Jim Caldwell: 10 books

Kids reveal them. Lovers share them. Families have them. Secrets bind us together like nothing else. A heinous crime casts Meghan and April together after hours at a deserted transit stop in Chicago.The effect is two women forge an enduring bond. Both nurses by profession, they uncover each...

At nineteen, Chase Mullen leaves his small town home in rural Pennsylvania in search of himself, traveling throughout the west, working odd jobs to survive, staying with friends he makes along the way, and ends up in New York City to make his fortune on Wall Street. But the nine-to-five stressful...

Danielle shows up at Baventine Preparatory Academy in northern Virginia in September of her senior year. Randy is love-struck at first sight. He invites her to join their small geocaching club for fun. But soon the group of high school coeds become entangled in a mystery, and the two teenagers discover...

When Jamar Clark’s girlfriend leaves without giving any explanation, he retreats to Topsail Island, his beach haven in North Carolina, to sort things out for the summer and get his head together. Rather than an end of a relationship, the move opens up a whole new world for the twenty-seven year...

In 1988, Hunter’s first real love at college in New York holds a menacing secret. In Ohio, Julie’s marriage is on the verge of a divorce and complicated with a mid-life unplanned pregnancy. And outside of Harrisburg, Father Greg, a Franciscan friar, still battles past demons from the Vietnam War....

The Self-Transforming School combines an insightful meta-analysis of factors contributing to the success of schools, and an examination of powerful mega-trends that are shaping developments in education, to offer the first mega-analysis in education policy and practice. The book spans fifty years,...

The broad approach of local management of schools or self-managing schools is now widely accepted. In Britain, there is even consensus between the three major political parties that the approach should be continued and extended. A key issue, though, is what comes next for self- managing schools? Drawing...

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Raising the Stakes provides an understanding of the breadth of resources that are needed in order to provide a quality education to all students so that every individual, organisation and institution can become a stakeholder in the enterprise. This comprehensive book draws on best practice...

This work is a sequel to The Self-Managing School and deals with leadership responsibilities on two levels - as head of a school responsible for loca management and as a director in a Local Education Authority responsible