Principal: 15 books
Reality Calling
The Story of a Principal’s First Semester
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Crafted from authentic experiences shared by principals, Reality Calling: The Story of a Principal’s First Semester reveals fictional Principal Joe Gentry’s first few months on the job. We see his efforts to establish relationships with students, staff and community, handle unexpected (and sometimes...
The Principal's Hot Seat
Observing Real-Life Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Principal's Hot Seat: Observing Real-World Dilemmas transcends traditional educational leadership case study books, featuring video footage of fifteen aspiring principals assuming the principal's role to face unique, unpredictable dilemmas recreated by real principals. One by one, the principals...
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship
A project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded Community
University Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians with
Disabilities (CCD), with Professor Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the Co-Principal
Researchers....
Pauvreté invalidante et Citoyenneté habilitante
Un projet du Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Le projet Pauvreté invalidante, citoyenneté habilitante est un projet de recherche quinquennal
(2008-2014) des Alliances de recherche des universités-communautés (ARUC), financé par le
CRSH et dirigé par le Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences...
Knowledge Management in Education
Enhancing Learning & Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Knowledge Management (KM) is the technique of using the information and knowledge that is supplied to, generated by and inherent in any organization or institution, to improve its performance. This volume demonstrates how KM can be used in education to improve learning.
by Principal Tulloch
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. PASCAL’S FAMILY AND YOUTH
II. PASCAL’S SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
III. PASCAL IN THE WORLD
IV. PORT ROYAL AND PASCAL’S LATER YEARS
V. THE ‘PROVINCIAL LETTERS’
VI. THE ‘PENSÉES’
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
New Solutions for House Museums
Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of America's Historic Houses
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
A generational shift is occurring at historic house museums as board members and volunteers retire while few young people step forward to take their place. These landmarks are also plagued by serious deferred maintenance, and many have no endowment funds. What will happen to these sites in the next...
by Daryl Fischer, Laura B. Roberts, principal
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Executive Transitions is volume three in the Museum Trustee Association’s Templates for Trustees series. The book and customizable web-based templates feature tools that help boards to consider their options, identify their priorities, and plan their actions at this critical moment in a museum’s...
The Queer Life of Things
Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
In The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human, Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones offer readers a series of chapters united in their fascination with the animals, plants, and things with whom we share and compose our lives. Harris and Holman Jones pick up and follow...
by Michael McKenzie, National Director/CEO, The Dream Factory; Retired Principal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Arrowhead: Home of the Chiefs is a monument to imaginative and aesthetic sports arena architecture, still after 25 seasons. While other arenas of its era are being replaced, Arrowhead continues to draw compliments as the best there is for football. Relive 25 years of Kansas City Chiefs football history...
by Daryl Fischer, Laura B. Roberts, principal
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Templates for Trustees is a four-part series designed by the Museum Trustee Association to focus attention on key processes and tasks of governance. The books and web-based customizable templates include tools that collect information and then guide the board in using that information to organize...
Integrating Key Skills in Higher Education
Employability, Transferable Skills and Learning for Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This text addresses both the issues and practicalities of key skills in higher education. It discusses the issues relating to the introduction of key skills, drawing on both the arguments and theory of why key skills should (or should not) be introduced. Case study material is included.
by Daryl Fischer, Laura B. Roberts, principal
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The Leadership Partnership is volume two in the Museum Trustee Association’s Templates for Trustees series. The book and customizable web-based templates feature tools that help boards to consider their options, identify their priorities, and plan their actions at this critical moment in a museum’s...
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