Educational administration and organization

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.

Get more out of your lesson planner than just a place to record grades and attendance!

Die Autorin zeigt, wie wichtig das eigene Geschlecht sowohl für die eigene Professionalität als auch das eigene Handeln ist.

School leadership can be both immensely rewarding and deeply challenging.

This book showcases programs and practices which demonstrate exemplary school leadership.

How can you create an authentic learning environment-one where students ask questions, do research, and explore subjects that fascinate them-in today's standards-driven atmosphere?

The state-of-the-art of multivariate analysis in sensory science is described in this volume.

Educational leaders not only face moral and ethical decisions regarding their classrooms, schools, districts, and education institutions, but they also must consider the complexities and threats that impact their communities.

Drawing on empirical, interdisciplinary research, this book presents a critical review of some of the major issues that are of interest to researchers, policymakers and planners in developing as well as advanced countries, including specifically in India.

The chapters in this book will focus on pre-service and in-service science teacher education, because both are equally important.

This book argues for a complete reassessment of the ways schools are conceived, organized, operated and managed.

In educational policy, research and practice circles, there has been much attention in recent times to the power and potential of social networks for supporting educational improvement.

This book highlights issues which underpin the professional capabilities of existing and aspiring subject leaders.

The International Conference on Research of Educational Administration and Management (ICREAM) held on October 17, 2017 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

This guide to understanding school readiness in young children is essential reading for early years practitioners.

The Comfort of Little Things is a thought-provoking book that empowers educators to give themselves and the people in their lives second chances in order for themselves and the children they teach to learn and thrive.

Interested in exploring opportunities for meaningful work in the nonprofit sector?

Written in accordance with the President's 2003 homeland security directive and the Department of Education's guidelines, and in response to the ever-present threats facing our school systems, this book helps schools and institutions develop a comprehensive emergency response plan.

Discover how to motivate students in the classroom, using the elements of EMPOWERexploration, motivation, participation, openness, willingness, empathy, and resilience.

A Dilemmatic Approach to Education offers a unique approach to educational theorizing that enriches the way we think about education.

The sexuality of young people arouses controversy and remains a source of concern for parents, teachers, policy-makers and politicians.

Skinned Knees and ABCs critically analyzes schools as sites for applied behaviour systems.

What needs to be improved at your school?

The Improvising Teacher offers a radical reconceptualization of improvisation as a fundamental element of teacher expertise.

Leading School Renewal explores how school principal leadership behaviour impacts on school change endeavours, and in particular pedagogic renewal, which is a form of educational improvement that is primarily concerned with the growing of the knowledge, skills and beliefs of education in a manner that optimises students' life options.

Transformación Estratégica de la Educación Superior examina el modelo empresarial, característico de la educación superior en un entorno que exige: un mayor acceso y matrículas más asequibles, líderes responsables, y profesores que brinden una educación relevante y de alta calidad.

Paul illuminates some of the ways in which Canadian universities are unique and uses these differences to make clear the importance of organizational cultural and institutional fit for leaders confronting critical academic issues such as academic leadership and accountability, student success and support, university funding and fund-raising, strategic planning, government and community relations, and internationalism.

This book will make a first contribution to identify the gaps in current practices and provide alternative mechanisms to conceptualize professionalism that is reflective of changing requirements, culture, and demographics of the contemporary military force.

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.

Authorities have set forth the belief that theory is the most practical of all things.

Large urban school systems have been the weakest link in American education, driving middle-class families into the suburbs while contributing mightily to the racial learning gap.

With Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, you can explore musics from around the world with your students in a meaningful way.

The last quarter of the twentieth century was a very important period in history of education.

This book offers 32 texts and case studies from across a wide range of business sectors around a managerial framework for Sustainable Business.

Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals.

Inform your teaching using your own play history.

With current socio-economic development trends and changing work landscapes, modern workplaces are progressively becoming a subject of flexibilisation and hybridisation.

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.

As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies embedded in charter school management organizations (CMOs), as well as how these practices influence teaching and learning, school leadership, teachers' professional identities, and students' understanding of success.