Educational administration and organization

This is an essential guide for all school leaders, aspiring school leaders and leadership educators to help them incorporate positive psychology in their practice.

Doug Eadie's Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team is both a powerful addition to the K-12 governance literature and a practical guidebook for school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators.

This book provides a set of integrated frameworks-capital, systems, and objects-that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational success, and it contains cases from South East Asia to elaborate this concept.

Given Leopold Zunz's difficult German style and the tight conciseness of his presentation, it is hardly surprising that no English translation of his Die Ritus (1859) has been published.

Inside/Outside is a unique educational resource for those working with young people of secondary school age, providing a variety of tried-and-tested indoor and outdoor lessons and activities to promote and embed emotional literacy.

Executive Intelligence zeros in on leadership smarts and notes that in all lists compiled by leadership experts, head hunters, and boards of directors the one and only trait that appears in all is intelligence.

This book is the fourth in the series on leadership, interprofessional education and practice, following on from Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2014), Leadership and Collaboration: Further Developments for IPE and Collaborative Practice (2015) and Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2016).

All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities.

The Student Newspaper Survival Guide has been extensively updated to cover recent developments in online publishing, social media, mobile journalism, and multimedia storytelling; at the same time, it continues to serve as an essential reference on all aspects of producing a student publication.

How can low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children's schools?

Based on case studies of Chinese teachers in Shanghai and their workplace learning within the context of reform, this book examines how Chinese teachers learn together when they engage in school-based learning activities.

Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science: STEM Students Speak chronicles the best practices of a STEM retention program for underrepresented minority students (URM) at a public university.

This book offers an empirical analysis of how academic peer review panels mediate the traditionally non-academic criterion of societal impact.

In this much-needed book, experts Emily L.

This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents.

Success in the Superintendency will help new and aspiring superintendents gain meaningful, practical information from award winning, experienced superintendents.

This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest ScoreWe want you to succeed on the Math sections of the ACT.

Now in a fully updated seventh edition, The Teaching of Science in Primary Schools provides essential information for students, trainee, and practising teachers about the why, what and how of teaching primary science.

Education and Social Change provides a basic introduction to educational studies, with a viewpoint for decision.

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In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L.

The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photosThis beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research.

There are more than 200,000 teaching assistants(TAs) in the UK.

Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.

This book is a manual on how to become a streetwise and savvy principal.

This landmark volume commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Children's Defense Fund, which has been an uncompromising champion of American youth for all of those years.

Educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on Professional Learning Networks in order to facilitate teacher development and encourage school and school system improvement.

This book describes research undertaken during the Teaching Competence project, a two-year research project which looked at five main areas surrounding this subject.

New technologies provide new ways of delivering the programs and services of higher educational (HE) institutions.

Rapid advancements in mobile computing and communication technology and recent technological progress have opened up a plethora of opportunities.

At no time in the history of public education has there been such a dramatic discrepancy between accelerated standards and expectations and adequate funding for our schools.

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.

Leveling the Playing Field examines the admissions policies of contemporary American colleges and universities in light of the assumption that enhancing the educational opportunities of lower-income and minority students would make American society more just.

Presenting school reform grassroots activists - teachers, parents, and organizers alike - in their own words, the editors document the newly emerged role of digital networks of activists in school reform and analyze their efforts as acts of critical literacy.

Increased competition, declining resources, changing demographics, news media scrutiny, and the importance of public perceptions are reasons why schools and school districts need an effective marketing program.

Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation discusses a key issue for school leaders: motivating teachers to improve learning for students.

The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.

Parents want to work with their children's teachers to help them succeed in school.

This book offers multi-method case studies of course-based tutoring and one-to-one tutorials in developmental first-year writing courses at two universities.

Demands for vouchers, charter schools, the growth of home schooling and the rebirth of private education are creating increased competition for public schools.

New teachers have it tough.

This book investigates key aspects of the development of engaged and entrepreneurial universities.

This book explores the problems involved in 'touching' children in an educational environment.

Mentoring is a hot buzzword these days.

Teaching would be easy if there were clear recipes you could follow every time.