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A Ten-Minute Approach to Educational Leadership
A Handbook of Insights for All Level Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Educational leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for ways to improve the functioning of their institutions. This book provides them with a unique approach to diagnosing a school, school system or college’s organizational health and determining what interventions might be necessary...
Law and American Education
An Instructor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Educators working with Palestini's textbook Law and American Education: a Case Brief Approach will find this comprehensive pedagogical tool useful. It contains the full briefs for the cases excerpted in the text, as well as diacritical and pedagogical suggestions. In addition to chapter-by-chapter...
No Laughing Matter
The Value of Humor in Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Educators are not alone in perennially seeking the best leadership practices and applying them to their own leadership behavior. What constitutes effective leadership seems to be on the minds of people everywhere. Recently, there has been some seminal work done with regard to the role of humor in...
Level B: Student Text
hm Learning & Study Skills Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
Level B: Grades 3-4
Children of the elementary school age think differently than do older children, adolescents, or adults. They are more holistic in their interaction with the world. The hm Program presents study skills appropriate for young children, teaching them to listen, observe, and visualize...
Paradigm Lost
Leading America Beyond Its Fear of Educational Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
In Paradigm Lost, Spady explores the important changes in culture, instruction, school calendars and school agenda that school leaders must make to prepare students for the next millennium despite the fact that the current system of schooling leads to institutional inertia that counters the very changes...
Education Under Siege
Frauds, Fads, Fantasies and Fictions in Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This book analyzes each major reform--No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, grading schools, evaluating teachers, failing students, vouchers, charters, online virtual charters-- and finds them seriously wanting. We conclude with reforms that work actually helping teachers, kids, parents and communities.
Consensus
Education Reform Is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
As we consider the current status of educational reform, it is clear that the United States lacks a clear vision as to how to improve our schools. In the recent past, we have been able to gain support for ideas such as the need for special education programs, free and reduced lunches, pre-school programs,...
Winds of Change
Declaring War on Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
As culturally-diverse students feel trapped in failing public schools and abandoned by the system school choice offers a way out and a way up for students who have not succeeded in existing public schools. Many of the intractable problems that plague culturally diverse students are deeply rooted in...
Reviving Professional Learning Communities
Strength through Diversity, Conflict, Teamwork, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
A Professional Learning Community is undeniably one of the most effective processes out there for improving student achievement, as well a school’s overarching culture and climate. With such widespread notoriety, though, there has been a dilution of the true essence of the term. Understanding of...
Breaking the Cycle
How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
School administrators want to be better leaders, strategic planners, and stewards of their time and resources. Gary Ivory explains that technology, rather than an end in itself, is a powerful tool for administrators with these goals in mind. The compilation of expert advice in his book will walk the...
The Standards-Based Digital School Leader Portfolio
Using TaskStream, LiveText, and PowerPoint
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Here is a comprehensive, step-by-step approach for teaching school leader candidates and school leaders alike to develop a standards-based digital portfolio. The book and accompanying web sites provide three different templates and sample portfolios to choose from. In-depth instructions for the creation...
by Evelyn Hunt Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The...
From Student to Professor
Translating a Graduate Degree into a Career in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
From Student to Professor is the doorway through which readers experience graduate school life, from both sides of the lectern. This guide not only discusses how students may adjust to- and succeed in graduate school, but comprehensively prepares such students to apply their degrees in academia.
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