Administration category: 6852 books
Running Against the Wind
A Handbook for Presidents and Chancellors
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Leading an institution of higher education requires an understanding of the responsibilities of the position, the diversity of its constituencies, and the complexity of the environment. This volume describes the structure and function of campus leadership and the interests of constituent groups as...
Completing College
Rethinking Institutional Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success....
Achieving Student Success
Effective Student Services in Canadian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Hardy Cox and Strange begin with an overview of student services dealing with the matriculation of post-secondary students - through enrolment management, financial assistance, and orientation to the institution and accommodation - and then discuss housing and residence life, student leadership programs,...
How to be a "HIP" College Campus
Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”—utilizing high-impact educational practices widely and effectively. The book’s strength is numerous hands-on examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Workforce diversity refers to a strategy that promotes and supports the integration of human diversity at all levels and uses focused diversity and inclusion policies and practices to guide this approach in work environments. While this concept is not new, publications outlining the programming, curriculum,...
by Steven Greffenius
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Short essays about freedom and hope under our Constitution. Begins with a review of JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass. Articles investigate taxes and labor market freedom, health care, financial fraud, secrecy, torture, and citizens' right of revolution. Explores our obligation to replace...
Successful Group Work: 13 Activities to Teach Teamwork Skills
Teacher Tools, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Successful implementation and completion of group work activities requires instructors and students alike to confront challenges not present in individual work. To maximize learning, group projects need a solid lesson plan that helps students
understand the benefits of group work,
develop ground...
The School Leader's Guide to Formative Assessment
Using Data to Improve Student and Teacher Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This user-friendly guide shows school leaders how to use formative assessment to improve both student and teacher achievement. With step-by-step information and practical examples, this book will help you develop better assessments that will transform your school. You will learn:
The advantages...
Learning Targets
Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson--what they call "today's lesson"—or it doesn't happen at all.
The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning...
Strategies for Differentiating Instruction
Best Practices for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This updated second edition of the best-selling Strategies for Differentiating Instruction offers practical strategies that allow all students to learn at appropriately challenging levels and make continuous progress by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn. Written...
Advancing Differentiation
Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Powerful strategies that will transform the way you teach and the way your students learn.
Advancing Differentiation will lead you through the process of creating a thriving, student-centered, 21st-century classroom. Since its initial publication, the book’s materials have undergone rigorous...
by Dr. Jeffrey G. Glanz
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Improve instructional leadership with research-based practices and examples in the areas of quality teaching, enhanced curriculum, supportive supervision, and professional development.
Learning for Leadership
Developmental Strategies for Building Capacity in Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Prepare education leaders to support adult professional growth with this comprehensive guide!
Help foster an understanding of adult development that enables education leaders to support professional learning—or build capacity—across schools and districts with this one-of-a-kind resource....