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This book offers a new perspective on the professional world of higher education. Using social practice theory, it presents a practice sensibility rooted in concepts which illuminate teaching and learning contexts. The book takes the reader through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922607362Author Deborah PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Amba PressPublisher Amba PressWeight(grams) 272g

Raising Boys' Achievement explores the causes of boys' underachievement and moves on to suggest tried-and-tested strategies to raise standards of achievement. The book encourages and challenges teachers to devise solutions based on research with their...

Help your child succeed with a better understanding of Common Core Math Common Core Math For Parents For Dummies is packed with tools and information to help you promote your child's success in math. The grade-by-grade walk-through brings you up to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913871109Author Selena WattsFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Wryting LtdPublisher Wryting Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991862665Author Denver FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Word & Deed Publishing IncorporatedPublisher Word & Deed Publishing...

`This is a distance-learning text for a university MBA course but it is easy to recommend it also as a free-standing, clearly written and comprehensive induction to the subject. NPQH candidates should grab it' - Management in Education This textbook...

`A highly recommendable and powerful work...I have found this book to be both a revelatory mirror on past events and an inviting window to future prospects. I am certain that it will be of equal or greater value to all those involved and interested in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999580196Author Drake E TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint New Insights PressPublisher New Insights PressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Deepen the dialogue to address racial disparities in your organization Schools, like all organizations, face a nearly insurmountable hurdle when addressing racial inequities-the inability to talk candidly about race. In this timely update, author Glenn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946444790Author Jay BillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.Publisher Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542661Author Nettrice R. GaskinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

LEADING SCHOOL TURNAROUND Leading School Turnaround offers new perspectives and concrete, evidence-based guidelines for the educational leaders and administrators faced with the challenge of turning our low-performing schools around. Using the tools...

Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic...

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Today, nearly every aspect of higher education - including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property - is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and...

A fatal flaw in accountability programs is the fragmented university that leaves academic departments-the units most responsible for institutional results-out of the performance loop. Currently, decentralization fosters a disabling disconnect among...

`This is a zippy read arising out of the international project "effective leadership in a time of change", which grapples with the nature and practice of leadership (as opposed to management or administration) in schools' - Times Educational Supplement ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999888506Author Michael T MurdockFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Ins-Edu CompanyPublisher Ins-Edu CompanyWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS, local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every day; a waste of money, resources and, most of all, of opportunity. A school's practice is...

This text examines the implications of government policy for the curriculum, the professionalism of educational practitioners, and the training and career options of young people. It argues for a new educational agenda which recognizes the importance of...

A principal's job is astonishingly complex, and its competing demands can be overwhelming, especially in the first few years. In this book, Jen Schwanke, a principal herself, provides a mentor's guidance to steer new principals through the period of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948334471Author Joe SanfelippoFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Impress, LPPublisher Impress, LPWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Classroom Assessment Techniques: Formative Feedback Tools for College and University Teachers A practical, research-based handbook for using assessment to improve learning. This completely revised and updated third edition of Classroom Assessment...

Master the Age of Complexity through innovative growth. From far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 to environmental and economic concerns, we're living in the Age of Complexity that will likely be with us for generations to come. How then can schools and...

`Aims to enhance management practice in education by presenting research findings and theory from a wide range of contributors' - Skills and Enterprise Update 'This is indeed a book which could be useful to a much larger readership than the normal...

The first volume to focus on race, ethnicity, and accent as elements of language teacher identity, a valuable guide for in-service teachers and teachers-in-training Language Teacher Identity presents a groundbreaking critical examination of how...

The inherited model of schooling based on same-age tutor groups is not only wrong but anti-learning and unsafe. When examined from a systems perspective, the assumptions are revealed. This explains why schools fail to respond to reform and why reform is...

The theory, research, and practice of communication planning The field of school and community communications is rapidly evolving and becoming more complex. Focusing on successfully implementing communication activities with both internal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951600808Author Pamela SedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Dave Burgess ConsultingPublisher Dave Burgess ConsultingWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

"This practically-focused, evidence-informed, perceptive book by James Ogunleye will be essential reading for teachers of 14-19 year olds in FE for a long time to come, and I thoroughly commend it to you." - Dr Jill Jameson, Series Editor. This is a...

The job of school leader has become progressively more demanding. The role includes increasingly complex problems to be solved and increasingly deep piles of paperwork to complete. Unfortunately, the managing of employees, the preparing and justifying...

The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability,...

What sort of institution is education? In this iconoclastic study, James Donald restores the school to its proper place at the heart of post-Enlightenment culture and politics. He traces the emergence of education as an apparatus designed-forlornly-to...

American education as we know it today-guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country-is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner...

Approaching school development as a training project for all staff, this book will help schools to work towards collectively selected goals. Excitingly, it also shows how to involve parents, governors and, most importantly, the pupils. This is in sharp...

This book explores the development of educational leadership within difficult contexts via the lens of a previously failing English secondary school in an area of urban poverty. Based on extensive interview data from 2012-2016, the authors demonstrate...

This is the long-awaited second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students. The authors review their earlier findings and then synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935542667Author Richard DufourFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Solution TreePublisher Solution Tree

THE ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENT CHAIR This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles. This book is about the "how" of academic...