`This is a zippy read arising out of the international project "e;effective leadership in a time of change"e;, which grapples with the nature and practice of leadership (as opposed to management or administration) in schools' - Times Educational SupplementWho really runs the school - head teachers or governors?
In Anchor Your Vision: Navigational Tools and Strategies for Every Stage in a PLC at Work(R), authors Creswell, McClain, and Traicoff guide educators to create, live, and achieve their mission, vision, collective commitments, and goals.
Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.
This book is a practical approach to insuring financial sustainability of US colleges, presented through the lens of organizational strategic thinking.
Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change.
Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring early career teachers' attempts at enacting Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in their everyday teaching practices.
Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement.
Reclaiming Radical Ideas in Schools provides support for every primary school in the provision of Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC), the teaching of British values and preparation for life in modern Britain.
The field of education is rife with calls to action and for research to improve higher-level thinking and learning outcomes in primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key article, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.
As its title implies, this book has a deceptively simple mission: to prepare would-be school leaders to draw upon a variety of theoretical perspectives when thinking about schools and schooling.
Covering a timely topic, which is more and more frequently in the news, this book offers vignettes that will sharpen the reader's ability to recognize and respond to difficult situations sparked by identity differences among faculty, staff, and students in college and university settings.
Mit dem Ziel der Steigerung von Bildungsqualität werden sowohl für das Schulsystem als auch für die Elementarbildung - also für die Kindertageseinrichtungen als Teil der Jugendhilfe - neue Instrumente der Qualitätssteuerung entwickelt.
Called to Serve Over the past several years, veteran enrollment in universities, community colleges, and vocational programs has increased dramatically.
Marrying theory and practice, this volume will help principals to maximize human potential, promote quality educational outcome, and practice effective leadership skills.
This book focuses on the need of leaders in professional and personal realms to understand the importance of innovative thinking to safeguard sustainability and enhance satisfaction and motivation among stakeholders in organizations.
Advocates for integrating liberal arts with management in a new undergraduate curriculum blending technical and analytic acumen with creativity, critical thinking, and ethical intelligence.
Online teaching and learning has surged in recent years, and faculty who normally teach in face-to-face settings are increasingly called upon to teach blended, hybrid, and fully online courses.
By providing a thorough grounding in the theory behind behaviour management, followed by suggestions for successful strategies to use in the classroom, this book gives the reader the confidence to manage the challenging behaviour of children and young people in educational contexts.
In this revised and updated 4th edition, Discipline with Dignity provides in-depth guidance for implementing a proven approach to classroom management that can help students make better choices and teachers be more effective.
Today, many public schools, especially rural and inner-city areas, are so fraught with violence, so impersonal, and so poorly funded that they drive students away rather than inspire them to learn.
Facilitating a Collegial Department in Higher Education Written for department chairs and deans, this well-researched resource offers a practical reference for how to create and sustain a more civil and harmonious departmental culture.
An incisive study of the mechanisms reinforcing the underrepresentation of women of color in STEM fields and a call for systemic change to address the imbalance.
Originally published in 1989, this is a book about managing a real primary school - but, unlike most management books, it places the child at the centre of the exercise.
