Educational administration and organization

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses.

The newest edition of the bestselling book on educational leadership This expanded and thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology contains the articles, book excerpts, and seminal reports that define and drive the field of educational leadership today.

This book provides a long overdue conceptual framework for integrating evidence-based principles of school psychology leadership across NASP (National Association of School Psychologists) domains of practice.

The book examines how the understanding of the global and the local has changed in response to ongoing reconfigurations between the state and society.

Detailed accounts of two influential initiatives of the 1990s, whose educational and political lessons remain highly relevant: systemic and pedagogic reform in one of Britain's largest cities, and the controversial 'three wise men' government enquiry into primary teaching to which it led.

In the UK and elsewhere, the training of teachers is increasingly seen as a matter of partnership between schools and institutions of higher education.

Following on from the success of Mal Leicester's previous books Stories for Classroom and Assembly and Stories for Inclusive Schools, this book shows how to make use of the learning power of story-time for young children, providing original, themed stories and associated learning activities to promote young children's cognitive and emotional development.

This book explores the current status of primary schools in Rwanda and the history behind their development.

Leading School Culture through Teacher Voice and Agency helps school leaders uncover, understand, and build the skill set to engage teachers in the work of school culture as they navigate the changes needed to improve the achievement for all students.

A collection of essays by presidents of prominent liberal arts colleges and leading intellectuals who reflect on the meaning of educating individuals for leadership and how it can be accomplished in ways consistent with the missions of liberal arts institutions.

School Crisis Response introduces a unique educational approach that provides compelling scenarios for the development of school crisis responders.

Highly effective teachers have something in common: They do simple things extraordinarily well-simple, uncomplicated things on a daily basis.

Building Successful Extracurricular Enrichment Programs is a must-read for educators or administrators who want to develop, implement and maintain engaging out-of-school programs.

Praise for The Handbook of College Athletics and Recreation Administration "e;The Handbook of College Athletics and Recreation Administration provides insiders' in-depth and firsthand perspectives on issues in the contemporary professional administration of intercollegiate athletics and recreation, as well as practical solutions to these issues.

Create a more gender-inclusive climate in your classroom and school.

Im Zuge von Migration, Europäisierung und Globalisierung ist kulturelle Differenz zu einer Bedingung organisationaler Praxis geworden, die als Aufgabe und Ressource organisationaler und individueller Entwicklung bzw.

This edited collection broadens understanding of family-school-community partnerships by focusing on how community groups, educators, and university professors engage with public education to achieve their own goals rather than goals defined by schools, school systems, and governments.

The Teacher's Guide to Scratch - Intermediate is a practical guide for educators preparing moderately complex coding lessons and assignments in their K-12 classrooms.

This new edition of an internationally renowned classic book provides a new comprehensive framework of latest perspectives and findings, fills gaps in the ongoing research, policy and practice, and re-engineers a school-based mechanism for understanding and managing school-based development initiatives.

Reflecting on the meaning and purpose of an education at the mercy of political changes and innovation, this book considers the social, historical, religious and cultural contexts that define education systems.

Originally published in 1981.

Does an effective school really come about through the actions of teachers and school leaders, or does it also require an advantaged student intake?

During his career at the New York Times, Harrison Salisbury served as the bureau chief in post-World War II Moscow, reported from Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and in retirement he witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre firsthand.

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.

Copublished with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this book focuses on individuals involved in K12 mathematics education who seek to help children achieve success.

Too often, students sit compliantly in class and aren't engaged in the learning.

This book is a six part guide to the principalship.

Today's educational system is frozen in time, stuck in traditions of the past.

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer.

This edited volume scrutinises the Nordic dimension within education and how this notion affects, frames and sets direction for school and education in policy, practice and educational research.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how education has developed over the last 70 years within the United Kingdom.

Triage Your School offers school leaders insight into why current attempts to resolve educator burnout often fail and provides meaningful solutions.

An analogy is a comparison that points out the similarities between things that are different in all other respects.

In projektorientierten Unternehmen spielen Projektmanagement-Offices (PMO) eine immer wichtigere, manchmal sogar zentrale Rolle, wenn es darum geht die Projektmanagementaktivitäten des Unternehmens zielgerichtet und effizient auszurichten.

Research shows that by improving the wellbeing of learners, we also improve their learning.

Thrive explores the purpose of education in a transforming world and how young people can thrive in this unpredictable environment.

This book draws on the lessons from one of the most intensive periods of educational reform in any country during recent times.

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.

Vibrant, quality, inclusive, and performing education systems remain a constant aspiration for all countries and educational stakeholders, and are more important than ever given the uncertain and disrupted times in which we live.

In this much-needed book, experts Emily L.

Published Under the Garamond ImprintThe voices in this book reflect the broad diversity of a large urban university community, with contributions from undergraduate and graduate students, teaching assistants, contract and full-time faculty, staff and administrators.

This specially commissioned collection of perspectives offers an analysis of the new organisation of the teaching profession - reconstructed around the notion of performance and the implications of a performance culture.

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

Education leadership has been subject to a period of turmoil with rapid social change, political demands for excellence, economic pressures for austerity and the influence of technology impacting on leadership roles in multiple ways.

No other generation in history has received as much coverage as the Millennial generation.

This text will be a valuable resource for counseling students and educators to assist in the incorporation of leadership and advocacy training into the counseling curriculum, based on the new standards set forth by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).

Since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, there has been an increasing recognition globally that children need to have more say in their education.