Educational administration and organization

Nearly forty percent of all fourth graders in this country cannot read at grade level, and this number rises to sixty percent for children coming from poor families.

Did you ever notice how many teachers start out their careers so positive only to end them in misery?

Today's educational system is frozen in time, stuck in traditions of the past.

Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom.

"e;Finally a book about teaching that tells it like it is,"e; NEA Today said about Michael Gose's first edition, What It Means to Be a Teacher.

Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country.

The foundation of successful school district/community relationships is communication that focuses on what most interests average residents - no matter what you, as a school district leader, believe they should be interested in.

The Leadership Identity Journey takes readers on a breathtaking, all-consuming, transformative journey.

Parents and Schools Together shows administrators, teachers, and parents how to work together to produce high achieving students in urban school districts.

School superintendents, business managers, central office leaders, elected officials, industry leaders, educators, and aspiring practitioners in the field of education will find this book a useful resource in understanding innovative ways to stretch limited school resources or to improve the scope and quality of services and programs offered to deserving students.

This book provides foundational thoughts on situations where deans find themselves when managing up, managing their peers and themselves, or managing down.

All meaningful and enduring educational reform occurs locally.

Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers is useful to a wide range of individuals interested in increasing their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students' experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes.

Education and The Distracted Family is very important for all middle, junior high, and high school families due to the amazing opportunities and the major challenges of technology, especially with the internet and smartphones.

This book examines the school as an operational organization through the lens of systems thinking.

What is a game?

The book is a unique and necessary contribution to the literature on school administration.

There ARE jobs for teachers, and this step-by-step guide will help college students and career changers find those jobs and get them.

This CHOICE award winning author has teamed up with two national school change experts to write a comprehensive book on school change management.

School administration is more difficult today than at any time in our history.

This book is designed as a nuts and bolts guide for school counselors.

Doug Eadie's Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team is both a powerful addition to the K-12 governance literature and a practical guidebook for school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators.

Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the research of Vanessa Siddle Walker, Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School, describes a sustainable and authentic partnership between a university and its K-12 partners.

Since Nation at Risk, NCLB and RTT, the once thought sacred institution of school boards as catalysts to ensure local control of schools is being redefined and are under heavy attack.

Today's educators-pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school.

Educators at the Bargaining Table provides a roadmap for understanding the path of bargaining for those who have not sat at the table.

"e;Now what should I do?

N3xt Practices is a ground-breaking advisory book for education decision makers.

In an era of high stakes accountability, testing, and standardization in education, Dr.

Seeking Balance: The Story of a Principal's Second Semester continues the story of fictional Principal Joe Gentry's first year on the job.

The Road to Tenure offers humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic-from graduate school through the postdoc and into the assistant professor days.

Inclusion: Teachers' Perspectives and Practices delineates timely strategies that address teachers' concerns regarding the inclusive environment.

Supporting Inclusion: School Administrators' Perspectives and Practices provides significant insights that arm the reader with a variety of ideas and easy-to-implement applicable strategies gleaned from knowledgeable contemporaries.

This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with a national school resource expert to write a comprehensive book on teacher leaders.

From Teamwork to Excellence: Labor and Economic Factors Affecting Educators is a great book for anyone interested in team building.

Mark Paige takes an in-depth look at the interaction of Value Added Models (VAMs) and the law of teacher evaluation.

Most guides to the process of turning around low-performing schools are written for principals and policy makers.

Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America's public school students.

Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and,Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.

This book will guide the reader to develop a personal leadership style for entrepreneurial success.

"e;Who is an effective leader?

Failing schools have become the latest academic cottage industry, and they serve as lightning rods for the controversy that continues to surround the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

In Collaborative School Leadership, Nash and Hwang provide administrators with clear and focused ideas on making the most of collaborative leadership while on the path to continuous improvement.

WHAT WORKS!

Here is a fresh, common-sense take on education reform, not by an educator or administrator or politico, but by a concerned mother and citizen who dares to proclaim that America is NOT offering a quality education to ALL its children.

The Power of Experience: Principals Talk about School Improvement is a guide for principals, both aspiring and established, who hope to make a measurable difference in the achievement of all students, and who strive to create a positive, safe, and student-centered learning environment in their schools.

The Hard Truth is a book written for principals and school administrators who want to implement effective change.

All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities.

The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address.

The Heart and Mind in Teaching: Pedagogical Styles Through the Ages provides an important historical context for an issue confronting every American teacher, administrator, student, parent, and citizen.