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An Instructor Primer for Adjunct and New Faculty
Foundations for Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Look no further if you are new to a teaching career in higher education regardless whether you are doing it full or part time. Your passion to share your wealth of knowledge and skills is a good beginning. However, you need to know the higher education environment from the classroom to the office...
by Keen J. Babbage
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Have you ever left a meeting feeling that nothing had actually been accomplished? This book provides you with the keys to running a successful and efficient meeting. Babbage begins with a section on how to prepare effectively for a meeting, methods for running a concise meeting, and finishes with...
Leading without Being Stung
The Instructional Leader Meets the Apiarist
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Leading without Being Stung offers practitioners a repertoire of eight, research-supported strategies for affecting teaching performance. In each of the chapters the reader will find: 1) a description of a dimension of supervision and key research that speaks to the key elements of the dimension;...
The Dream and the Reality of Teaching
Becoming the Best Teacher Students Ever Had
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The dream of teaching is that a career in teaching can be fascinating, meaningful, inspiring, and rewarding. The reality of teaching is that a career in teaching can be exhausting, frustrating, heart-breaking, and disappointing. How can the dream endure and thrive while the reality is confronted and...
Building Transitional Programs for Students with Disabilities
How to Navigate the Course of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Preparing students with disabilities for adult living is a challenge for schools. This book serves as a guide for parents, students, teachers and school administrators to build transition programs at the secondary level to facilitate a successful transition from school to adult living. It is research-based...
Hidden Dangers to Kids' Learning
A Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book marks a new beginning, providing a way for parents to understand and help their academically struggling children. Both parents and children should be empowered to recognize the perils and pitfalls of the current educational crisis and take responsibility for and control of education before...
Hidden Dangers
Subtle Signs of Failing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Hidden Dangers in our schools have grown and intensified over the last few years; so much so that I was compelled to write a second edition to Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools. Our schools are complex places; each with its own unique climate, administration, faculty, students, parents...
Pivot Principal
A Principal's Guide to Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This book will guide the reader to develop a personal leadership style for entrepreneurial success. The practical strategies and implementation notes will guide the reader to define a personal success style, promote team support and keep life in balance while working in a position that can feel chaotic...
Creating a Successful Leadership Style
Principles of Personal Strategic Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Creating a Successful Leadership Style gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or assistant principal faces on a day-to-day basis and provides strategies to address them. These strategies derive from a leadership style that is people...
Getting and Keeping New Teachers
Six Essential Steps from Recruitment to Retention
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are on the fast track in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and...
The Study of the American Superintendency, 2000
A Look at the Superintendent of Education in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
The Study of the American School Superintendency, 2000 is the ninth 10-Year Study of the American School Superintendent commissioned by AASA. This 174-page reference work on the superintendency is the largest and most comprehensive look at the men and women leading our nation's public schools. It...
Year-Round Education
Change and Choice for Schools and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Over the last 20 years, many districts and schools have begun to explore year-round education or a modified calendar in response to student under-achievement in low performing schools. Here, the authors detail their two-year study of Title I, year-round, or modified calendar schools that switched...
Marketing Your Educational Leadership Skills
How to Land the Job You Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
In recent years, research that has identified instructional leadership as a key ingredient in effective schools has meant that attention has been directed increasingly at the ways in which future school administrators are being prepared. As a consequence, many universities have worked to develop administrator...
Embracing the Social and the Creative
New Scenarios for Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The guiding idea of this book concerns the nature of teacher education in the future, viewing the understanding of the history of teacher education in different context as the basis for future development. Special emphasis is given to matters of race and gender as well as on the special status and...