Educational administration and organization

Learn how to effectively lead and make an impact in early childhood and primary school settings.

SERVANT LEADERSHIP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION "e;Given the myriad of complex problems facing higher education, it is difficult to imagine that an administrator at any level of the institution could be effective without engaging in servant leadership.

`This is an important book, not least because OfTED may well have changed English schools more substantially than any previous curriculum development or assessment development programme' - Mentoring & TutoringThis book looks at the relationship between school inspection and school improvement.

Failing Boys?

Why has successful school reform been so difficult to achieve, despite decades of well-intentioned efforts, endless rhetoric, and billions of dollars of investment?

Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging from the era of urban crisis-desegregation, white flight, political conflict, and economic decline.

This thought-provoking text stems from the voices of young people in secondary schools, and what they want from their PSHE education.

This text aims to connect school organization theory with the school effectiveness knowledge base.

Join the conversation between evaluation and facilitation.

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.

In Diverse Families, Desirable Schools, Mira Debs offers a richly detailed study of public Montessori schools, which make up the largest group of progressive schools in the public sector.

The world needs great individual educational changemakers capable of identifying problems and creating bold, scalable solutions.

As a school administrator, instructional coach, or teacher leader, you know that reflective teachers are effective teachers.

FAQs for TAs is a friendly and accessible guide covering the core questions that both new and existing teaching assistants may have about their jobs.

Using case studies and relevant literature, this book illustrates the challenges to legitimate, Shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces.

This volume reviews the research in the field of school effectiveness and improvement.

Despite deans playing critical roles in education, little is known about the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for the job, or the practical dilemmas they face on an almost daily basis.

Discover how educators, researchers, IT support, and administrators can transform education inside and out, now and for the future.

Teachers are the most important determinant of the quality of schools.

Gaining on the Gap: Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice serves as a guide along the journey taken by six individuals who each played a role in moving a school system along a path where race would not be a predictor for academic success.

Our nation is rocked by ideological divisions threatening both the work of educators and the core of our democracy.

THE ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENT CHAIR This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles.

Jumping from the Ivory Tower demonstrates the positive results that occur when colleges work with communities to develop students with a sense of place.

The time has passed when learning was identified purely as a process involving the ability to store and recall knowledge and facts, and the competence to produce them when required.

Ask practically any academic department chair why they do not have more African Americans among faculty members and they generally respond with stock stories or folktales, which stimulated the title of this volume.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, H.

This book displays tools and templates for planning, organizing, and monitoring a beginning principal's daily tasks.

The collapse of communism and the adoption of parliamentary democracy led to rapid and dramatic educational change in countries formerly under the control of the Soviet Union.

500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest ScoreWe want you to succeed on the English and Reading sections of the ACT.

This book shows how principals can foster collegiality, provide mentorship, offer rewards, and otherwise create conditions so that teachers will be internally motivated.

Originally published in 1998.

To address urgent challenges and drive continuous improvement effectively, school board members, superintendents, and school leaders must develop strong school board/superintendent teams.

Ronny Jahn geht der Frage nach, was einen Manager im Finanzwesen von einem Schulleiter unterscheidet.

Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism.

Integrating coverage of the most important knowledge base, research, and practice in the field, this book prepares educators for the challenging role of special education leader.

Under increasing pressure in the face of teacher evaluation systems and accountability measures, schools must focus on those teachers that exhibit marginal to incompetent teaching behaviors in their classrooms.

"e;Education is a process of inheritance and innovation.

Organizations and societies are facing extreme challenges that require action (IPCC, 2021).

This book is the result of several years of research, curriculum development, and testing of a consumer and entrepreneurial literacy educational program for l- literate, low-income adults in India.

"e;In this book, I try my best to contribute my observations and reflections on Chinese educational issues, to raise awareness and inspire confidence and hope.

Building on the author's work in The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists, this book provides 101 new and revised reading lists created in consultation with teachers and public librarians-an invaluable resource for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature.

A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration.

Reforming Education Systems for Inclusion and Equity addresses the universal challenge of developing forms of education that make a difference for all children and young people, no matter their characteristics or backgrounds.

This fascinating book focuses on those who are most affected by changes in education policy and systems-the pupils.

The surprising history of education technology and its political, financial, and social impact on higher education and our worldFrom AI tutors who ensure individualized instruction but cannot do math to free online courses from elite universities that were supposed to democratize higher education, claims that technological innovations will transform education often fall short.

Greater student mobility, increasing demand for access to tertiary education, as well as policy changes have spurred rapid expansion of the global higher education sector.

Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement.