Educational administration and organization

Creating Learning Settings examines the design and implementation of learning settings informed by the newest, most expansive insights into how people learn in the post-industrial age.

Like the bestselling first edition, this introductory textbook succinctly presents concepts and theories of educational leadership and organizational behavior and immediately applies them to problems of practice.

Dieses anwendungsnahe Grundlagenbuch erläutert den Stand von Wissenschaft und Technik zum gesamten Prozess der Personalauswahl: von A wie Anforderungsanalyse bis Z wie Zuverlässigkeit.

This book explores school processes that shape student learning and principals' leadership.

Tom Sherrington's 2017 book The Learning Rainforest won rave reviews for its brilliant weaving of research evidence into a powerful vision of how education can transform lives, even in the most challenging settings.

Educational Leadership brings together innovative perspectives on the crucial role of theory and theorising in educational leadership at a time when the multiple pressures of marketisation, competition and system fragmentation dominate the educational landscape.

Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides ready-made advice and support for classroom professionals and can be used, read and adapted to suit the busy everyday lives of teachers working in primary schools today.

An interdisciplinary survey text on leadership theory grounded using critical perspectives Leadership Theory is designed specifically for use in undergraduate or graduate classrooms providing a comprehensive overview of essential theories informing the leadership studies knowledgebase.

Improving Behaviour Management in Your School provides a common sense approach to understanding the causes and triggers of students' challenging behaviour and equips teachers and school leaders with simple tools that can be easily implemented in any school.

'Showing how critical thinking and local democracy can be a spur to very real educational development within schools that are facing severe challenges, this book provides us with one very valuable contemporary resource of hope.

Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has become a globalized institution.

This book introduces the concept and practices of Total Inclusivity to universities around the world.

Foreword by Chris SturgisShifting to a competency-based curriculum allows educators to revolutionize education by replacing traditional, ineffective systems with a personalized, learner-centered approach.

This edited collection addresses a subject which is topical not only in Britain, where there has been a spate of laws and regulations affecting the structure and content of education, but also in developed and developing countries, where the overriding motivation in many cases has been to raise economic performance.

Bringing together a mix of researchers and practitioners, With the Best of Intentions examines the major goals of recent philanthropic efforts and looks at some of the key lessons--for educators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leaders--of philanthropic contributions to schools and school systems.

Passing the Torch describes the remarkable achievements of public university students from marginalized populations who transcend oppression and poverty to become powerful leaders for social justice.

Originally published in 1988, Appraising Teachers in Schools considers and provides advice on the introduction of staff appraisal in schools.

Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe explores how neoliberal values are imprinted onto educational spaces and practices, and by consequence, fundamentally reshape how we come to understand the educational experience at the school or system level.

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In light of rapid advances in technology and changes in students' learning styles, Leading Learning for Digital Natives offers much-needed new tools for guiding effective instruction in the classroom.

Offering clear strategies rooted in research and expert recommendations, the new edition of First Aid for Teacher Burnout empowers teachers to prevent and recover from burnout while finding success at work in a sustainable way.

Instructional Rounds in Action is an invaluable guide for those involved in implementing instructional rounds as the foundation and framework for systemic improvement in schools.

Written in a down-to-earth and people-first style, this book is for principals and aspiring school leaders.

The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by conflict between church and state.

Becoming Buoyant shows teachers how they can help students to bounce back from daily setbacks and challenges.

This book proposes the new concept of "e;comprehensive global competence"e; in order to explore how to advocate, cultivate, and implement global competence at China's higher education institutions.

Want to make your students more responsible for their own learning?

This book provides an overview anddiscussion of the evidence base of effective school inspections; reflecting on issuesof validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to schooleffectiveness research, unintended consequences and emergent roles andresponsibilities of Inspectorates of Education.

Re-visioning Community Collegestraces the development and generational evolution of community colleges, explores the past success and future capacity of community colleges as disruptive innovators, and analyzes this sector's unique advantages and vulnerabilities.

This book presents a critical analysis of the corporate university.

Schools around the world use online programs like Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts to improve students' reading comprehension of real books, but how can such software be used most effectively?

Recognizing that education systems have been temporarily paralyzed in the past and likely will in the future-whether it's because of a natural disaster or a pandemic-this important volume offers critical insights about how schools can effectively carry forward the mission of educating all children even in the face of system turbulence and disruption.

We hear all the time how American children are falling behind their global peers in various basic subjects, but particularly in math.

Exploring Leadership and Ethical Practice through Professional Inquiry is wonderfully constructed to prompt us to analyze the perplexing problems that inevitably occur when people work in the same institution, through the visions, theories, and moral principles that underlie schools at their best.

Rob Carpenter took a school from Special Measures to Outstanding in less than two years and firmly believes that the quality of teaching and leadership holds the key to raising standards in our schools today.

This work is concerned with appraising the contemporary ethical impact of lifelong learning ideology and advocacy on education, through focusing on trends in educational policy and management that flow from the ideology.

Sparking Change to Promote Equity illuminates the skills and practices that campus and district-level leaders of gifted and advanced programs need to encourage and support minoritized and marginalized student success in today's classrooms.

This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries.

Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its contributors, this text empowers pre-service teachers to become effective and reflective practitioners.

This volume provides a comprehensive and evenhanded overview of the escalating college affordability crisis in the United States.

This new book on school attendance and behaviour brings an international flavour to the field, with contributions on some of the latest empirical research and thinking from around the world.

Shame is one of a family of self-conscious emotions that includes embarrassment, guilt, disgrace, and humiliation.

Helping College Students Find Purpose Today's college students are demanding that their educational experiences address the core questions of meaning and purpose.

The Nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are more relevant today than ever before.

In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M.

This book introduces theories of educational leadership and management and provides examples of their translation into practice.

This original book shows you how to understand and collaborate with the most difficult members of your staff.