Educational administration and organization

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Kids in the Middle: The Micro-Politics of Special Education takes the reader on a fascinating journey through special education in the past, present, and future.

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.

As editors of Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2010) and Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2011), we have explored innovative practices, many of which represent issues of diversity from multiple perspectives and schools of thought.

Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap.

Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process.

In a recent international comparative study, the United States public schools did not fare well with the rest of the world.

Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present.

This ethnographic research investigates how adolescents use writing.

This book teaches a process that will help both teachers and administrators plan for and conduct meetings that are meaningful, useful, and that generate results.

This book provides step-by-step, concrete advice for aspiring school administrators as they strive to achieve principal certification.

Increased competition, declining resources, changing demographics, news media scrutiny, and the importance of public perceptions are reasons why schools and school districts need an effective marketing program.

This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally.

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Dramatic reductions in the dollars available for public education require a new and systemic approach to balancing school district budgets.

In every online class, some students are wildly successful, some earn average or slightly below-average grades, some barely pass, some fail, and some drop out.

New teachers have it tough.

The Savvy Superintendent examines the art of district leadership from the perspective of top practitioners in the field of education.

Across our country educational policies and practices are killing our students' desire to learn and teachers' passion to teach.

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs.

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

Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents is the first book to inspire and guide professors and program administrator's proven ways to prepare exemplary principals and superintendents for schools.

This book address a major gap in the current mentoring programs at the secondary level.

The Other Side of the Desk explores the world of the principal with stories that capture readers' attention and moves them through the daily life of a school leader.

Written for college leaders at all levels as well as for trustees, this book engages the reader, via narrative and analysis, with the reflective and the practical knowledge essential to a constructive legacy.

What are the hallmarks of a lasting institutional turnaround?

Using case studies and relevant literature, this book illustrates the challenges to legitimate, Shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces.

Leaders in the Labyrinth sheds light on the ways presidents conduct the influence and power of their office, especially in the use of their pulpits, how they navigate issues of political correctness, and how they hold the center of the university together in contentious times and against competing ideological forces.

Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change.

Supporting New Teachers: Insight for Principals and Others to Help New Teachers in Their Initial Years provides a framework for critical components every new teacher needs to be successful and feel supported in their first year of teaching.

Mentoring is a hot buzzword these days.

Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results.

A Glorious Revolution integrates the ideas of service-learning, positive youth development, and model communities into a book with a comprehensive message about making communities more democratic.

This book is designed to provide beginning administrators with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed during their first year, shortening the initial learning curve and helping them make smooth transitions from teaching to their first administrative positions.

The Hybrid Leader brings a whole new perspective to the theoretical framework of leadership development.

Finding the Time for Instructional Leadership is centered on the principalship and is designed to offer busy school leaders time management strategies for finding the time to be genuine instructional leaders.

It was Edmund Burke, the British Statesman and philosopher, who said that those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Collective bargaining in the public schools of the nation has its legal roots in the industrial labor model fashioned in the 1930s out of labor strife between union organizers and private businesses.

This book expands on the framework established in the original volume of Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching.

Teacher identity is shaped by recognition or its absence, often by misrecognition of others.

Since the passage of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) regulating of the maintenance and dissemination of educational records, educators have struggled to meet federal compliance requirements while operating in the daily realities of public schools.

A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution.

Dowdall's book offers sample documents for candidates as well as for the search committees, and includes a substantive bibliography.

The research on parent involvement in education indicates that, in most cases, when parents play an active role in their children's education, academic achievement improves.

This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system.

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

Deans and chairs, like other leaders everywhere, often rely on narrow views of their organizations that capture only part of the real picture.

In this book, Patterson, Goens, and Reed draw upon resilience research and best practices to answer the question: "e;How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?

Total Leaders 2.

At any time, public schools labor under great economic, political, and social pressures that make it difficult to create large-scale, 'whole school' change.