Teacher training

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.

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Today's educators face challenges unparalleled by previous generations of teachers.

Finding the Teacher Self offers a foundation to begin and sustain a discussion with preservice and in-service teachers about the role of teacher identities in the classrooms, what their teacher identity is, and how they can continue to develop it.

Correct instructional level and self-esteem have never been fully addressed in public education.

Much like Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, Maulding-Green and Leonard have, in Leadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, 'are leaders born or are leaders made?

Reflecting everyday experiences at schools around the country, this book presents a series of situations to be analyzed, compared, contrasted, studied and discussed by those who want to be part of this new approach to education and school leadership.

Reimagining the Educated Mind presents Student Choice Curriculum, a descriptive argument for a major change in high school education.

Leading in the Belly of the Beast is an anthology of essays from transformational school leaders around the country who lead in a school system that is not set up for the success of their students, namely students of color and students living in poverty.

This book brings an international perspective of school leadership, but this time, examines how such leadership can have a positive impact on students considered to be "e;unique.

The Department of Sports and Athletics should be committed to providing a Sports For All Intramural Sports Program.

In America, the average person will spend 90,000 hours at work, or about a quarter of his or her adult life.

The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings that illustrates the ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and learning.

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

Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers.

Team Being is a book about creative collaboration-what it is, how it works and how to maximize chances of doing it well.

Trauma-Sensitive Schools: The Importance of Instilling Grit, Determination, and Resilience is written with the consideration of the important and effective role educators and other staff who work with children every day can have on children of trauma.

Storytelling is the easiest way to become a more effective teacher.

Designing your Teaching Life is written for student teachers and their program-based mentors.

Society today is fragmented.

Teacher retention is of utmost importance at a time when so many young teachers choose not to remain in the profession.

Currently in education everyone is debating what is required to turn around struggling campuses.

Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principals Confidence and Skill lays out the case for the development of robust mentorship programs to support new school leaders.

The guiding idea of this book concerns the nature of teacher education in the future, viewing the understanding of the history of teacher education in different context as the basis for future development.

Leaders in schools, universities, and other organizations are constantly bombarded with ethical dilemmas.

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

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

Creating Effective Presentations: Staff Development with Impact presents a comprehensive approach to creating compelling, interactive staff development sessions.

In recent years there have been strong movements of reforms in teacher education.

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.

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

Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses: Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders is intended for ambitious future principals who recognize the importance of researching and preparing for that esteemed position.

Many people who work in Workforce Development in Community Colleges have not had the benefit of courses or a degree program in Workforce 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.

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?

This book is meant to provide a glimpse into differing facets of organizational management that allows for continued success through refinement of skills promoting operational awareness in today's rapidly evolving world of business.

Agency through Teacher Education: Reflection, Community, and Learning addresses the ways that agency functions for those involved in twenty-first-century teacher education.

This book takes a developmental perspective at the use of scoring rubrics to assess student work.

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.

Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others - instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors - contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities.

The ability to lead a campaign is essential to success for today's college or university president.

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school.

Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently.

Between the current 'Me' generation, the over abundance of discipline problems and violence, the stress of the accountability measures of NCLB, and the current state of the economy, many of education professionals are retiring, changing jobs, or leaving the profession.

The Nurturing Teacher tackles the concerns of stressed teachers.

Classrooms are systems, schools are systems, and schooling in the United States is a big system.

Getting It Right: The Essential Elements of the Dissertation was written for graduate students writing their dissertations.

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

This book offers practical advice to teachers unsure of how to teach spelling.

This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to a research method that can be used by educators to increase student learning, student self-esteem, and quality of school life in the classroom.