Take an in depth look at technology trends and the practices, possibilities, and direction needed to integrate a technology-open mindset into the work of a student affairs educator.
How online learning could help control the exploding cost of higher educationTwo of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of online learning.
School business officials are known for their innovative, meaningful contributions to the improvement of their profession and the efficiency of school entities.
This book presents how neoliberal trends, as reflected in the grouplised school structure, affect teachers' professional learning and daily practice, and discusses how teacher agency is enabled and constrained at both individual and collective levels.
This book helps you make sense of the data your school district collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quantitative data.
This book provides school administrators, school-based mental health professionals, and other educational professionals with the framework and tools needed to establish a comprehensive safe learning environment.
Provides information to help administrators organize school structure, advance effective techniques, increase worker satisfaction, and promote productivity.
How to be an Outstanding Primary Middle Leader is a compendium of research, advice, anecdotes and practical tips to help middle leaders excel in this complex and demanding role, without compromising their mental or physical health.
Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage.
In this volume, the authors contend that teaching and learning must be viewed as communal work, whether conducted in one classroom, with colleagues at a programmatic level, or when tackled on a university-wide scale.
Focused on preparing educators to teach African American students, this straightforward and teacher-friendly text features a careful balance of published scholarship, a framework for culturally relevant and critical pedagogy, research-based case studies of model teachers, and tested culturally relevant practical strategies and actionable steps teachers can adopt.
Penser la formation à l'enseignement au service de l'amélioration des compétences professionnelles, voilà l'enjeu de la professionnalisation des enseignants.
This book provides new perspectives on Assessment for Learning (AfL), on the challenges encountered in its implementation, and on the diverse ways of meeting these challenges.
This volume offers a holistic, empirically grounded examination of the factors which influence educational leaders' ethical judgments in their day-to-day work in schools.
The most complex social challenges - such as post-secondary access and success for under-represented students, diversification of the workforce, poverty, environmental degradation, and global health - exceed the problem-solving capacity of single organizations or societal sectors.
The keystones for provision in the new era of Further Education will be flexibility of response, open access, equality of opportunity, and valuing and accrediting alternative ways of learning - all linked together within the concepts of providing life-long learning opportunities.
By sharing the collective experiences of Latinas in Higher Education, this book provides a diverse range of empowering testimonios from Chingonas living on their own terms, who are defining professionalism for themselves.
Teaching is becoming increasingly complex in the 21st Century, creating a need for more sophisticated frameworks to support teachers' professional learning.
In this book, Paul Clarke argues that in order to live sustainably we need to learn how to live and flourish in our environment in a manner that uses finite resources with ecologically informed discretion.
This collection of chapters from established thinkers and emerging scholars provides a series of unique insights into collaboration between schools and the means by which the policy context influences such activity.
"e;This volume: * focuses on education reform and professional development processes intended to prepare and develop prospective and practicing educational leaders into leadership positions; * examines cultural, political, legal, economic and social justice issues that affect leaders while serving in the role of educational leader/learner; * examines the various ways in which educational leadership, politics, policy and reform are interconnected; * focus on the critical significance of transforming education leadership agendas if educational leaders are to truly change the face of how meaningful leadership development and preparation is planned and implemented for effectiveness; * introduces various frameworks for restructuring leadership and learning including the need for collaborative and community-based efforts for redesigning, planning, and implementing leadership development programs; * encourages interdisciplinary educational leaders to re-examine who they are as leaders of learning, as learners of leadership, and life-long learners.
Filled with wisdom and inspiration to help you become a better school leader, this book shows you how to transform your school into a Learning Organization.
This book examines reform in American education over the past fifty years and against this backdrop presents a compelling analysis of why contemporary voucher plans and charter schools have yet to fulfill the expectations of their advocates.
The internet has made the possibility of sharing information about others and their products and services more readily available at significantly less cost than any other form of media exposure.
Written by experienced consultants, this book explores the key themes surrounding the role of the School Business Manager, and offers guidance for dealing with the practical issues of the job.
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.
