Writing the Playbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School King shares: Critical insight into the brain-based differences between boys and girlsFirst-hand leadership and classroom experiences to provide educators with a blueprint for creating schools where boys (and girls!) t
| TITLE | : | Writing the Playbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.78 (295 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1452242984 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 216 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-02-27 |
| GENRE | : |
Your game plan for getting boys on the path to higher achievementAs 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
EDITORIAL :
"This is a highly practical and highly relevant book. Two thumbs up!" (Eric Jensen, Author of Teaching with the Brain in Mind 2012-11-05)
"Finally, some practical advice from an experienced educator on how to make boys into successful students. King's credentialsmother of both a son and daughter as well as a principal who successfully addressed gender gaps at her schoolare unbeatable." (Richard Whitmire, Author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind 2012-11-05)
"Kelley King is both impassioned and level-headed, and she starts a conversation that we desperately need to have in our country." (Michael Kimmel, Author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men 2012-11-05)
"This book isn't just theoryit provides the answers for why things work and how to lead a chang
REVIEW :
As someone who's coached many a narcissist and has seen our country's infatuation with celebrity leading us away from dialoguing around important issues and the truth in journalism, this book is simply a revelation of what's truly wrong about our culture. I read this to our grandsons and they absolutely loved it. Although it is hard to get a reliable information on the evaluations of narrations except the ones by some very famous narrators such as Mr George Guidall or Ms Barbara Rosenblat, this book tells us many audiobooks who has other excellent narrations. When I bought this book I thought I would learn more about the actual technique of NRT but it was just describing how it works. The themes of that narrative, I'd say, are two: 1) the gloss method of definition is deficient, and 2) every lexicon necessarily builds off of others: beware!
Part 2 applies his insights to a fre
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