wider audiences in powerful ways, and ensure their work has a true impact. The book covers the most effective ways to share research, such as: Social media-leveraging time-saving tools and maximizing exposure and branding. Media-landing interviews and contributing to public dialogue. Writing-landing book deals and succeeding in key writing opportunities. Speaking-giving TED Talks, delivering conference keynote presentations, and appearing on broadcasts like NPR. Connecting-networking, influencing policy, and joining advisory boards. Honors-winning awards and recognition to expand your platform. Rich in tips, strategies, and guidelines, this book also includes clever "fast tracks" and downloadable eResources that provide links, leads, and templates to help secure radio broadcasts, podcasts, publications, conferences, awards, and other opportunities. The eResources can be found under the Support Materials heading below!

Standards for Reporting Data to Educators provides a synthesis of research and best practices of how data should be presented to educators in order to optimize the effectiveness of data use. Synthesizing over 300 sources of peer-reviewed research, expert commentary, and best practices, Rankin develops a set of data reporting standards that education data system vendors, providers, and creators can apply to improve how data is displayed for educators. The accurate and effective presentation of data is paramount to educators' ability to successfully implement and make use of the most current knowledge in the field. This important book reveals the most effective ways to communicate data to ensure educators can use data easily and accurately.

This highly practical guide helps education experts of all levels share their knowledge, work, and research beyond their own field and colleagues. By pursuing the recommendations in this book, educators and researchers can increase the exposure of their ideas and impact more students' lives (this also enhances readers' CVs and careers). Chapters cover the most effective and efficient ways to share readers' expertise with the world, such as: Branding (crafting your pitch and leveraging social media) Writing (landing book deals and succeeding in key writing opportunities) Speaking (giving TED Talks, delivering conference keynote presentations, appearing on NPR, landing interviews, and contributing to public dialogue) Participating and serving (making connections, influencing policy, and joining panels or advisory boards) Honors (winning awards and recognition to expand your platform) Rich in tips, strategies, and guidelines, this book also includes downloadable eResources that provide links, leads, and templates to help secure radio broadcasts, podcasts, conferences, and other publication opportunities. The eResources can be found under the Support Materials heading below!

Though nearly 5 million students can be characterized as gifted and talented in the United States, many exceptional learners ""fly under the radar."" Because they are not appropriately challenged in the general classroom, they never meet their full potential in school or in life. Author Jenny Grant Rankin equips general classroom teachers with the information and strategies they need to spot, advocate for, engage, and challenge exceptional learners in their classrooms. Learn how to: Recognize the challenges of each child. Identify the five unexpected traits of exceptional learners. Adjust your teaching to meet the needs of all learners. Filled with useful strategies and poignant personal accounts, this book gives you the ""meat"" of what you need to prevent those students who need to be challenged and engaged from slipping through the cracks.