Educational administration and organization

Students change schools for a variety of reasons, and some students change more often than others -- a reality that can leave them feeling emotionally disconnected and often academically at risk.

Successful Study is an essential guide for students embarking upon an education related Foundation Degree without previous study experience.

Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS, local authorities and schools.

How is your school data performing for you?

As an applied field, educational administration must be learned through experiencing its myriad tasks and challenges.

The Law of Special Education and Non-Public Schools provides an informed explanation of Section 504, the IDEA, their regulations, and the cases that they have generated.

This handbook is intended for faculty and administrators who wish to create a welcoming and safe environment for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students on our campuses.

A new edition - revised and updated with over 100 pages of new material - of the groundbreaking book that brings the principles of organizational learning to today s schools and classrooms.

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War.

The work of Judith Butler has been at the forefront of both theorising the subject as a product of power and explicating possibilities for political alliances and action that are available to such subjects.

Mastering Deputy Headship is essential reading for all aspiring and newly-appointed deputy heads.

This hands-on guide helps teachers understand the complexity and humanity behind school safety and security issues-and their role in promoting, using their professional knowledge and expertise, a safe school environment.

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.

Offering a vital, critical contribution to discussions on current perspectives, practices and assumptions on Islamic education, this book explores the topic through a wide range of diverse perspectives and experiences.

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the topic of accountability and datafication in the governance of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2021 considers global policy dynamics and policy enactment processes.

What its really like to be a parent in the world of higher education, and how academia can make this hard climb a little less steepAcademia has a big problem.

The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning.

This book addresses the costly non-sustainable policies, programs, practices, and priorities currently driving the tuition crisis in American public higher education.

First published in 2009, this ground-breaking work introduced a new field in Africana studies and laid the groundwork for positioning the teachings of Elijah Muhammad in academia.

Early childhood learning is a critical launchpad for every student's social, emotional, and intellectual growth.

Published in 1998.

Originally published in 1991.

This edited volume provides personal narratives of a diverse group of scholars in academia regarding strategies to navigate academia during times of COVID-19 and unrest.

This collection of original essays on virtue ethics and moral education seeks to fill this gap in the recent literature of moral education, combining broader analyses with detailed coverage of:* the varieties of virtue* weakness and integrity* relativism and rival traditions* means and methods of educating the virtuesThe rare collaboration of professional ethical theorists and educational philosophers provides a ground-breaking work and an exciting new focus in a growing area of research.

This book analyses the structural and institutional transformations undergone by doctoral education, and the extent to which these transformations are in line with social, political and doctoral candidates' expectations.

Easy-to-use, authoritative, and flexible, the tools in this book and CD-ROM have been developed over the last 15 years and have been field tested in over 500 schools.

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

This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing.

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

An erosion of confidence in higher education institutions, particularly community colleges, is coming at a time when it can be ill-afforded as education costs increase and federal and public funding decrease.

Can your organization keep up with today's rapid pace of change?

Author Gavin Grift proposes that successful leadership is, at its core, a deeply personal endeavor built on self-awareness.

Navigating the Doctorate in Education is an engaging and honest conversation for anyone considering pursuing a doctorate degree in education.

Whether uncovering breaking stories, finding reliable background information, or finding the right contributors for stories and packages, there is now a wealth of information available to journalists online - but where to begin?

From Technicians to Teachers provides theoretical and practical reasons for suggesting that widespread, international curriculum reform of the post-1990 period need not deprofessionalise teaching.

Rarely, if ever, have business schools experienced change as far-reaching and powerful as during the current wave of globalization.

Future Directions of Educational Change brings together timely discussions on social justice, professional capital, and systems change from some of the leading scholars in the field of education.

Praise for Overloaded and Underprepared Parents, teachers, and administrators are all concerned that America s kids are stressed out, checked out, or both but many have no idea where to begin when it comes to solving the problem.

This book shows how schools can provide services to all members of the community, not just to children of school age.

Teachers share one vital characteristic with students: they function best in settings that are organized enough to provide structure and focus, yet flexible enough to respect developmental and personality differences.

Past research has identified a wide variety of emotions and emotional engagements among school leaders and teachers including passion, excitement and satisfaction.

Dowdall's book offers sample documents for candidates as well as for the search committees, and includes a substantive bibliography.

This book provides an opportunity to teach the exquisiteness of being human to our children.

In this innovative series Education Write Now, ten of education's most inspiring thought-leaders meet for a three-day retreat to think and write collaboratively, and then bring you the top takeaways you need right now to improve your school or classroom.

The current educational agenda identifies learner wellbeing as the key determinant in achievement and outcome.