Educational administration and organization

Understanding Radicalism: How It Affects What's Happening in Education and Student's Overall examines and explores the ever-growing trend to use education, outside groups, and social media as agencies of indoctrination and moral suasion, to capture the imaginations, thus prompting students to question their own racial and gender identities.

This book explores the principal's role in meeting high expectations for student achievement.

The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.

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Using case studies from eighteen secondary schools the authors analyse the effectiveness of a range of management styles and offer practical advice on how to effectively manage resources within a school setting.

Leading CPD shows you how to design and lead an effective professional development programme in your school to benefit teachers and students and to lead to real change.

Diary of a Dean is a memoir of Herbert London's years at New York University.

This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships.

This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard's organization theory.

When a fourth-grade student, Jenny, was asked about reading, she stated: "e;I love to read, you get real neat ideas.

The contribution schools can make to improving students' health and wellbeing is increasingly recognised.

The guiding idea of this book concerns the nature of teacher education in the future, viewing the understanding of the history of teacher education in different context as the basis for future development.

Exploring current approaches to addressing boys' education in schools, this book highlights the limitations of structural reform initiatives and the failure to address the impact of socioeconomic status, race, sexuality, disability and hegemonic masculinity on both boys' and girls' participation in schooling.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A thought-provoking examination of how public education systems can be strengthened through strategic relationships both within schools and with outside partners.

This is the tale of the origin, emergence, and transformation of an unorthodox binational partnership, the Georgia Project, that brought a Mexican university to aid a Georgia school district that suddenly found itself hosting thousands of Latino newcomers.

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This unique book offers compelling stories to help you encounter life with mindfulness and find new vigor on your teaching path.

This book engages contemporary debates about the notion of secularism outside of the field of education in order to consider how secularism shapes the formation of progressive sexuality education.

Expanding a principal's formal education and training, The Principal as Learning-Leader is a administrator's guide to improving student achievement, showing practitioners how to focus on the individual academic performance of each and every student and to work with the school staff and community to develop a learning culture that supports student success.

This edited book brings together teachers and education academics who are committed to education about, for and through democracy.

The riotous world of the classroom, captured by the cartoonists at The New Yorker The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons, Second Edition is a hilarious compilation of cartoons that capture the joy, terror, excitement, anxiety, fun, and bedlam that teachers experience every day, as seen through the eyes of The New Yorker's best-loved cartoonists.

The book shows you how you can effectively integrate the latest findings of neuroscience into your everyday work or leadership.

The under-representation of characters of colour in children's literature in the UK is quantified in the CLPE's award winning Reflecting Realities research.

The Internet, high-tech calculators, and other technological advances have made student cheating easier and more common than ever before.

In Engaging Schooling, the authors use case studies to engagingly demonstrate how schools can use pedagogical change to enable students from low SES backgrounds to benefit academically and socially from their schooling.

Educational Outcomes for Students With Disabilities provides readers with the most current perspectives on outcomes that are certain to have an influence on the services they provide.

In light of a new wave of globalisation, cultural mobility, and criticism of Anglo-American domination, how must educational administrators and leaders respond to the challenges of internationalising their curricula and accommodating diversity?

Almost everyone agrees that America's urban schools are a mess.

Research has shown that there is no greater influence on a student's success than the quality of his or her teacher.

Refocusing School Leadership departs from the more traditional conceptualization of leadership, looking behind the daily routines of human resource leaders to highlight the assumptions and values and beliefs they bring to their work as well as the values and meanings embedded in the various contexts of school life.

Smart financial management means more students served Community College Finance provides an introduction to best practices for community college leaders and their boards, with guidance on the complex regulations, processes, and considerations surrounding the financial management of these unique institutions.

Designed for aspiring school leaders, this fully updated fourth edition presents the realities of school finance policy and issues, as well as the tools for formulating and managing school budgets.

Teaching Media Ethics gives journalism and mass communication instructors the ideas and tools they need to effectively incorporate media ethics into courses across the curriculum.

Values and Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education provides distinctive insights into potential strengths to develop trainee teachers' values within school-based training.

Leading schools is becoming almost daily a more complex and demanding job.

Working with Uncertainty for Educational Change explores the liberating possibilities for those who seek to embrace existing research into uncertainty and complexity at diverse levels in the world of education.

This book is for headteachers, senior and middle managers in both primary and secondary schools, and all teachers involved in the performance management process.

Editor John Schuh and his fellow contributors, all experts in the field, detail the methodological aspects of conducting assessment projects specifically for the student affairs practitioner who is ready to conduct assessment projects, but is not quite sure how to manage their technical aspects.

Education in the twenty-first century demands that we examine school practices as never before.

This topical volume tells the story of the UK debate on financing higher education, illustrating a head-on collision between the economic imperatives of student loans and regulated market forces, and the political imperative of 'free' higher education.

"e;This book has the potential to do for nurseries what Michael Fullan's work did for schools, to re-affirm the moral heart of leadership.

Improving the quality and effectiveness of relationships with families is a key concern for all those working in education.

This book discusses how the methods and mindsets of design thinking empower large organizations to create groundbreaking innovations.

Failing Boys?

Efforts to improve mathematics teaching and learning globally have led to the ever-increasing interest in searching for alternative and effective instructional approaches from others.