Higher education, tertiary education

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

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North and Leadership Intelligence: Navigating with Confidence and Humility (forth coming in the fall of 2019), inthis book, Scenarios in Higher Education Leadership: Improving Your Leadership Intelligence Volume 2, Maulding Green and Leonard have provided the reader with a continuing series of situational judgement test (SJT) scenarios, used ina training process that assists both novice and experienced leaders to grow their Leadership Intelligence.

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

The Instructional Soul: Leading Schools with a Spirit of Innovation is about connections.

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

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.

Tools such as Blackboard and Google Classroom have seen wide-scale adoption and standardized implementation in colleges and universities.

Clinical experiences, supported by well-prepared mentor teachers and university-based teacher educators, are essential for developing successful teacher candidates.

Drawing on the extensive knowledge of experts from nations around the world, the authors provide comprehensive assessments of the challenges and opportunities when dealing with educational change initiatives at the national and local levels.

With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of fostering creativity in the lives of youth.

Leading the Parade is a book for teachers and leaders who are faced with the task of leading teams of peers.

This book provides strategies teachers and principals can use to improve the culture of their classroom or school.

The goal of this edited volume is to share ideas and examples of impactful practices useful for teacher educators in Early Childhood Education degree programs (associate, bachelor, and graduate level) as well as teacher educators in other settings.

This book provides the reader with a fresh and comprehensive approach to both considering and implementing an uncommon governance practice that emphasizes a lasting, effective, and a sustaining relationship between the board and president.

Academic advising is the second most important function in the community college.

Charles Sullivan, one of the winningest coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball, is a physical education teacher and sports psychology professor at Springfield College by trade.

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

As local elections and other occurrences can transform a board and its direction, having a performance review cycle to ensure that all board members understand the philosophy undergirding the superintendent's evaluation is critical to ensuring that all members of the governing board are operating within a similar framework and purpose as they approach the superintendent's evaluation cycle.

This book will be a practical, hands-on book for all undergraduate and graduate students who wish to learn how to conduct research.

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.

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

Coplin uses his 50+ years of undergraduate teaching experience to present a series of roles, strategies and tactics to help professors prepare undergraduates for life after college.

This book applies the concept of mindfulness to the challenges faced by academic leaders such as department chairs, deans, provosts, presidents or chancellors, and faculty leaders.

This book offers new teachers a proactive approach to the entire spectrum of the profession, from making the decision to become a teacher, through applying, interviewing, setting up a classroom, accessing curriculum, creating lesson plans and a gradebook, presenting material effectively, creating a positive learning environment based on empathy and respect, connecting with students, colleagues, administrators, and parents, preventing cheating and bullying, maintaining order, and using educational technology, all the way to avoiding late-career burnout.

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.

Expertise in every classroom should be the norm, not the exception.

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

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 book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda.

The second edition of this handbook is an easily understood desk companion for new school principals and aspiring school leaders.

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Integrating Teaching and Technology: A Matrix for Professional Faculty Development provides college faculty and administrators with the foundations for a new model for integrating the two most critical dimensions of teaching and learning, pedagogy and technology: the Integrated Readiness Matrix (IRM).

This book provides the user with a system for pre-determining the likelihood of grants success before investing time in proposal preparation.

Community colleges were established to provide an accessible, affordable education and have largely met this charge.

Helping professionals of all types are everyday heroes who routinely and selflessly improve the lives of others.

In this updated and expanded edition of his groundbreaking book, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative director Michael Platt reveals how the latest advances in neuroscience-including new insights from artificial intelligence-are transforming our understanding of effective leadership.

Excellent social work education and training is vital for ensuring best practice, and it is important to understand the key approaches and methods in order to provide the best teaching and ensure effective learning.

The author draws on his years of experience with the nuclear-powered submarine fleet of the U.

Supporting New Teachers: Insight for Principals and Others to Help New Teachers in Their Initial Years provides a framework for critical components every new teacher needs to be successful and feel supported in their first year of teaching.

Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care.

This book offers a fresh perspective on understanding university library work with international users in North America.

Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging from the era of urban crisis-desegregation, white flight, political conflict, and economic decline.

A revolution has been taking place in the ranks of higher education.

In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River.

Collegiate Republic offers a compellingly different view of the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution.

Thomas Jefferson had a radical dream for higher education.

Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer.

Editors Marta Deyrup and Beth Bloom have brought together well-known educators from the fields of library science, communication, composition, and education to show you how to develop successful strategies for teaching undergraduates how to conduct basic research and write papers.

This book offers a fresh perspective on understanding university library work with international users in North America.

This collection of collaborative, high-impact learning experiences in information literacy teaches librarians how to engage students in hands-on, experiential learning.