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2010 Alaska School Laws and Regulations
Alaska School Laws and Regulations provides the most comprehensive collection of education-related statutes available. In addition to annotated text from Title 14 (Education, Libraries and Museums), this reference includes hundreds of other provisions from the Alaska Statutes and the Alaska Administrative Code relevant to educators, administrators, board members, and school attorneys.
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Alaska School Board Handbook
A guide to effective leadership through Board standards. Designed to help orient new board members.
Price: $30.00 plus shipping and handling.
50 pages, binder w/ tabs
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Becoming a Better Board Member
Third Edition, has been revised to include NSBA's Key Work of School Boards and updated to help new board members develop knowledge, skills and confidence.
Price: $35.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
326 pages, softback
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Raising the Bar: A School Board Primer on Student Achievement
Published by NSBA
Written by noted education authority Gerald Bracey, with a special section on the role of the school board by NSBA Associate Executive Director Michael A. Resnick, this primer is a fundamental reference tool for local school board members.
Price: $10.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
56 pages, softback
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Reaching For Excellence: What Local School Districts are Doing to Raise Student Achievement
by Tibbett L. Speer, NSBA
Published by the National School Boards Association, Reaching for Excellence: What Local School Districts are Doing to Raise Student Achievement, serves as a resource on student achievement initiatives in this country and offers a framework through which to view them.
Price: $20.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
74 pages, softback
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The Educated Student: Defining and Advancing Student Achievement
Written by Michael A. Resnick, Published by NSBA
Price: $17.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
96 pages, softback
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Two Dozen Secrets That Will Make You a Hit With Your School Board
Written by Michael Kremer, James Rickabaugh and William Wright
Price: $10.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
28 pages, softback
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Why Vouchers Won’t Work: A Toolkit for School Board Members
Written by Michael A. Resnick,
Published by NSBA
This publication gives public school advocates the tools to recognize and refute the fallacies that voucher advocates advance.
Price: $25.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
74 pages, softback
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Robert's Rules of Order -- Newly Revised 11th edition
Price: $18.95 plus shipping and handling fees.
669 pages, softback
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Notes and Comments on Robert's Rules
Price: $15.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
175 pages, softback
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Alaska School Laws and Regulations – Annotated (Red cover)
Price: $40.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
539 pages, softback
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Getting the Best Bite of the Apple: How to Take Control of Your Child's Education in the Public Schools
You'll learn a new, effective model of parent-school interaction that you can use now to ensure the quality of your children's education . . . and their academic success.
Price: $11.95 plus shipping and handling fees.
161 pages, softback
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Getting There From Here
Written by Richard H. Goodman, Luann Fulbright and William G. Zimmerman, Jr.
Published by NESDEC and ERS
School Board-Superintendent Collaboration: Creating a School Governance Team Capable of Raising Student Achievement
Price: $15.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
122 pages, softback
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Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Written by Roger Fisher & William Ury, Published by Penguin Books
Getting to Yes offers concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals continually with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution from domestic to business to international, Getting to YES tells you.
Price: $12.95 plus shipping and handling fees.
200 pages, softback
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Improving School Board Decision-Making
The Data Connection
To foster excellence and equity in public education through innovation in school board leadership and community involvement. A worthy mission statement for this foundation. But how do you strategically make it happen for your school district or for the districts across your state?
Price: $20.00 plus shipping and handling fees.
92 pages, softback
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Another Culture/Another World
Exploring the great diversity of Alaska's cultural mosaic through the re-examination of historical events, amusing anecdotes and his analysis of representative Alaska Native legends, Father Michael Oleksa invites us to join in his journey to illustrate the importance of cross-cultural education and his belief in the intrinsic value of every culture.
Price: $15.00
160 pages, softback
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Helping Kids Succeed - Alaskan Style
This inspiring, practical and easy-to-read handbook spells out 40 developmental assets young people need to shape their own success. It includes suggestions to help kids build assets at home, at school and in the community.
190 pages, softback
Price: $5.00 (AASB members)
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$15.00 (non-members)
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Helping Little Kids Succeed - Alaskan Style
This inspiring, practical and easy-to-read handbook spells out 40 developmental assets young people need to shape their own success. It includes suggestions to help kids build assets at home, at school and in the community.
190 pages, softback
Price: $5.00 (AASB members)
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$15.00 (non-members)
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Aanka Xóodzi ka Aasgutu Xóodzi Shkalneegi
Written by Ernestine Hayes, illustrated by Wanda Culp, translated by Ethel Makinen and Roby Littlefield, and published in Tlingit for children and adults alike, Aanka Xóodzi ka Aasgutu Xóodzi Shkalneegi tells a timeless tale of the dangers of giving up something we love for the promise of an easy life.
Book: $13 (Tlingit-version)
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Audiobook CD: $5 (read by Tlingit speakers Florence Sheakley, Paul Marks and Kassy Littlefield) (also available for free download here)
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Study Guide: $10 (in English - a host of questions and talking points for use with the text)
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Special Package price for all three resources: $23
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The Story of the Town Bear and the Forest Bear (English-version)
Book: $13.95 (English-version)
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Traditional Values of Alaska poster This educational poster depicts the traditional values of Native people from Alaska's various geographic regions, including Alutiiq, Athabascan, Cup'ik, Inupiaq, Southeast (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian), Unangan and Yup'ik cultures. It is being distributed as an educational resource to schools and organizations statewide.
Price: Free (plus shipping and handling)
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Living and Learning - Residence Hall Environments that Help Kids Succeed Galena School District’s Resiliency in Residence Life project has teamed up with AASB/Alaska ICE to publish Living and Learning, a residence life workbook targeting high school and college campus life that outlines numerous activities and ideas for engaging youth and fostering a positive school climate aligned with the Assets Framework.
Price: $10 (plus shipping and handling)
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Activities to Connect Generations
Drawing upon the many popular activities used in Alaska ICE presentations and workshops, this book is designed to bring youth and adults together in meaningful ways, while building skills in leadership, trust, teamwork, and asset building. Please contact us for a copy, or visit our Activities and Ideas page to download some of the activities from the book.
Price: $10 (AASB members) (plus shipping and handling)
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$15 (non-members) (plus shipping and handling)
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Alaskan Homilies to Help Kids Succeed
This book was born in a faith community in Anchorage, yet was written for use by faith communities of all kinds. The format was selected to enable each asset to be described in a homily, or brief sermon, including a page of ideas that individuals and groups can use to build assets in their faith community. (also available for free download here)
Price: Free (plus shipping and handling)
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The Power of an Untapped Resource
This booklet focuses on the dynamic influence and depth youth can provide on school and other boards and offers direction and guidance to board members for giving youth the opportunity to serve. Updated edition.
Price: $7 (plus shipping and handling)
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Helping Kids Succeed - Anchorage School District Style After 10 years of applying the asset building message in the district, Anchorage School District's Safe and Drug-Free Schools staff have firmly embedded the developmental assets framework into the vocabulary of the district. Gain insight into school-based efforts that have been instrumental in advancing student success districtwide.
Price: $5 (AASB members) (plus shipping and handling)
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Price: $10 (non-members) (plus shipping and handling)
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Helping Kids Succeed poster
This poster lists the 40 assets, summarizes assets research, and depicts Alaskan families engaged in asset building activities.
Price: $5 (plus shipping and handling)
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We Will Rise - music CD
We Will Rise is a 14 track collection of John McCutcheon songs celebrating healthy families, youth advocacy and the wonders of childhood.
Price: $8 (plus shipping and handling)
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