Educational administration and organization

Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others - instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors - contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities.

Every school is different, but all schools face very similar challenges.

This book offers faculty and leaders of academic institutions insights on issues surrounding faculty mentoring and how national and international co-mentoring networks can contribute to the success of their members.

Whether it is requests for bricks and mortar or more operating money, each election type and context is unique with no guarantee that a set of campaign strategies-successful in one district-will not fail in another community.

Develop a creative, productive school culture.

This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system.

This co-authored book critically reviews existing literature on school resource officer (SRO) programs and presents a thorough evaluation of an SRO program offered by Peel Regional Police in Ontario, Canada.

Exploring Leadership For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference, Facilitation and Activity Guide Based on the third edition of the best-selling text Exploring Leadership, this companion Facilitation and Activity Guide is designed to help educators work with students to develop their leadership potential in order to become effective leaders.

The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history.

Originally published in 1989.

The arts in education are currently the subject of considerable controversy.

In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.

The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development.

This book focuses on the impact of teachers' leadership identity on their pedagogical and class management choices and proposes a new pedagogical framework, leaderful classroom practices which emerged through collective, concurrent, collaborative, and compassionate interactions between the teacher and students.

Canadian universities face a complicated and uncertain future when it comes to funding, governance, and fostering innovation.

Teach students to write about math so they can improve their conceptual understanding in authentic ways.

Educational Research and Policy: How do They Relate?

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details “how the U.

This book systematically elaborates Scott Eacott's "e;relational"e; approach to organizational theory in education.

Spirituality Research Studies in Higher Education offers two uniquely designed sections that showcase a group of talented scholars from major research institutions.

This sequel to Breslin's critically acclaimed Lessons from Lockdown explores how school leaders, teachers, parents and pupils have navigated their way through and from lockdown.

By focusing on what students learn rather than what they are taught, schools can redefine their mission and begin the transition to a professional learning community.

This book looks at madrasas and educational institutions run by Muslim communities in India focusing on the history, social relevance and importance of these institutions.

How can teachers make sure that all students gain the reading skills they need to be successful in school and in life?

Animal-Assisted School Counseling (AASC) is a hands-on resource that provides invaluable information for school counselors interested in partnering with a therapy animal on campus to help students meet social and emotional goals.

A long-awaited companion to the wildly popular HEART!

This fascinating book focuses on those who are most affected by changes in education policy and systems-the pupils.

This practical, engaging book explores the fundamentals of pedagogy and the unique challenges of teaching undergraduate mathematics not commonly addressed in most education literature.

'Michael Farrell offers well sourced overviews of the conflicting and contradictory advice that is available to schools, suggests a variety of solutions to challenges, empowering the reader to make their own choices.

In a recent international comparative study, the United States public schools did not fare well with the rest of the world.

The United States has about $2 trillion tied up in aging school facilities.

Since the passage of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) regulating of the maintenance and dissemination of educational records, educators have struggled to meet federal compliance requirements while operating in the daily realities of public schools.

In recent years citizenship has emerged as a very important topic in the sciences, mainly as a result of the effects of migration, population displacements and cultural heterogeneity.

Being included in a meaningful and intentional sense is often the key that can unlock access to education, learning and the maximising of potential for many children and young people.

Digital Identity Management in Formal Education offers a broad analysis of the online self considered from educational policy, technological, legal and social perspectives.

When a fourth-grade student, Jenny, was asked about reading, she stated: "e;I love to read, you get real neat ideas.

Daily observation of classroom teaching can significantly impact the quality of teaching and learning.

How do students social identities, particularly their gender, influence their leadership practices and development?

This book includes a set of rigorous and accessible studies on the topic of "e;research evidence"e; from a variety of levels and educational vantage points.

Learn the secrets to getting your entire school excited about math!

Education has fought long and hard to gain acceptance as a profession and, since professionals by definition use data to shape the decisions they make, education has little choice but to continue moving in this direction.

Every school leader will benefit from this must-have book by award-winning educator Pete Hall.

Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American Protestant mainline churches' approach to race.

Widely acknowledged as the most respected reference on school accounting, this book offers clear, detailed explanations of financial accounting and reporting as they apply to school system fund structures.

A new oral and maxillofacial operative manual in Bailey & Love's Essential Operations series.

Addressing the issue from three perspectives: the student, the teacher, and also the parent or family member, this work provides background information, advice and resources about the causes and nature of school bullying along with strategies to address the behavior successfully.

Marking the centennial of the founding of Columbia University's school of journalism, this candid history of the school's evolution is set against the backdrop of the ongoing debate over whether journalism can-or should-be taught in America's universities.