Educational administration and organization

Service-Learning and Social Justice provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice.

Educreation and Feedback: Education for Creation, Growth and Change introduces an educational revolution that focuses on the delivery of knowledge to students.

Within traditional decision theory, common decision principles -- e.

Pupil voice is at the heart of Every Child Matters and is the driving force in acknowledging the rights, voice and choice of children and young people today.

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A concise and accessible text, The Superintendent's Rulebook explores the human-resource, political, and leadership dimensions of the superintendency.

One of the most vexing problems confronting educators today is the chronic achievement gap between black male students and their peers.

Packed with practical tools, this book provides K6 educators with a research-based framework for accelerating the reading and writing growth of underperforming students.

This book examines the theoretical foundations relevant to existential issues in educational leadership and management, taking inspiration from Munch's painting The Scream.

At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education.

This book is a unique primer for school professionals, educators and policymakers to develop a solid understanding of the domains essential to cultivating and sustaining successful schools.

This book provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going.

This book highlights the model of contemplative Catholic school leadership as an influence on faith-formation cultures within the Catholic school, and it demonstrates the impact of cultural factors on Catholic identity formation.

This volume identifies promising learning, teaching, and assessment strategies for the use and assessment of technology in educational settings, specifically: *educational context (e.

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This book shows how principals can foster collegiality, provide mentorship, offer rewards, and otherwise create conditions so that teachers will be internally motivated.

Achieving Outstanding Classroom Support in Your Secondary School shows how secondary school teachers and other school staff can work with Teaching Assistants to ensure that classroom support is maximised and an optimum working relationship is developed.

Introducing a new model of family-school partnership, entitled 'Pathways to Partnership', Sandra presents a template to teachers and school leaders for developing authentic, genuine family-school partnerships that reflect contemporary global thinking and practice.

The 1960s was a tumultuous period in the history of Greece, as its democracy fell under the forced establishment of a military dictatorship.

As accountability increases while budgets decrease, a growing number of school leaders and policy-makers are turning their attention to Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) as a way of improving education and student outcomes in schools and across school systems.

Since the 1960s, school rules and regulations concerning apparel and hair have been the subject of litigation in the federal courts.

"Glocal" education melds the economic advantages of globalizing higher education with the benefits of incorporating local perspectives.

Virtual teaming and virtual learning have been practiced for decades but never to the level required today.

Improvement in Action, Anthony S.

Viewing fluency as a bridge between foundational skills and open-ended learning, this book guides teachers through effective instruction and assessment of fluent reading skills in the primary grades.

Leadership in English Language Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Skills for Changing Times presents both theoretical approaches to leadership and practical skills leaders in English language education need to be effective.

This book studies impact of "e;Overseas Leadership Development Programmes for Chinese University Leaders in the Central and Western Regions of China,"e; a research project funded by National Office for Education Sciences Planning (No.

An invigorating examination of the potential for meaningful change in education, from one of the nations most astute observers of schooling and school improvement.

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.

In this comparative study of young people's educational careers in England and Germany, individual factors, social class, school and country characteristics are shown jointly to shape these careers through mutually reinforcing processes.

In a professional learning community, isolation is the enemy of school improvement.

Top scholars systematically explore roles, rights, and responsibilities of major participants in UK education: the government, the educators, the learners, and the parents.

This is a book on the good practice of mentoring written by scholars and practitioners in education, health and industry.

With an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training, Teacher Learning in the Digital Age examines exemplary models of online and blended teacher professional development, including information on the structure and design of each model, intended audience, and existing research and evaluation data.

Why is there a need to rethink madrasah education?

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

From speedy suppers and nourishing lunches, to cheeky snacks for late night cravings, this is the essential cookbook for modern students.

This book urges teachers - as both producers and consumers of knowledge - to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themsleves.

Veteran educators Seifert and Vornberg utilize the six standards created by the Interstate School Leaders Consortium (ISLLIC) and used in developing and redesigning preparation programs and state certification examinations to discuss those issues faced by practicing elementary and secondary school principals.

The book discusses the various aspects of diversity of corporate boards in terms of gender, age, nationality, tenure, education, experience and personalities.

Worldwide women constitute the majority of the teaching force, but men are more likely to achieve headship.

Ask practically any academic department chair why they do not have more African Americans among faculty members and they generally respond with stock stories or folktales, which stimulated the title of this volume.

Learning in secondary school classrooms involves much more than students reciting the "e;right"e; answers on high-stakes tests.

Alcorn State University was founded in 1871, making it the oldest public historically black land-grant institution in the United States.

This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation.