Educational administration and organization

It's estimated that more than 50% of teachers feel inadequately prepared to academically support multilingual student growth.

Work Your Career shows PhD students how to use the unique opportunities of doctoral programs to build successful career outcomes.

Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement, Fourth Edition, is a clear and practical guide to conducting action research in schools.

Mathematics for Curriculum Leaders involves teachers in a deliberate enquiry into the nature of understanding in mathematics and the ideas underlying its teaching and learning.

"e;Organized"e; and "e;innovation"e; are words rarely heard together.

Discover proven methods to enhance teaching and learning schoolwide.

The world's systems of higher education (HE) are caught up in the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century.

Free-thinking Thomas Jefferson established the University of Virginia as a secular institution and stipulated that the University should not provide any instruction in religion.

This book explores the diverse ways in which practitioners can support students' learning, enabling them to develop and flourish in the school setting.

Originally published in 1988.

An expanded, updated version of 1997's Coming Clean About Organizational Change, this version contains 50 percent new references and 40 percent new content including chapters on organizational culture, resilience, new conceptual frameworks on organizational change, and zones of individual performance.

This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view.

Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities.

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.

School as Learning Community (SLC), or Lesson Study for Learning Community (LSLC) represents an approach to lesson study that emerged in Japan in the 1990s and which has been studied intensively by educators and researchers worldwide to establish democratic learning communities for teachers and students in schools.

This book celebrates the work of Patricia Werhane, an iconic figure in business ethics.

Organisational Control in University Management:A Multiparadigm Approach focuseson significant reform and change in large organisations.

So often, educators' conversations about well-being begin and end with self-care, without addressing all aspects of educator wellness.

Parent's Quick Start Guide to Dysgraphia provides parents and caregivers with an immediate overview of dysgraphia and steps they can take to support and encourage their child.

This volume acknowledges the need for better understanding in leadership, management and administration of new knowledge which is crucial for effective leadership in a period of massive policy reform and deepening austerity in education.

Don't jump from problem to solution without first investigating root causes.

This book investigates how governance at different levels can improve access to education for excluded communities.

This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the structures of traditional higher education, and points to the growing emergence of evidence-based best practices that can catalyze a renaissance in community engagement and in higher education.

Navigate the transition to blended learning with this practical field guide Blended is the practical field guide for implementing blended learning techniques in K-12 classrooms.

This practical guide contains everything higher education leaders and administrators need to know in order to write simple, effective plans for their colleges and departments.

The college admissions landscape and the steps to apply can be overwhelming and confusing!

A respected journalist turned-teacher reveals what's really happening in America's schoolsIn 1999, Chicago Sun-Times veteran Leslie Baldacci left her prestigious, twenty-five year career to teach at a public school in one of Chicago's roughest South Side neighborhoods.

The aim of this book is to deepen our understanding of financial crimes as phenomena.

This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education.

Theoretical Frameworks in College Student Research was written to offer those who engage in college student research a framework, tool, or guide for understanding the role that theory plays in research.

This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in post-1960 British public life.

What do great leaders need to do to run great schools?

Instructional rounds is a powerful form of professional learning aimed at helping schools and systems develop the capacity to educate all children to high levels.

This 15th volume of "e;Advances in Early Education and Day Care"e; focuses on the implementation of professional development for early childhood educators, describing a number of models for improving early childhood care.

Attending school is an experience that most people share but this leads us to accept rather than question the experience.

This book makes a distinction between the "e;principal"e; - the man or woman who occupies the position - and the "e;principalship"e;, the entire leadership function which, although overseen and coordinated by the principal, also includes activities of assistant principals, teachers, counselors, and others.

Skinned Knees and ABCs critically analyzes schools as sites for applied behaviour systems.

This book critically examines the rise of the higher education reform movement, often referred to as the "e;completion agenda,"e; which, since the early 2000s, has sought to restructure core aspects of the community college experience.

Financing Public Schools moves beyond the basics of financing public elementary and secondary education to explore the historical, philosophical, and legal underpinnings of a viable public school system.

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction.

The literature in relation to home schooling grounded in empirical research and focusing on gender role and the impacts of social class has been neglected and unexplored.

This book is the result of several years of research, curriculum development, and testing of a consumer and entrepreneurial literacy educational program for l- literate, low-income adults in India.

Few seem to think conservatives should become professors.

With over 400,000 teachers working in schools in England and Wales, this practical guide is designed to help these teachers take charge of their careers and put themselves in the driving seat.