Educational administration and organization

Too often, new superintendents-even if they have succeeded in other administrative positions-can undermine their successes by making critical novice mistakes, such as failing to recognize political stumbling blocks or unintentionally inviting school board member micromanagement.

Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v.

Religion and Worldviews: The Triumph of the Secular in Religious Education provides the first serious analysis and review of the Commission on Religious Education's proposed worldviews framework for the subject.

Social competency is a set of skills that provide children with the tools and abilities to successfully navigate the world around them.

This handbook offers an expanded discourse on transformative learning by making the turn into new passageways to explore the phenomenon of transformation.

The Behaviour Manual An Educator's Guidebook offers over 100 strategies, approaches and teaching methods that will help any school, leader, middle leader, teacher, ECT or ITT to pro-actively lead on behaviour.

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have experienced massive changes in the past three decades.

This book explores the relationship between problem analysis, leadership, decision making, and change.

Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid.

This book offers a new perspective on the management of schools by bringing together the knowledge and understanding of school effectiveness and community education.

About the first edition:"e;School governors will find this a sound and practical guide to the nature of their responsibilities and the process of managing their workload.

"e;Igniting School Performance"e; begins with a simple question.

In the face of a global pandemic, catastrophic weather events, war, racism, and attacks on democracy, how should educational leaders respond?

This book results from interviews conducted with higher education leaders in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US, and the UK.

Originally published in 1995.

A rounded, comprehensive, guide to issues of practice, pedagogy and policy concerned with creative education.

Lesson Study has been actively introduced from Japan to various parts of the world, starting with the US.

Thousands of college students across the country apply each year for nationally and internationally competitive scholarships and grants.

Leadership for Safe Schools is every school and district leader's guide to developing practical policies and carefully designed action plans to ensure that K-12 students are physically and psychologically safe, secure, and supported.

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems.

The book uses Chicago as a case study to examine the cultural politics surrounding neoliberal education policy in general and the concomitant alterations to democratic practice in particular.

Social media has exploded onto American culture - including our schools - giving educators a unique opportunity to shape this phenomenon into a powerful tool for improving educational leadership practices.

The new millennium has seen a variety of parenting styles that differ greatly from previous generations.

South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor.

A practical toolkit for educational professionals working in the continuing professional development of teachers.

This practical book and its accompanying downloadable resources include over 100 schedules to help elementary schools raise student achievement.

This, the first book in the series, 'Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education', is edited by two experienced, committed and skilled educationists from different parts of the world but with converging values and viewpoints.

This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education.

Crazy-Proofing High School Sports examines the often troubling high school sports phenomenon in two parts.

Metacognition is a set of active mental processes that allows users to monitor, regulate, and direct their personal cognitive strategies.

Make your school soar by escalating trust between teachers, students, and families Trust is an essential element in all healthy relationships, and the relationships that exist in your school are no different.

Alternative education caters and cares for students whose regular schools have failed and excluded them.

Tony Little is The Head Master of Eton.

Strong, effective, and innovative leadership is critical for institutions of higher education, especially for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).

This book walks community activists through the rationale for assuming local responsibility for academic performance, outlines steps needed to drive that change, and suggests curricular direction and school policy requirements.

In the years immediately following the Civil War the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them.

This book foregrounds the voices of women in educational leadership to draw on the power of diverse perspectives and to create an environment that better embraces a broad range of leadership styles.

Underpinned in the stream of thought named 'communitarianism', Reforming Education in Developing Countries argues that developing countries need educational reforms that are tightly entwined into their cultural, social, and organizational contexts.

Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and,Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.

Pupil Book Study is a window into the lived experience of pupils, as opposed to just the observed experience.

Baltimore native Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an essayist, literary critic, magazine editor, novelist, and journalist.

Parents and Schools Together shows administrators, teachers, and parents how to work together to produce high achieving students in urban school districts.

A cutting-edge study showcases the emergence of contemporary youth activism in the United States, its benefits to young people, its role in strengthening society, and its powerful social justice implications.

Lycoming College, 1812-2012: On the Frontiers of American Education is the story of Lycoming College, a liberal arts and sciences college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

"e;This book has the potential to do for nurseries what Michael Fullan's work did for schools, to re-affirm the moral heart of leadership.

Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and work College and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success.

This book provides the reader with a fresh and comprehensive approach to both considering and implementing an uncommon governance practice that emphasizes a lasting, effective, and a sustaining relationship between the board and president.