Educational administration and organization

Learn how to make instructional coaching more empowering and effective by supporting teachers as learners and leaders in their own classrooms.

This book examines the educational role of three international organizations created as part of the post-World War II multilateral architecture: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

New Public Management and the Reform of Education addresses complex and dynamic changes to public services by focusing on new public management as a major shaper and influencer of educational reforms within, between and across European nation states and policy actors.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

What type of questioning invigorates and sustains productive discussions?

How do some students manage to excel in their studies and be popular while other high achievers are treated as social outcasts?

In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocationPerhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching.

How have the school effectiveness and school improvement movements arrived where they are today?

Internationalization of higher education is a concept that is currently making its way to every corner of the globe.

Drawing on an extensive study of persistent absentees, their families and their schools, David Galloway explores the prevalence of absence from schools and the underlying causes.

Have you ever thought research is boring?

100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Supporting Children with SEND is a must-have resource filled with fun, creative and engaging multi-sensory activities and strategies to best support the learning and development of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), across the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Educational Research and Policy: How do They Relate?

Today's teens immerse themselves in the world of technology as never before.

Dramatic shifts in the demographic and labor diversity of American faculty have pressed institutions and the profession to clarify who the 'real' faculty are, from tenured to adjunct faculty.

Teachers Leading Educational Reform explores the ways in which teachers across the world are currently working together in professional learning communities (PLCs) to generate meaningful change and innovation in order to transform pedagogy and practice.

Originally published in 1983.

INCREASING PERSISTENCE "e;Of all the books addressing the puzzle of student success and persistence, I found this one to be the most helpful and believe it will be extremely useful to faculty and staff attempting to promote student success.

This book describes the practices of principals who develop and maintain purposeful learning communities.

The International Guide to Student Achievement brings together and critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today.

This practical and accessible resource contains a wealth of discussion sheets and games to help victims of bullying reflect and talk about their experiences and feelings using the internationally familiar Blob figures.

This practical workbook supports teachers seeking to sensitively understand and respond to the opinions and perceptions of critical stakeholders in student learning and development; pupil voice, parent voice, and professional voice are introduced and explored.

A sweeping assessment of the state of higher education today from former Harvard president Derek BokHigher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts.

This book reviews the need for increased training in the food industry in order to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western Europe and the USA.

In a professional learning community, isolation is the enemy of school improvement.

The way we think about things matters just as much as what we think about things.

Great staff make great schools, and by choosing your staff carefully and helping them to develop, you will make a significant impact on the lives of the young people in your care.

A global exploration of formal and non-formal education provision to refugees and asylum seekers in refugee camps, and in schools and universities of host countries.

From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate.

There has always been considerable debate about the best solutions to deal with disruptive behaviour in schools.

Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs.

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

This book is the second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership.

Despite representing a majority of the college student population, a surprising lack of research has focused on the unique issues and needs of commuter students.

Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers, governments and future employers around the world, and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic for all young people, ensuring they leave education able to contribute to the global creative economy.

This volume contains a general introduction to the whole series, followed by seven chapters giving most of the quantitative information in compact form.

Using case studies from eighteen secondary schools the authors analyse the effectiveness of a range of management styles and offer practical advice on how to effectively manage resources within a school setting.

As we become more and more of a global trading world, the challenges of leading and managing within this turbulent environment and its associated, complex, interconnected markets and disconnected relationships are indisputable, so just how far can any change requirements be practically engaged with, whilst also keeping the employee at the organisation's central core?

This book covers the most important aspects of these essential issues, such as: how and when to budget how to audit your school's facilities how to manage, maintain and improve your premises ways to gain extra funding for your premises what are the main Health and Safety issues, what are the common pitfalls, and what are the policies you really need.

This book introduces and explores the nature of large scale reform, and offers a fresh insight into the importance of social capital and professional development leadership for teachers and school management.

Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, this expanded text provides new insights into the successful, sustained implementation of Full-Service Community Schools (FSCSs) in the United States.

Learn how to engage the diverse families of English learners (ELs) and immigrants with the effective, practical approaches in this book.

The 1988 Education Reform Act meant that schools had to manage themselves in ways which satisfied the world outside the school gates.

Educational leaders are seeing the increasing need for practical transformative models and theories to address academic, cultural, and socio-economic gaps separating learners at all levels of the educational system.

Why and how American colleges and universities need to change in order to meet the nation's pressing needsAmerican higher education faces some serious problems-but they are not the ones most people think.

Embarking on a journey to become a counselor does more than prepare a person for a new and rewarding career.