Educational administration and organization

How do you know which college is right for you?

Sprechen ist die direkteste, unmittelbarste und deutlichste Möglichkeit, mit seinen Mitmenschen in Kontakt zu treten.

The responsibility for facilitating effective continuing professional development (CPD) is based firmly in schools.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

School as Learning Community (SLC), or Lesson Study for Learning Community (LSLC) represents an approach to lesson study that emerged in Japan in the 1990s and which has been studied intensively by educators and researchers worldwide to establish democratic learning communities for teachers and students in schools.

Higher education in the UK is in crisis.

Help your teams get better faster.

Teaching in the Built Environment: Creating Transformational Active Learning Experiences offers a blueprint for teaching success from an award-winning team of educators, with classroom-ready strategies for maximizing undergraduate learning in built environment disciplines.

At last!

Teachers and governments all agree that if you wish to raise educational standards then it's imperative to improve school attendance, and yet an average of around ten per cent of secondary pupils are missing school on a daily basis.

The failure of ninth grade students at the state and national level is astronomical and the percentage of students who are retained in the grade or drop out of school as a result has not changed significantly in the past ten years.

Teacher identity is shaped by recognition or its absence, often by misrecognition of others.

In her renowned and provocative essay, The Crisis in Education, Hannah Arendt observed that a 'crisis becomes a disaster only when we respond to it with preformed judgements, that is, with prejudices'.

Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Accessible and practical, the fifth edition of School-Community Relations provides aspiring educational leaders with the skills to establish strong systems for communicating with their various school constituencies and to improve public relations at all levels.

In the early twentieth century, university administrators and educators regarded bodily health as a marker of an individual’s moral and mental strength and as a measure of national vitality.

Effective Steps Toward School Enhancement: Turning Around High Needs Schools is an essential guide for enhancing, improving, and turning around schools.

In a very real sense, Michael Lodato has been working on this handbook for over 45 years - starting in 1968 when, as a new CEO of a small consulting company, he attended a seminar on strategic planning at UCLA.

Originally published in 1989.

Teach students to write about math so they can improve their conceptual understanding in authentic ways.

Based on the authors' experiences in academe over seventy-five years, The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations discusses a number of issues that confront America's higher education scene today.

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems.

DEVELOPMENT FOR ACADEMIC LEADERS In addition to their other duties, academic leaders are expected to network with potential donors and to be productive and enthusiastic fundraisers.

America is now in the second generation of debate on school choice.

Originally published in 1995.

Co-published with UCEA, this exciting new textbook is the first to tackle the ISLLC Standard #6-the political context of education.

Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations.

This book deals with effective school leadership and its essential role in improving the efficiency and equity of schooling.

In this book, Robin Brooke-Smith explores the dynamics of schools as complex organisations.

This work is concerned with appraising the contemporary ethical impact of lifelong learning ideology and advocacy on education, through focusing on trends in educational policy and management that flow from the ideology.

Which curricular and cocurricular practices promote student learning and persistence?

Emerging from a radical pedagogical tradition, Education and the Production of Space deepens and extends Henri Lefebvre's insights on revolutionary praxis by revealing the intimate relationship between education and the production of space.

Friendship and Educational Choice provides a unique insight into how young people go about making decisions about their educational options and the subtle, yet crucial, influence of friends and peers on these processes.

This book details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and discussion of how their behavior was informed by leadership theory.

As a principal, you know how challenging it is to build a dedicated staff, encourage parental support, help students get excited about learning, and create a working school culture.

In Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care, Nawal Qarooni invites us to step beyond school-centric, one-off events and practices to create more authentic, engaging collaborations with caregivers.

Dieser Praxis-Leitfaden unterstützt Führungskräfte von Kindertagesstätten (Krippe, Kindergarten, Hort) bei der Bewältigung der heutigen Führungsherausforderungen (Wertschätzungskrise in der Frühpädagogik; demografischer Wandel; Kinder und Eltern als herausfordernde Anspruchsgruppen).

This edited collection addresses a subject which is topical not only in Britain, where there has been a spate of laws and regulations affecting the structure and content of education, but also in developed and developing countries, where the overriding motivation in many cases has been to raise economic performance.

The Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in the U.

Exploring issues of student agency, equity, assessment, teaching, management, teacher leadership, and use of technology, this book provides strategies, tips, and guidance for enacting innovative change in today's schools.

Originally published in 1990.

I acknowledge a deep debt of gratitude to my coeditors: my wife Irene, and my friend and colleague Tom Draper.

In seiner empirischen Studie untersucht Michael Kühn die Vorgehensweisen von Führungskräften bei der Bewältigung von krisenhaft zugespitzten Entscheidungssituationen.

In this lively and practical book, seasoned educator Jonathan Cassie shines a spotlight on gamification, an instructional approach that's revolutionizing K-12 education.

While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood.

The failure of ninth grade students at the state and national level is astronomical and the percentage of students who are retained in the grade or drop out of school as a result has not changed significantly in the past ten years.