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Change the entire school culture with this collaborative method of supervision

For years, the classic supervision model has frustrated both principals and teachers by fostering superior-subordinate relationships, focusing on teacher conformity rather than growth, or producing checklist data that is irrelevant to the curriculum. The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Throughoffers a practical, time-saving alternative that impacts student achievement by cultivating self-reliant teachers who are continuously improving their practice.

Easy to understand and adopt, this method will answer the questions most important to principals:

• Is the work of my teachers aligned with the district curriculum?
• Are my teachers using research-based "best practices"?
• Are they choosing the instructional strategies that will promote student achievement?

Also known as the Downey Walk-through, the method presented in The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through has been developed over a 40-year period, tested and refined in actual teaching environments, and taught internationally.

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The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through (Multimedia Kit)

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Microsoft describes Silverlight as a "cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web." That's a really boring description for a really exciting new technology. Anyone who has looked at the demos and gotten a taste of what Silverlight can do knows that Silverlight represents an entirely new level of rich web interface technology for Microsoft developers. With Silverlight 2, developers can use JavaScript, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby to build user-friendly, interactive, and visually-dazzling web applications that work in most major browsers.

Silverlight 2 in Action is the first book to cover Silverlight 2, a far more robust implementation of Silverlight than the current 1 release that supports only JavaScript. The much-anticipated 2 release adds powerful new features along with the ability to code in multiple languages and integrate your work with Visual Studio and the new Expression suite of tools. This book delivers real-world examples and in-depth walkthroughs to help you confidently enhance your web applications using Silverlight 2.

Silverlight 2 in Action devotes extensive coverage to flexible layout components, the extensible control model, the communication framework, and the data-binding features "all cornerstones of software development. Author and Microsoft MVP Chad Campbell also describes rich media and vivid graphical and animation features. The final chapters include a variety of Silverlight deployment scenarios.

In addition to the fundamentals of Silverlight, you'll be introduced to architectural components such as the Silverlight object model. The book addresses the developer/designer collaboration model Silverlight enables, showing the developer how to include the designer effectively in the project workflow. This model is illustrated throughout the examples.

For ongoing reader support, the author will maintain a dedicated book-support website providing up-to-the-minute working examples, complete with source code, all in Silverlight..
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Silverlight 2, Microsoft's new web framework for developing rich internet applications, brings the developer and the designer together. This cross-browser, web-oriented subset of Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation plugs into the browser and provides an easy-to-use toolkit for building rich internet applications in JavaScript or any .NET language such as C# or VB. When coupled with designer-friendly graphics tools like Microsoft Expression Blend, designers, web developers, bloggers, and CSS/HTML beginners can all take advantage of Silverlight's comprehensive platform.

Hacking Silverlight is an example-rich Silverlight tutorial that explores the developer/designer workflow key to any successful internet application. This book teaches you in small steps supported by larger lab examples. After you master the basics, you'll learn to work on projects in Visual Studio and Expression Blend at the same time, how to use source control to manage your projects, how to deploy applications successfully, and more.

As part of an elite group hand-picked by Microsoft to test early Silverlight builds and develop sample applications, author David Kelley has hundreds of hours of production-level Silverlight experience. This book guides the reader through a running case study of an actual, large scale Silverlight project created by the author. You'll also learn to create gadgets and mashups using cutting-edge environments like Volta and Popfly. Along the way, you'll pick up unique tips and best practices based on the author's unusually-deep experience with Silverlight 2..
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This is Volume One of a two volume set designed for the Chinese teacher who teaches non-native students in a K - 12 world language classroom. It is available in both a Simplified or Traditional character edition..
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