Educational administration and organization

Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children.

By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.

A Guide to Best Practice in Special Education, Health and Social Care explores and explains the changes in governmental policies across the education, health and social care services, and what they mean for young individuals, parents and professionals.

The college admissions landscape and the steps to apply can be overwhelming and confusing!

Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from AERA's Moral Development and Education SIG!

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All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations.

This book provides school principals and those responsible for pedagogical supervision the necessary tools for their professional development, whether in formal (continuing education) or informal (self-taught) contexts.

Understanding Character Education introduces readers to the key ideas, practices and concepts that are shaping character education in schools today.

This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting.

The results are in: observations are not improving teaching and learning.

Schools that want to be world class are now paying attention to the findings from neuroscience and psychology that tell us we can build better brains.

This book offers specific, easy-to-implement mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) tools for practitioners to use in schools at an individual, group, or classroom-wide level.

Strategy, the link between mission and operational plans to improve an institution's performance, is a critical element to the future success of higher education (HE).

With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up_or 'crashing' and leaving their posts.

Misinformation and propaganda abound about the quality of teacher preparation in the United States.

Detoxing America Schools: From Social Agency to Academic Urgency examines the issue of toxicity in public education institutions.

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The need for change in the education system is obvious and overwhelming.

This revised new edition provides essential guidance for all teaching assistants, especially those who are new to the job, and to the teachers working with them.

While the phrase learning communities has various definitions, at the heart of all programs is the goal of enhancing the student learning experience in the community of others.

This book shows school leaders how they can infuse their daily practice with an examination of the actions they take to improve their schools.

Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.

Emotion and School: Understanding How the Hidden Curriculum Influences Relationships, Leadership, Teaching, and Learning reports the history, developments, applications and possible future directions of relational and emotion-focused school research from North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Addressing the issue of behaviour problems in the early years, this book offers early years practitioners a practical and well-researched resource covering subjects such as: the nature and extent of behaviour problems in the early years definitions of behaviour problems theoretical frameworks and factors screening and assessment a blueprint for early identification and intervention.

There are many master teachers who have excellent organizational and interpersonal relation skills who think about becoming assistant principals and principals.

This second edition of The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Effective Interaction is the definitive guide to teaching assistant-pupil interaction, fully updated with examples from schools that have implemented techniques from the first edition.

Based on a ground-breaking Department of Education-funded project and written by experienced teachers and educational practitioners, Reducing Teachers' Marking Workload and Developing Pupils' Learning shares strategies for reducing marking workload without compromising the quality of feedback pupils receive.

Competency-Based Education introduces educators to a new model for anytime, anywhere schooling and provides tools and curriculum resources for redesigning the traditional structures of K12 schools.

Teaching controversial issues in the classroom is now more urgent and fraught than ever as we face up to rising authoritarianism, racial and economic injustice, and looming environmental disaster.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.

Learn how to use Relationship-Based Professional Development (RBPD) strategies to foster equitable, inclusive and socially just communities of collaboration and learning in PreK to age 8 programs.

Recently at the Visible Learning Conference, Professor John Hattie stood up in his opening address and said, "e;I'm looking at you all and thinking 'What if I got this wrong?

This book brings together the academic fields of educational leadership, educational administration, strategic change management, and Indigenous education in order to provide a critical, multi-perspective, systems level analysis of the provision of education services to Indigenous people.

Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Resilience, and Character is a collection of essays written by students in an urban community in New Jersey.

A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excelElite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes.

This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events - periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience.

Over the past fifty years, the ';special status' of education decision-making has been eroded.

The 'Get to Know Me' series is aimed at children with additional needs and those who support them in the classroom.

Smart financial management means more students served Community College Finance provides an introduction to best practices for community college leaders and their boards, with guidance on the complex regulations, processes, and considerations surrounding the financial management of these unique institutions.

It is evident that urban education has become the central focus of educators at the present time.

Parents and caregivers often seek ways to stimulate their little learners, but don't know where to start.

No matter what variety of educational program is used to motivate students the bottom line is knowing the people within the circle of influence are behind every effort the student faces.

Moving from country to country is no small feat.

Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France.

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar.

Developing and updating school improvement plans is an annual ritual for virtually all school principals and their school improvement committees.