Most Popular Books by Deborah Davis

For teachers looking for a modern and refreshing approach to the teaching of handwriting, Modern Cursive Today offers many new and innovative features. Each of these are integrated with a sound and practical series of exercises guaranteed to ensure that every student enjoys success in this most important of subjects. The books contain fun and interesting activities that will keep even the upper primary students hooked into handwriting.

Arguably the most influential television personality of all time, Ms. Winfrey and her show have had an impact on American culture that cannot be overstated. This beautifully illustrated book explores and celebrates the legacy of the show using written contributions from a stellar group of public figures and images from notable photographers.

Oxford Handwriting for Queensland is a complete handwriting program developed under the guidance of handwriting expert and author, Deborah Davis. This fresh modern series develops the building blocks of handwriting with correct posture and grip models and opportunities to model and practice accurate letter formation and joining techniques.Student Books 3 - 6: Handwriting tips for joining techniques.Size, slope and spacing instructions.Activities to develop a fluent, automatic handwriting style.Automated formation of high-frequency Oxford Wordlist Plus words.Self-assessment pages to monitor progress.

"PM Handwriting is a carefully sequenced program of handwriting instruction for Foundation to Year 6. It is designed to support students in developing a fluent, legible and automatic handwriting style."--Back cover.

Despite evidence that enhanced teacher education provides enhanced learning opportunities, there is little research on the impact for remedial college students. This study addresses this issue. Reviewing students assigned to remedial reading based on placement test scores, a series of t-tests compared students after one term based on COMPASS scores and compared between the courses provided with teachers of bachelor’s or master’s degrees grouped by gender. This study used a non-experimental, causal-comparative quantitative ex post facto design to study the difference between the education level of the teaching staff and the student achievement at completing the prescribed remediation course within one term. Three t-tests conducted determined that there was a difference, but could not state that the difference was related to the gender of the student. This study used recently archived data at a mid-sized mid-western four-year university compiling a sample size of 115. Due to the Bonferroni Correction, the results were marginal. The null was rejected within the entirety of the sample (N=115) with a finding of t(113.00)=-6.31, p=0.01. However, for the sample of males (n=59), the null could not be rejected with a finding of t(57.00)=4.33,p=0.02 due to the application of the Bonferroni correction. As to the sample of females (n=56), the null could not be rejected with a finding of t(50.00)=4.46, p=0.02 due to the application of the Bonferroni correction. Colleges and universities can use this study to aid in assigning professorial staff to remedial courses for the best possible outcomes. This study should be replicated with other variables and in varying size colleges in the future.

PM Handwriting for Victoria is a carefully sequenced handwriting program for Foundation to 6, designed to enable students to master a fluent, legible and automatic handwriting style. The series provides instruction for correct letter formation and joining techniques in the Victorian Modern Cursive style. The workbooks feature high-frequency words, favourite characters, themes and topics from the PM readers, and purposeful digital extension activities accessed via QR codes.

"This School Improvement Toolkit is a hands-one, practical guide for developing a School Improvement Plan. The chapters correspond to seven essential steps the school improvement process that were originally developed from the effective schools research of Lezotte (1992), the Onward to Excellence model (NWREL), and countless others who have built on these early efforts" (page 1).

THE ART OF CANINE CUISINE is a full-color cookbook for foodies with dogs that contains unique recipes covering six international cuisines-Italian, French, Chinese, American, Mexican, and Irish. All the recipes have been vet approved as safe for healthy dogs and, with a few spice adjustments, can be shared with their human "parents." Each cuisine section presents original painted portraits of canine guides, with each breed representing it''s country of origin and history. The book is filled with stunning photography of food and dogs. This is not just a beautiful cookbook, but also a journal of the stories of rescued dogs from heartbreaking conditions to new lives.

This study examines the systems of technical assistance and support that Northwest Region states implemented during 2005-2006 for schools in need of improvement. By highlighting key characteristics and differences among state systems, the intent is to stimulate an analysis of what states can do and what issues they might address to move schools out of in need of improvement status. Building on the requirements of the 1994 Improving America''s Schools Act, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires states to create an accountability system that tracks progress toward all students'' proficiency in math and reading. To increase accountability, schools are required to make adequate yearly progress by meeting state-established proficiency levels set to rise incrementally to the NCLB mandate of 100 percent by 2014. Efforts in Washington, Montana and Oregon point to early positive effects of assisting schools by employing external facilitators such as school support teams and teachers, principals or administrators who are knowledgeable about research-based programs and instructional practices and may have experience with school reform, and methods for improving educational opportunities. All Northwest Region states cited professional development as an important element of their statewide systems of support. School staff throughout the region engages in school-, district- or state-based professional development geared to their school improvement efforts. Many schools require some level of continued assistance beyond the initial intensive support they receive from their districts or the state. As states and districts provide support for schools facing increasingly stringent NCLB requirements, common strategies are emerging, such as providing professional development for principals and assigning external facilitators such as school support teams to provide consistent support. Challenges such as large percentages of rural and remote schools, high numbers of non-English-speaking and special education students, and local control issues all preclude the emergence of one overarching best solution. At this time a better understanding of the critical success factors and conditions that optimize the improvement process is needed to assist policymakers as they develop their statewide systems of support. Two appendixes include: (A) Demographic Data for Northwest Region Public Schools; and (B) Case Study: Washington''s School Improvement Assessment Program. (Contains 2 boxes and 5 tables.) [This report was prepared for the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) by Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest administered by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.].