A unique, comparative survey of community-based research within a higher education context, featuring some of the top scholars in the field, this book brings together a global range of experiences with community-based research and engages the leaders in the field worldwide to set out visions for future directions, practices, and developments.
Daniel Goldmann rekonstruiert als zentrales Phänomen schulischer Entwicklungspraxis eine hohe Differenz- und Konfliktvermeidung unter Lehrkräften, die die schulentwicklungsbezogenen Aushandlungen stark limitiert.
''Bildungsstandards'' sind seit dem politischen Erfolg der Pisa-Studien zu einem zentralen Steuerungsinstrument bildungs- und schulpolitischer Entwicklungen geworden.
Designed to be used with the The Student Leadership Challenge or the Student Leadership Practices Inventory, this workbook will help students go deeper into the actual practice of leadership, guiding them in better understanding and embodying The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in a meaningful and relevant way.
As the role and expectations of the superintendency change, the pressures also tend to change and become more complex, thus the need for a collaborative relationship between the superintendent and the school board intensifies.
This book teaches a process that will help both teachers and administrators plan for and conduct meetings that are meaningful, useful, and that generate results.
Using a rich array of archival and quantitative sources, and oral testimony from ex-students across Canada, Axelrod explores the characteristics and significance of university life during a trying decade.
Social Theory and Health Education brings together health education scholarship with a diverse range of social theories to demonstrate the value and impact of their application to associated health and education contexts.
A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the education advisor to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders focusses on major issues relating to the continuing national and international discourse on curriculum leadership, and highlights the vital role of middle leaders in schools.
This resource provides mathematics educators with tools for conducting Collaborative Lesson Research (CLR), a form of Lesson Study developed out of the original Japanese Lesson Study and intended to improve student and teacher learning.
Social change and cultural division in America have accelerated in this century and further intensified with the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd incident, and the two recent presidential elections.
The Essentials of Finance for School Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Problem-Solving and Meeting Challenges is carefully authored to provide supervisory practitioners at the school building level with the vital tools of school finance literacy alongside an understanding of school finance policy that impacts the everyday operation of today's public schools.
Written in a tradition that encourages teachers to see classrooms as laboratories and themselves as artists, intellectuals and researchers, Teaching Writing While Standing on One Foot is a compelling work that will enthrall readers as well as give them knowledge, hope, and inspiration.
Using a form of systems thinking, this book analyzes K-12 education as a complex, "messy" system that must be tackled as a whole and provides a series of heuristics to help those involved in the education mess to improve the system as a whole.
As Asian education systems increasingly take on a stronger presence on the global educational landscape, of special interest is an understanding of the ways in which many of these states direct their schools towards higher achievement.
This handbook provides the Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) co-ordinator in a school with everything that they need to deliver good practice in this subject.
Inside/Outside is a unique educational resource for those working with young people of secondary school age, providing a variety of tried-and-tested indoor and outdoor lessons and activities to promote and embed emotional literacy.
Since 1976, increased attention has been paid to the diminishing numbers of Black males in higher education, and rightly so: the total numerical enrollments of Black female undergraduates has outstripped their male counterparts by a factor of nearly 2 to 1.
This book is undertaken by the author who has personally walked the journey of a classroom teacher, middle leader and school principal in the Singapore education system.
Secondary English for Generation Alpha seeks to promote a humane, responsive and creative pedagogy for English that will develop and enrich understanding and enjoyment of language in all its forms (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and help students develop into successful members of their home and wider communities.
Colleges Worth Your Money: A Guide to What Americas Top Schools Can Do for You is an invaluable guide for students making the crucial decision of where to attend college when our thinking about higher education is radically changing.
If you are a leader at midlife trying to manage your career, your children, and aging parents, all while trying to move through an ever-complicated post-pandemic workplace, this book is for you.
