Timed Readings or Leading Your Team to Excellence

Timed Readings: Book 8, Vol. 8

Author: Edward Spargo

Do your students fail to even finish a timed test? Do they read word by word? Do they simply move their eyes over the page, never remembering what they read?

If you suspect that students' test scores are being confounded by any of these traits, or if you have students who need to process greater amounts of information, the Timed Readings books can help.

For over thirty years, Jamestown has been helping students increase their reading rate and fluency while maintaining comprehension.

Timed Readings is the original series of timed reading books; 400-word nonfiction timed passages in science, social studies, the humanities, and more.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the StudentHow to Use This Book Instructions for the Pacing Drills Steps to Faster Reading Step 1: Preview Step 2: Read for Meaning Step 3: Grasp Paragraph Sense Step 4: Organize Facts Timed Reading Selections Answer Key Progress Graph Pacing Graph

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Leading Your Team to Excellence: How to Make Quality Decisions

Author: Elaine K McEwan

"This book is particularly well-organized. It will be an invaluable resource for educators who are interested in leading their teams to excellence."

Ren T. Snyder, Associate Principal
Flowing Wells High School, Tucson, Arizona

This book provides the tools and decision-making skills to help propel your school to excellence. McEwan shows you, step-by-step, how to create and sustain an effective, dynamic, site-based decision-making team at your school. Share the responsibility for leadership and improve the quality of every decision your group makes.

You'll learn how to:   

• Introduce and nourish the "teaming" concept
• Create a flexible team structure
• Master the necessary skills for successful decision making
• Choose the right group process for each problem-solving situation
• Unleash the power and productivity in your staff (and yourself)

Begin by building shared values, mutual trust, and teamwork abilities to make working together more productive. Lead your group in developing creative new ideas for solving old problems. Share critical information among group members. Your team will learn to improve and streamline its decision-making process and develop better strategies for dealing with conflict. Your newly empowered site-based management group will share commitment, success, and the realization of a job well done--together. Your quality decision making team can share the benefits with everyone at your school and create your school's future as a real teaching and learning community.