Higher education, tertiary education

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

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

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.

Why might some students convert their political interests into activism when others do not?

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sexual Orientation and Teacher Identity: Professionalism and GLBT Politics in Teacher Preparation and Practice examines the nature of LGBTQ issues and teacher identity as social, cultural, and political constructs.

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies.

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.

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.

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.

This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally.

Teachers are the most essential element in a child's success in school.

This ethnographic research investigates how adolescents use writing.

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.

This book provides step-by-step, concrete advice for aspiring school administrators as they strive to achieve principal certification.

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

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.

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New teachers have it tough.

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs.

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

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.

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

Supervising Student Teachers clearly defines the role of cooperating teachers and guides them through their responsibilities.

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.

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

The teacher's role must be redefined to meet the needs and demands of today's culture and the edutainer is the paradigm shift needed for education to be relevant, applicable, and effective in the 21st Century.

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

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.

A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution.

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed.

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.

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

This book expands on the framework established in the original volume of Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching.

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

Good teaching is much more than a college degree and a collection of lesson plans.

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world.

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

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?

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.

Student teaching is the key phase in the preparation of the professional instructional personnel of the nation's schools.

The Nurturing Teacher tackles the concerns of stressed teachers.