Educational administration and organization

School leadership can be both immensely rewarding and deeply challenging.

Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its contributors, this text empowers pre-service teachers to become effective and reflective practitioners.

A vital inquiry into trans issues in education, this compelling work argues for the design of education research, policies, and environments that honor all gender experiences and identities.

Paradoxes of Democracy, Leadership and Education engages both critically and creatively with important social, political and educational issues, and argues that the organisational forms of contemporary schooling are caught up in politically significant contradictions.

Focusing on theory and therapeutic factors and applications, this work will provide group leaders and counselors working with children with a conceptual basis and specific strategies for use in therapy, counseling, and therapeutic groups.

District Leader Internship challenges school district leader interns to develop a rigorous and broad-based experience to prepare for their first job as a superintendent.

This how-to resource provides leaders with a concrete framework for a strategic improvement plan, helping educators link the "e;principles"e; to "e;processes"e; of planning.

In this comparative study of young people's educational careers in England and Germany, individual factors, social class, school and country characteristics are shown jointly to shape these careers through mutually reinforcing processes.

At the core of every subject teacher's role is the task of being a tutor.

Women in STEM are constantly facing new challenges every day.

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban elementary school, this volume is an examination of how school division politics, regional economic policies, parental concerns, urban development efforts, popular cultures, gender ideologies, racial politics, and university and corporate agendas come together to produce educational effects.

Which curricular and cocurricular practices promote student learning and persistence?

This book analyzes policies in eight European countries that aim to intervene in the reproduction of social and educational inequalities.

This book will help you interview successfully for your first job-or a new role-in education.

Drawing on two international research projects, Reconstructing Relationships in Higher Education: Challenging Agendas looks behind formal organisational structures and workforce patterns to consider the significance of relationships, particularly at local and informal levels, for the aspirations and motivations of academic faculty.

This timely and comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come.

The PLC journey begins by articulating a moral purpose: a dedication to ensuring that every student learns.

Learn how to collaborate with parents and special education advocates to ensure student success.

Politics and Education: Cases from eleven nations tackles the relationship between politics and education.

The collapse of communism and the adoption of parliamentary democracy led to rapid and dramatic educational change in countries formerly under the control of the Soviet Union.

Standards-based education (SBE) has been the dominant educational reform movement since the early 1980s, reinforced by federal and state accountability systems.

According to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, an estimated 65 percent of recent college graduates are burdened by student loans.

This is a practical guide to the role, management, and deployment of teaching assistants.

Basic Counselling Skills for Teachers provides teachers and school staff with an accessible guide, and easy-to-apply skills, to providing counselling to students in a school setting.

Improving Professional Learning through In-House Inquiry shows how to identify the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) needs of an individual or team and then to meet those needs through carrying out specific inquiry within the organisation.

Focusing on non-traditional students in higher education institutions, this new book from renowned scholar John Levin examines the extent to which community college students receive justice both within their institution and as an outcome of their education.

Abolitionist Leadership in Schools offers school and district leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring, and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and communities in crisis.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

Collaborate for schoolwide success.

The sacrificial nature of juggling instructional, operational, managerial, and collegial goals often leaves school leaders feeling so desperate to resolve conflicts that they lose self, abandoning their core values and forgetting their "e;why.

How to Handle Difficult Parents is a funny, but practical, guide to working effectively with parents and avoiding unnecessary conflict.

This topical volume tells the story of the UK debate on financing higher education, illustrating a head-on collision between the economic imperatives of student loans and regulated market forces, and the political imperative of 'free' higher education.

Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders.

This is Volume 11, Issue 1 2000 of 'Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation' and this special issue journal looks at the implementation of prevention programs.

Achieving successful financial viability by broadening revenue sources is one of the most important issues facing colleges and universities today.

Most intervention research in education aims to demonstrate the efficacy of specific programs and practices.

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments.

Principals navigate the dynamic complexities and subtleties of their schools every day.

Designed to complement Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School, this book focuses specifically on the skills and processes of teaching MFL at A and A/S level in schools and colleges.

The International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement draws together leading academics and researchers in the field to reflect on the history, traditions and the most recent developments in this dynamic and influential field.

Armed with real-world examples and out-of-the-box ideas, Nathan Levenson challenges conventional thinking about school budgeting and offers practical, actionable advice for school superintendents, central office leaders, building principals, and school board members.

The book analyzes the struggle of African Americans to gain access and equity in higher education in the United States.

A guidebook for adults involved in children's sports!

Written by two educational psychologists, this essential aid shows how change can be managed to increase job satisfaction and avoid unnecessary stress and conflict.

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