Educational administration and organization

Cure Student Underachievement is the culmination of the authors' research, practice, and experience as principals, superintendents, graduate professors, and consultants in efforts to improve school performance and increase student achievement.

What is school district master planning?

With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer.

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School business officials (SBOs) must, in many respects, serve as all things to all people in their workplaces.

Using the principles of transformational leadership, IEP teams become effective tools to ensure student success and achievements.

Lately, our nation's strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to "e;getting tough"e; with teachers.

Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade.

Whether employers are self-administering their 403(b) plans, or are using a Third Party Administrator (TPA), the in depth information in this book will provide a guide to the regulations, and the tools needed to correctly operate the plan.

One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

Who Says Bullies Rule?

Rebels in Society: The Perils of Adolescence is a true journey into the world of adolescents gone bad.

Early and recent school reformers demanded greater funding.

Imagine a school in which gathering around the table to have meaningful conversations is commonplace and unencumbered by roles and positions.

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.

Banishing Bullying Behavior challenges students, parents, educators, education support professionals, administrators, counselors, and policy makers to confront the culture of cruelty that is devastating our society.

Learners are multi-faceted, unique people.

The problems in our nation's schools, and the cures for those problems, have been mired in confusion, innuendo, and deception.

Newly appointed school administrators are often confused when faced with the prospect of having to assume a leadership role in a complex organization like a school or school system.

Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice.

Leadership Standards In Action: The School Principal as Servant-Leader is a powerful resource for aspiring principals, practicing principals, district leadership, and university faculty.

This third edition expands coverage on such topics as the law and students with disabilities, confidentiality, sexual harassment, student searches and tuition vouchers.

Reduce Child Obesity: A Guide to Using The Kid's Choice Program in School and at Home provides school leaders with a practical guide for applying the Kid's Choice Program (KCP), which is a school-based program to promote healthy behaviors and reduce the risk of child obesity.

This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century.

Changing Attitudes and Behavior: Practice Makes Permanent, the second of the Practice Makes Permanent series, argues that school performance is directly correlated to student motivation.

Expanding a principal's formal education and training, The Principal as Learning-Leader is a administrator's guide to improving student achievement, showing practitioners how to focus on the individual academic performance of each and every student and to work with the school staff and community to develop a learning culture that supports student success.

As suicide continues to be one of the leading causes of death among children under the age of fourteen, and as recent bullying statistics report a strong connection between bullying, being bullied, and suicide, it is time for society to set aside its obsession with grade-level benchmarks, test scores, and Blue Ribbon Schools, and instead demand that our students achieve the academic successes they deserve by ensuring that they are educated in schools that are intellectually, socially, and emotionally safe.

As culturally-diverse students feel trapped in failing public schools and abandoned by the system school choice offers a way out and a way up for students who have not succeeded in existing public schools.

The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership was written to give urban school principals strategies for successfully implementing change, and achieving systemic reforms.

A contour is usually defined as an outline or the structure or characteristic of something.

As students begin finalizing college and career decisions, they are faced with tough choices that impact the next 2 to 42 years of their lives.

Superintendents, central office administrators, principals, school board members and students in the field of education will find this book to be useful in guiding their own professional development and practice.

Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently.

Educators are not alone in perennially seeking the best leadership practices and applying them to their own leadership behavior.

Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.

From Student to Professor is the doorway through which readers experience graduate school life, from both sides of the lectern.

While it is quite clear that black and Latino students in general, and poor black and poor Latino students in particular do not do as well as white students in school, the road to real solutions to this very important and vexing problem is far from clear.

The Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools is a marriage between the Art of War and effective school leadership principles.

In their first edition, authors Chad Mason and Karen Brackman examined and explained the difficulties associated with attempting to successfully educate today's, often, over-indulged and narcissistic student population.

It's a challenge every teacher faces finding ways to get and keep the attention of their students; getting them to engage fully in the lessons.

People who live in poverty consider life in different ways than those who have adequate basic resources.

The successes of America's public schools are unrivaled throughout the globe providing an opportunity for every American to graduate from high school.

This book is about moving from the conceptual to practical applications that impact the day-to-day teaching and learning processes.

After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey.

Ever since the first schools opened their doors, teachers have struggled to find ways to successfully deal with misbehaving students.

Veteran educators are being encouraged to take early retirement in order to create jobs for less-experienced, lower-paid novices.

A high-performing school is described as one where student achievement is high and student and teacher absenteeism is low.

This book clears the smoke for boards faced with the challenge to make their governing model, either Policy Governance(R) or Coherent Governance(R) , work in real life.

Educating from the Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education is based on the questions: "e;What does it mean to educate from the heart?

This book comes with a promise: after reading it, you will never again think of board work the same as before.