Educational administration and organization

Understand what metacognition is and how you can apply it to your secondary school teaching to support deep and effective learning in your classroom.

Providing an in-depth look at the processes, pitfalls, and successes that can emerge from major education reform efforts at the state level, this volume covers the full policy change cycle in the development and transformation of the Illinois principal preparation program.

How can we prepare practicing and aspiring education leaders for the complex, adaptive challenges they face?

Education for the Human Brain: A Road Map for Natural Learning in Schools is an all inclusive book on understanding and implementing a natural and brain-compatible instructional strategy from early childhood to adult learners.

A winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA).

Thirty Three Ways to Help with Numeracy equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of numeracy.

Originally published in 1991.

This book brings together guidance, advice and tips from school business leaders across the sector.

First Published in 2004.

Going beyond other bullying prevention resources, this book presents an approach grounded in evidence-based best practices, together with concrete guidance for weaving it sustainably into the fabric of a school.

Countless technology tools are available to teachers and coaches, but integrating technology in the classroom in a purposeful way is challenging.

Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children's lives and family life are seen to be at stake.

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

"e;Mental health bears vital importance to the healthy growth of young students.

When is leadership not relational?

Perhaps the most challenging and important role that adults play in society is that of raising children.

THE PROVEN FIVE-STEP STRATEGY FOR FINDING THE JOB OF YOUR DREAMS!

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

This book re examines the role of arts integration in the preschool and primary school curricula, arguing for the creation of an educational environment where children can process every taught subject as an aesthetic stimulus.

Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen M.

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

Motivation and hope are two items in short supply in many urban schools.

The missing how-to manual for being an effective team leader The Art of Coaching Teams is the manual you never received when you signed on to lead a team.

This book is based on author James H.

This Minibook is a brief guide for Green Belt during a Lean Six Sigma project management or for Kaizen Leader during a process improvement activity.

This book highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity in the academic landscape, and examines how it is understood in the context of the modern university.

Hoffman and Summers provide both a conceptual framework and practical approaches relevant to leadership issues in higher education.

From the New York Times to Gawker, a behind-the-scenes look at how performance analytics are transforming journalism today-and how they might remake other professions tomorrowJournalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares.

This book ambitiously presents the current directions and goals of the Chinese idea of modernization in education.

A Guide to Best Practice in Special Education, Health and Social Care explores and explains the changes in governmental policies across the education, health and social care services, and what they mean for young individuals, parents and professionals.

This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring.

An emphasis among educational policymakers to stress college for all students is neglecting the hopes and aspirations of millions of young people currently in school who either lack interest in academics or the inability to succeed in a more rigorous curriculum.

This book explores the behaviours that result from Public Service Motivation (PSM), outside of a firm or agency environment.

"e;The main objective of the New Education Experiment is to restore the richness and completeness of human nature.

Using African epistemologies to understand contributing social and cultural factors around African school violence, this book investigates various kinds of school-based violence suffered by learners and teachers in order to further research into the impact of educational interventions on crime prevention in African schools.

First published in 1999, this volume attempts to draw the literature on school effectiveness and teacher effectiveness together in one volume.

Standards for Reporting Data to Educators provides a synthesis of research and best practices of how data should be presented to educators in order to optimize the effectiveness of data use.

The contribution schools can make to improving students' health and wellbeing is increasingly recognised.

Today's educational leaders are working with more resources, more research, and more stakeholders - all within the same, limited time in a day as we had a decade ago.

Examines the ideological differences between the education policies of the two main political parties in the UK and discusses the emergence of these differences within the context of the 1988 Education Reform Act.

In light of a new wave of globalisation, cultural mobility, and criticism of Anglo-American domination, how must educational administrators and leaders respond to the challenges of internationalising their curricula and accommodating diversity?

Based on the popular presentation of the same name, Lead Like the Legends uses the inspiring words of musical legends to help teachers and administrators learn the principles of effective leadership.

Leadership, the practice of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept.

The Instructional Leadership Cycle introduces a multifaceted model for continuous school and system improvement, founded on an adaptable set of professional practices for K12 leaders.

Advance Praise for Moving the Rock The future comes at us fast which means school reformers don t have time to wait.

This book examines seven higher education organizations, exploring their interconnected lines: organizational change and organizational stability.