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Solutions
Tools and Strategies for Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
This easy-to-read book integrates research and performance-based concepts in order to demystify and debunk the conventional wisdom about education. For many years, education has been beset by myths — myths that it can't be fixed with new concepts, that it takes specialists to diagnose what's wrong,...
by Rosemary Papa, Fenwick W. English
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
There's no mystery in turning around low-performing or failing schools, but there are also no recipes. In Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools Rosemary Papa and Fenwick English identify the essential ingredients for success. The causes of failure are complex and interactive. Schools are...
Creating Effective Presentations
Staff Development with Impact
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Creating Effective Presentations: Staff Development with Impact presents a comprehensive approach to creating compelling, interactive staff development sessions. The book is highly practical, summing up important research in the field of visual communication, graphic design, and presentation skills...
Why Students Underachieve
What Educators and Parents Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2006
Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade. Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It focuses on the need to understand how prevalent trauma is in the lives of our students and how it impacts the brain, subsequent learning, and behavior. This...
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher
Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
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. It is written by teachers primarily for teachers...
Meaningful Conversations
The Way to Comprehensive and Transformative School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Imagine a school in which gathering around the table to have meaningful conversations is commonplace and unencumbered by roles and positions. Such discourse is not only meaningful, but also significant, purposeful, valuable, filled with intention, and result oriented. There is a spirit of trust that...
Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders
Critical Issues, Useful Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school...
The Standards-Based Administrative Internship
Putting the ISLLC Standards into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
As an applied field, educational administration must be learned through experiencing its myriad tasks and challenges. Whether you are the mentor or the intern, you will find a wealth of helpful information and guidance about designing field experiences for individuals who are involved in the clinical...
The Professoriate: Challenges and Promises
The Third Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
The 1995 NCPEA Yearbook is organized into five major sections. The first, The Landscapes of Change: Challenges for Professors of Educational Administration, contains four chapters that frame the major themes and issues of the 1994 conference. In Section 2, Educational Leadership and Development Program:...
by William Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1997
Provides information to help administrators organize school structure, advance effective techniques, increase worker satisfaction, and promote productivity.
Supervision in Education
A Differentiated Approach with Legal Perspectives Instructor's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Now there is a text that provides students with a comprehensive blueprint for supervisory practice in the field of education. In Supervision in Education Bernadette Marczely draws on her expertise in both law and education to fully explain different methods of supervision and to carefully identify...
The Curriculum Management Audit
Improving School Quality
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
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Using Test Data for Student Achievement
Answers to No Child Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Schools are drowning in test data, but many schools do little with test results other than sort students into various categories of proficiency or lack thereof. Some educators feel testing has taken the joy out of teaching. Others believe valuable instructional time has been lost as a result of testing....
How to be Involved in Program Evaluation
What Every Adminstrator Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
The purpose of this book is to improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by program directors in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator. The authors contend that both of these goals can best be met by understanding each individual role.
How to be Involved...