Educational administration and organization

This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers.

School leadership is a complex and challenging profession, with principals working in technological, dynamic and uncertain environments.

Building on best practices and lessons learned, Distributed Leadership in Schools shows educators how to design and implement distributed leadership to effectively address challenges in their schools.

Each of the chapters in this unique book wa written expressly for each major stakeholder group in your school, tailored to their varied needs and experiences.

This workbook, to accompany the Facilitator's Manual, is a resource that will be used throughout the year.

Current Issues in School Leadership examines controversies about, and affecting, school practices.

The perfect companion to help you understand the benefits of flexible working in education and how to make it work in school.

"e;In response to the nationwide attacks on education in the name of educational reform packaged in No Child Left Behind, general analyses and local accounts of these attacks, as well as arguments on behalf of 'authentic educational reform' are badly needed.

Adolescent Realities: Engaging Students in SEL through Young Adult Literature offers a connection between young adult literatures and social and emotional learning.

In A Meeting of the People Roderick MacLeod and Mary Anne Poutanen look at the Protestant public education system and the communities that established, and were served by, its schools, from the origins of public education in 1801 to the dissolution of confessional school boards in 1998.

Homework has a key role to play in strengthening memory, building attainment and helping students to develop transferable, life-long study skills.

The introduction of market forces into higher education is the most crucial issue facing universities and colleges today.

Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about the nature of resistance to organizational change and the effects of champion behavior.

Over the last 40 years the Coombes School in Berkshire, UK, has developed an international reputation for its innovative approach to Nursery and Infant teaching.

Building on the concept of Transpersonal Leadership, Leading Beyond the Ego offers a practical approach to becoming an authentic, ethical, caring and more effective leader.

Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap.

Collecting and analysing data to monitor and challenge school standards is an increasingly important - and unavoidable - aspect of our education system.

Marrying theory and practice, this volume will help principals to maximize human potential, promote quality educational outcome, and practice effective leadership skills.

This book is your roadmap to successfully navigating your child's middle school years!

This exciting new book provides school leaders with a highly effective framework for culturally responsive and equity-driven leadership.

In this book, Johnnie McKinley presents the results of her in-depth study of a group of teachers in grades 3-8 who managed to radically narrow the achievement gap between their black and white students by using a set of culturally responsive strategies in their classrooms.

Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents is the first book to inspire and guide professors and program administrator's proven ways to prepare exemplary principals and superintendents for schools.

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.

Educational Trends Exposed explains and critically reviews eighteen of the most prevalent trends sweeping schools, colleges and universities over the last decade and beyond.

Youth mental health challenges are on the rise.

Policy Patrons offers a rare behind-the-scenes view of decision making inside four influential education philanthropies: the Ford Foundation, the W.

Using original qualitative and quantitative data, Schools Under Siege confronts the many ways, direct and indirect, in which US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies and practices disrupt education.

By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.

While it is quite clear that black and Latino students in general, and poor black and poor Latino students in particular do not do as well as white students in school, the road to real solutions to this very important and vexing problem is far from clear.

The pace of change in education has continued to accelerate since the 1988 Education Act, and even experienced school governors are often bewildered about their duties and responsibilities, as well as what is actually happening in primary and secondary classrooms nowadays.

The 'Get to Know Me' series is made up of resources aimed at children with additional needs and those who support them in the classroom.

Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education asks how publicness is being redefined through the restructuring of nominally public school systems.

What makes a moral person moral?

To effectively cope with school bullying it is essential to understand the issues underpinning student peer group dynamics in the school, classroom and community and this view lies at the heart of the text.

Develop the skills you need to communicate effectively and in ways that motivate your faculty towards success.

Is the end in sight for college tuition hikes?

This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services.

This book brings an international perspective of school leadership, but this time, examines how such leadership can have a positive impact on students considered to be ';unique.

Bringing Hygge into the Early Years is a "e;how-to"e; guide for every early educator who wishes to bring more calmness and balance into their day, in turn, leaving them feeling empowered to teach and live well.

Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy.

Teachers view homework as an opportunity for students to continue learning after the bell rings.

Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education Frameworks that in themselves are complicated to understand, and instructional sequences that lead to deeper learning.