Administration category: 6852 books
High-Stakes Reform
The Politics of Educational Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Performance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s. State and federal policies set standards for what students should learn; require students to take “high-stakes” tests to measure what they have learned; and then hold students, schools, and school districts...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In the first section, broad issues associated with assessment for, of, and in learning in inclusive classrooms; measuring the implementation of inclusive policy; identifying and removing barriers to inclusion; resourcing and financing; and, evaluating effective teacher preparation for inclusion provide...
Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Schools
Examining the impact and opportunities within educational systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book extends our understanding of the attitudes and behaviors of teachers who improve their schools consistently and considerably. It sets out to critically analyze and examine organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) in schools from a contextual perspective and to display the uniqueness of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
This unique ebook provides an essential up-to-date reference guide to the health and medical implications of natural disasters such as flooding and hurricanes, with detailed, expert advice from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and FEMA. Some of the specific...
Educating Nurses
A Call for Radical Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Praise for Educating Nurses
"This book represents a call to arms, a call for nursing educators and programs to step up in our preparation of nurses. This book will incite controversy, wonderful debate, and dialogue among nurses and others. It is a must-read for every nurse educator and...
Growing Leaders Within
A Process toward Teacher Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Growing Leaders Within: A Process toward Teacher Leadership will aid school administrators in the task of growing and empowering teacher leaders. The goal of growing teacher leaders is to grow a school culture of shared decision-making and collaborative leadership. It is through this transformation...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Studies in School Improvement is the eighth volume in a series on research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. This selection of readings highlights a number of important factors in the stimulation...
Principals in Succession
Transfer and Rotation in Educational Administration
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Contributors to this volume examine structures and processes that school boards have in place directly relating to the process of principal or vice-principal succession. As well, they consider the effect that these structures and processes have upon staff and administrators themselves. These contributors...
Thinking About Schools
New Theories and Innovative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As its title implies, this book has a deceptively simple mission: to prepare would-be school leaders to draw upon a variety of theoretical perspectives when thinking about schools and schooling. It shows how theories can function as cognitive tools to be mastered, carefully stored in one's intellectual...
Discretionary Behavior and Performance in Educational Organizations
The Missing Link in Educational Leadership and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This volume of "Advances in Educational Administration" examines discretionary behavior/performance, an emerging yet critical phenomenon for educational organizations to be effective in responding to the complex expectations of the 21st century. Discretionary behavior refers to the employee...
Disabled Rights
American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
"Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace,...
Human Resource Management
In-Basket Exercises for School Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Research has shown that adult learners prefer a problem solving approach to learning rather than subject centered. This text provides a non-traditional approach to teaching and learning the basics of human resource management through a series of 120 'in-basket' exercises and guided questions. The...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book...contains nine messages concerning what the church is, the building and administration of the church, the materials of God's work, and the proper prayer and faith of a serving one.
Governance and the Democratic Deficit
Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical,...