Educational administration and organization

Este libro ha sido escrito en Uruguay, pero pensando en los docentes de toda América Latina, maestros y profesores de educación primaria y media.

Break free to make real change for yourself and others Have you ever felt like your progress was being blocked, not just by your own circumstances, but by the presence and actions of others?

In his latest book, Joel Spring covers major political, economic and social issues affecting US and global education policy today.

Originally published in 1993.

This insightful guide shows professionals how to collaborate with parents and guardians of children with disabilities in empathic, respectful, knowledgeable, and supportive ways.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various models and practices of implementing project management in schools, and conceptualizes the processes of adaptation and development of project management curricula within the unique context of the contemporary school environment.

This book provides students guidance on how to deal with the project-based instruction form.

What we call "e;motivation"e; in school is really a decision students make to invest in our classrooms.

WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AT SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES presents an empirical study of the writing programs at one hundred small, private liberal arts colleges.

Learn, do, and lead with the guidance of Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC at Work?

This important book is an exploration of the ways parents, teachers and academics view the development and schooling of young children with disabilities.

Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world.

The Educator's Guide to Substance Abuse Prevention is for educators and other school personnel who are concerned about student drug use and school violence.

Deleuze & Guattari, Politics and Education mobilizes Deleuzian-Guattarian philosophy as a revolutionary alternative to the lingering forms of transcendence, identity politics, and nihilism endemic to Western thought.

If students haven't developed the brain-based skills to focus, catch and correct errors, identify cause-and-effect relationships, and more, they can't make sense of lessons.

"e;With Learning to Relearn, Sarfo-Mensah has written himself into the canon of scholars who boldly advocate for social justice in schools.

This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental choice and competitive pressures on schools.

Challenging the idea that the corporate 'war' against childhood obesity is normal, necessary, or harmless, this book exposes healthy lifestyles education as a form of mis-education that shapes how students learn about health, corporations, and consumption.

This special edition presents a snapshot from around the world of the current state of the research devoted to the issues of professional development of teachers.

Singapore's education system has come to international attention due to its commendable performance on the Worldwide Educating for the Future Index produced by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), as well as the students' continual sterling performance in internationally benchmarked tests such as Trends in International Math and Science Survey (TIMSS), and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

Intended for courses on leadership, practicing managers, consultants, and practitioners, this approachable guide teaches readers about how to become a leader.

An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving.

Providing insight into the currently applied models, basic definitions and functions of work discipline systems within organisations, this book analyses the risks, limitations and the potential of developing organisational discipline structures.

This book helps you make sense of the data your school collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quantitative data.

This accessible guide provides practical support on becoming research engaged and research active within the school and beyond.

Character Education in America's Blue Ribbon Schools is based upon descriptive, documentary, and qualitative research conducted on the award winning school applications in the United Stated Department of Education's Elementary School Recognition Program, i.

This book shows you how to positively involve parents to raise student achievement.

The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership was written to give urban school principals strategies for successfully implementing change, and achieving systemic reforms.

This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard's organization theory.

Are you a new or aspiring middle leader?

"e;The authors are well-known in the Assessment field and this work presents their highly original analysis.

This indispensable textbook provides the underpinning knowledge to support all Teaching Assistants working towards Level 3 of the National Occupational Standards.

In today's complex educational environment, it's critical for educators to understand the policy landscape.

Coping when a friend moves away is hard.

The modern university, which has its origins in 18th and 19th century Germany, is currently at war within itself.

Shifting faculty roles in a changing landscape Ernest L.

The first International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration (Leithwood et al.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

ANDY HARGREAVES Department of Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction Lynch School of Education, Boston College, MA, U.

SYSTEM FAILURE provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice-involved youth in regular public schools, juvenile court schools, probation settings, and alternative schools.

Today's administrators need to understand why, when, where, and how to market their schools to continue to serve their communities in the rapidly-changing educational climate.

In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building knowledge.

Trotz der zunehmenden - vor allem bildungspolitisch geprägten - Bedeutungszuschreibung des informellen Lernens als relevante Form der Bildungsbeteiligung Erwachsener, liegen in und für Deutschland aktuell keine Längsschnitt- oder Trendanalysen zur tatsächlichen Beteiligung vor.

Author Erica Battle adds to the conversation on social and emotional learning, providing teachers with tried-and-true practices that will enable them to form meaningful relationships with secondary students.