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by Vicki Gunther, James McGowan, Kate Donegan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Gunther, McGowan and Donegan draw on their own experiences and those of others in the field, to explain the importance of communication in school leadership. In focusing on the communication process—why it's critical for schools, and how it can be executed well—they make the case that communication...
Distressed or Deliberately Defiant?
Managing challenging student behaviour due to trauma and disorganised attachment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
It is not unusual for educators today, whether in the early childhood, primary or secondary sectors, to be confronted with severely challenging student behaviour — students who fly into unexplained violent and oppositional outbursts with little warning; who respond poorly to tried-and-true behaviour...
by Richard J. Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1974, this introductory text has been designed specifically for teachers in training, and it presents the basic psychological principles governing learning, perception, motivation and the retention of knowledge at the time. The text is carefully tailored for would-be teachers...
Discipline in Schools
Psychological Perspectives on the Elton Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
What can schools and teachers do to promote discipline in the classroom? How do discipline and learning interact?
The Elton Committee was set up in 1989 to consider ‘what action can be taken to secure the orderly atmosphere necessary in schools for effective teaching and learning to take...
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
Minding the Dream
The Process and Practice of the American Community College
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar.
New employees, current leaders, graduate students, legislators, and boards of trustees need...
Practical Leadership in Community Colleges
Navigating Today's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Anticipate, manage, and overcome the complex issues facing community colleges
Practical Leadership in Community Colleges offers a path forward through the challenges community colleges face every day. Through field observations, reports, news coverage, and interviews with leaders and policy...
Remaking College
The Changing Ecology of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Between 1945 and 1990 the United States built the largest and most productive higher education system in world history. Over the last two decades, however, dramatic budget cuts to public academic services and skyrocketing tuition have made college completion more difficult for many. Nevertheless,...
More High School Graduates
How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A proven system to boost high school graduation rates
This guide helps school leaders and government policymakers boost high school graduation rates. Drawing from his knowledge as an education official and professor, author Ben Levin presents a system to turn around secondary schools that is...
Community College Student Success
From Boardrooms to Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies...
by Richard C. Levin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin’s retirement as president of Yale University, this captivating collection of speeches and essays from the past decade reflects both his varied intellectual passions and his deep commitment to university life and leadership. Whether discussing the...
Values-Driven Leadership
Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
What are the core values of your ministry?
Values-Driven Leadership is a pioneering work designed to help church and parachurch leaders understand the cutting-edge concept of organizational core values. Every ministry organization has a set of core values that guides what the ministry seeks...
The Agile Church
Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
A groundbreaking and essential guide to opening up the concept of church and achieving spiritual renewal in the 21st century.
Taking one page from the Bible and another from Silicon Valley, priest and scholar Dwight J. Zscheile brings theological insights together with cutting-edge thinking...
by Florian S. Gust
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
When it comes to new media, political candidates need to know all their options, in order to make the right decisions on how to use the internet and social networks for their election efforts. To get the most out of all the different services and implement them successfully into their campaigns, candidates...