Educational administration and organization

What does formative assessment look like, and when should I use it?

One of Americas greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

2017 Texas Association for Gifted and Talented Legacy Scholar Book Award2017 National Association of Gifted Children Scholar Book of the Year AwardIn Excellence Gaps in Education, Jonathan A.

Kinder lernen nicht in kleinen Schrittchen, nicht der Reihe nach, nicht gleichzeitig und schon gar nicht das Gleiche.

Recent years have seen dramatic developments in the way schools are structured and much greater emphasis placed on managing your school effectively.

The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability.

Welcome to Life Under Compulsion How do you raise a child who can sit with a good book and read?

The Education Reform Act of 1988 had enormous implications for the management of secondary schools.

High Leverage Practices for Inclusive Classrooms offers a set of practices that are integral to the support of student learning, and that can be systematically taught, learned, and implemented by those entering the teaching profession.

Leading for Learning Written by acclaimed school reform advocate Phillip C.

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African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

This book helps readers to improve the development of ICT capability through understanding the factors at work in whole school contexts.

Increasingly, personnel administrative duties within schools have been delegated to the local school principal.

School Choice at the Crossroads compiles exemplary, policy-relevant research on school choice options-voucher, private, charter, and traditional public schools-as they have been implemented across the nation.

Drawing on research from the fields of neuroscience, faculty development, work productivity, positive psychology, and resilience, The Peak Performing Professor is filled with techniques, strategies, and practical tools for managing the complexities of academic life while maximizing professional potential.

This book describes the beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes of great athletic coaches.

Human-Centred Education (HCE) radically rethinks the aims of education, the nature of learning, and the relationship between individuals in schools.

Providing a comprehensive review of pressing issues roiling American college campuses today, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars alike.

Building a Successful Security Sales organization is more than possible if you have the right information, tools, and work ethic to make it work.

During the last couple of decades, there has been an expansion in a number of related and overlapping fields producing evidence of covert activities: toxic cultures, destructive leadership styles, micropolitics, ethical problems in organisations and administration, abusive power and authority, and many other topics of dysfunctional management and leadership studies that frequently make reference to secretive and deceptive behaviour.

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A visionary blueprint for educational reform that envisions school systems as opportunity engines, preparing young citizens for future workplace success, civic engagement, and fulfilling lives.

This book provides the reader with a fresh and comprehensive approach to both considering and implementing an uncommon governance practice that emphasizes a lasting, effective, and a sustaining relationship between the board and president.

Originally published in 1995.

This book explains the strategic appeal of innovation and entrepreneurship education based on the systematic analysis of the key characteristics and constraints of China's economic transformation and upgrading.

Leaders in the Labyrinth sheds light on the ways presidents conduct the influence and power of their office, especially in the use of their pulpits, how they navigate issues of political correctness, and how they hold the center of the university together in contentious times and against competing ideological forces.

This volume addresses personalisation, a key education policy in England and a key issue identified by the OECD for the schools of the future.

Great Relationships and Sex Education is an innovative and accessible guide for educators who work with young people to create and deliver Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) programmes.

In a high-stakes and testing-focused school climate, principals strive to develop and refine the skills that will make them effective instructional leaders.

Leadership in universities is physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding work.

Learning to Educate: Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries is a practical and strategic guide for education leaders and others who want to do more to improve the quality of curriculum, learning, teaching, and assessment.

Educational Psychology Series: Evaluating the Quality of Learning: The SOLO Taxonomy (Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome) focuses on the approaches, methodologies, and techniques employed in the valuation of the quality of learning.

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Being a teenager can be tough.

Originally published in 1991.

Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant.

Misinformation and propaganda abound about the quality of teacher preparation in the United States.

This book highlights the need to develop new educational perspectives in which multilingualism is valorised and strategically used in settings and contexts of instruction and learning.

Are you an academic leader or considering taking on a leadership position in the academy?

If you want to tell more stories in the classroom but lack the confidence to do so.

The challenge of proper school finance goes beyond having a balanced budget to finding strategies that maximize money to improve schools and equalize student achievement.

School violence is a burning issue these days.

Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process.

This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

In this ground-breaking book, Gerald Grace addresses the dilemmas facing Catholic education in an increasingly secular and consumer-driven culture.