R L R: 1250 books
Human Resource and Contract Management in the Public School
A Legal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
Human resource management, an essential part of public school administration, is particularly vulnerable to legal interpretation and challenge. Like all other institutions that receive federal funds, public schools have a unique rulebook that sets the parameters for management, particularly with respect...
Educating Scientists and Engineers
Grade School to Grad School
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1989
American Schools, colleges, and universities educate the scientists and engineers who replenish the technical work force. This report examines how and why students are drawn toward or deterred from pursuing a career in science or engineering. Schools, families, peers, informal education efforts (museums, science centers, etc.) all play a role.
Leading With Emotion
Reaching Balance in Educational Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
It is no surprise that successful school leaders have strong interpersonal skills. That they can communicate, motivate, resolve conflict, build teams, and persuade others at high levels is well documented by research. However, new research indicates that emotion plays a pivotal role in using these...
Commonsense Questions about Instruction
The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology?...
School-based Mental Health
A Framework for Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
School-based Mental Health: A Framework for Intervention provides essential steps for integrating community-based personnel and programs into school systems for the provision of mental health services. Based on the current school mental health research and practice landscape, the framework consists...
Site-Based Management in Education
How to Make It Work in Your School
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1996
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Promoting Your School
A Public Relations Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Schools today are experiencing pressures that have never been faced before. Very often members of the public do not know how their schools are doing, and as a result voters respond negatively. In Promoting Your School: A Public Relations Handbook, Irene Lober clearly describes various processes, methods,...
Equalize Student Achievement
Prioritizing Money and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
The challenge of proper school finance goes beyond having a balanced budget to finding strategies that maximize money to improve schools and equalize student achievement. School finance deals with how money works to support school operations and answer rigorous accountability such as the No Child...
Can Schools Survive?
Questions to Ask, Actions to Take
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue...
by Kent Freeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1994
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Demystify Math, Science, and Technology
Creativity, Innovation, and Problem-Solving
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In a rapidly evolving local and global economy, skills related to mathematical problem solving, scientific inquiry, and technological innovation are becoming more critical for success in and out of school. Thus, Demystify Math, Science, and Technology addresses the need to cultivate these skills in...
Student Relevance Matters
Why Do I Have to Know This Stuff?
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Classrooms are systems, schools are systems, and schooling in the United States is a big system. Changing any of those systems requires an awareness of how they work; what they produce; and where to apply time, energy, and resources. Current systems couldbe much better in meeting students' current...
by James F. McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Explores how to define problems, recognize research design issues, and how to interpret data from surveys. Designed to serve the information needs of researchers, analysts, and administrators needing statistical tools for educational research, the presentation is oriented to research for school improvement. Problems with answers included.
Certifiable
Teaching, Learning, and National Board Certification
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
For anyone who was a candidate for National Board certification or might be a candidate in the future, Certifiable: Teaching, Learning, and National Board Certification is a must-read book. Dr. Lustick (NBCT, 1998 & 2008) explores all aspects of the certification process in an accessible and meaningful...