Higher education, tertiary education

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.

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

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

From Student to Professor is the doorway through which readers experience graduate school life, from both sides of the lectern.

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?

In every online class, some students are wildly successful, some earn average or slightly below-average grades, some barely pass, some fail, and some drop out.

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.

This encouraging guide coaches African American and first-generation college students on strategies for maximizing their experiences and success on university campuses.

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.

Deans and chairs, like other leaders everywhere, often rely on narrow views of their organizations that capture only part of the real picture.

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.

Teacher identity is shaped by recognition or its absence, often by misrecognition of others.

Service-Learning and Social Justice provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice.

Teacher Preparation at the Intersection of Race and Poverty in Today's Schools introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful works by authors that represent current thinking about teacher preparation.

Leaders in the Labyrinth sheds light on the ways presidents conduct the influence and power of their office, especially in the use of their pulpits, how they navigate issues of political correctness, and how they hold the center of the university together in contentious times and against competing ideological forces.

Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change.

Academic Culture introduces students to the demands of university study in a clear and accessible way, and helps them understand what is expected of them.

Technology is viewed as a powerful force both in and out of school and has long been linked with math and science.

Using case studies and relevant literature, this book illustrates the challenges to legitimate, Shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces.

Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry.

This book teaches a process that will help both teachers and administrators plan for and conduct meetings that are meaningful, useful, and that generate results.

For anyone who was a candidate for National Board certification or might be a candidate in the future, Certifiable: Teaching, Learning, and National Board Certification is a must-read book.

Dowdall's book offers sample documents for candidates as well as for the search committees, and includes a substantive bibliography.