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HUMOR: APRIL FOOLS’ BONUS The By Odvard Egil Dyrli COLLECTED CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS edited by Travis T. Hourbul Committees should be free to talk and not waste valuable time taking notes and arguing about the accuracy of recorded statements. Use this giant subject-indexed resource to determine your ﬁnal recommendations in advance. These pretested conclusions are guaranteed to please almost everyone. GRIMMEST BOOK OF WORLD SCHOOL-RECORDS Keep important statistical information at your ﬁ ngertips: names, dates and places. The primary teacher known for the most consecutive days in distributing outline drawings for children to color … the intermediate teacher with the largest collection of chalk tips … the principal holding the lifetime record for distance in hallwalking—it’s all here. Don’t guess when you can look it up! REPORT ON CEILING HEIGHT IN SELECTED MIDDLE SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT IDAHO AND MONTANA Circular File Series, No. 1492, Professional Curriculum Bulletin MUSTy 488, Southwestern Bureau of the Determined Consortium of State Superintendents of Public Burden, Coordinated Commission on Appointed Task Forces for the Practical Dissemination of Innovative Practices in the Americas. One-page leaﬂet. Available in English and Spanish. INUNDATED REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH by Nadir Gauge A semi-complete guide to research studies that report “no signiﬁcant differences.” Desired outcomes clearly identiﬁed by each researcher with candid thoughts on “Where Dyrli takes a jaundiced look at “must read” professional books for educators. Note that unpopular selections will be reissued under new titles, so watch for them. INSTIGATED EDUCATION by Soft and Desirable Control and order within legal bounds. Learn unique tactics for maintaining school order without fear of legal reprisal. Dress up dressing down with community-bewildering technicalities: in locus parentis, primus inter pares, nom de plume, and even the fearsome pomme de terre (use with discretion, of course!). I screwed up.” Contains some of the most exotic variables and indices ever assembled, a ﬁ reside compendium of fantasy for the science ﬁction buff. Twelve hundred pages, with more to come. COMPLACENCY-BASED EDUCATION by Anonymous et al. (never completed) Suggested hints on things you might want to add to your curriculum sometime. Or maybe not. Buy it if you want. It’s up to you. We don’t care either way. HELLO TO YOU IDEA BOOK Innovative, nonfunded social science program on “greeting relationships” helps you help students approach individuals of all ages. Three years in development MUTUAL RESPECT SOURCEBOOK by former educators and hangers-on The collected scathing attacks on schools by real humans who survived middle-age crisis. Read truly beautiful insights on how they would run districts if education were as lucrative as speaking and writing. Contents include “Dumping Traditional Teachers,” “Making Administrators Cower” and “Getting Parents in Touch with Their Navels.” 74 April 2007 District Administration

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - April 2007

Editor's Letter
Update
Inside the Law
Curriculum Update
District Profile
Administrator Profile
“See You in Court!"
Lost in Translation
Bonding Agents
Certifying AP Courses
Hunting for Talent - Part 2
Buying Power
The Musty Bookshelf
New Products
Leadership
Speaking Out
The Online Edge
Problem/Solution
Calendar of Events
Overheard On The Pulse

District Administration - April 2007