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Crowd Control
Classroom Management and Effective Teaching for Chorus, Band, and Orchestra
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Crowd Control 2nd edition is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus. This practical 'how-to' guide shows teachers, pre-service or experienced, efficient ways to manage large performance-based classrooms. With wit...
Resource Management for School Administrators
Optimizing Fiscal, Facility, and Human Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Resource Management for School Administrators is the only comprehensive book covering all school resources---fiscal, facilities and human resources. Each chapter has objectives that are aligned with the new ELCC and ISLCC standards on accreditation. Many of the federal and various state policies and...
Debating Single-Sex Education
Separate and Equal?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.
Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.
This book examines the...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
It's the Classroom, Stupid
A Plan to Save America's Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research. The...
Financial Accounting for School Administrators
Tools for School
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
An update to Financial and Managerial Accounting for School Administrators: Superintendents, School Business Administrators and Principals, this book and CD includes current best practices, GASB pronouncements, and web-based applications. It also provides school administrators with important accounting...
Resistance to Change
A Guide to Harnessing Its Positive Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Resistance is at the heart of the change process, yet it is often overlooked or perceived as a negative force. This book explores resistance as a natural, positive, and necessary component of change. Twenty discrete resistance factors_likely to be found in a variety of circumstances_are described....
Changing Schools from the Inside Out
Small Wins in Hard Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
At any time, public schools labor under great economic, political, and social pressures that make it difficult to create large-scale, 'whole school' change. But current top-down mandates require that schools close achievement gaps while teaching more problem solving, inquiry, and research skills_with...
Teaching America
The Case for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
Leading School Change
Maximizing Resources for School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This CHOICE award winning author has teamed up with two national school change experts to write a comprehensive book on school change management. Everything you need to know on initiating and managing school change are covered: planning change, conditions for successful change, models for improvement,...
Why the Principalship?
Making the Leap from the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book provides step-by-step, concrete advice for aspiring school administrators as they strive to achieve principal certification. Each chapter's snapshots illustrate key challenges that face principal candidates. The last third of the book includes exercises that help candidates and mentors,...
by School Business Officials Int'l, Association of
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2003
Every aspect of maintenance and operations is covered in this compilation of information-packed articles from School Business Affairs. Articles cover topics ranging from contracting out and the environment to energy and safety issues.
Transforming the Curriculum
Thinking Outside the Box
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Do you want to cultivate independent learners through an integrated curriculum? Schramm uncovers the theories behind the design of an integrated curriculum and provides a practical framework for implementation. After discussing the necessity of staff development strategies, appropriate text sources,...
Checklist for Change
A Pragmatic Approach for Creating and Controlling Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Now in Paper! Helpful examples from both the public and private sectors and from literature and history are presented in this outstanding volume for superintendents, central-office administrators, and corporate managers involved in the change process.