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First published in 2009, this ground-breaking work introduced a new field in Africana studies and laid the groundwork for positioning the teachings of Elijah Muhammad in academia. Today, this work remains a rare opportunity for scholars and lay persons...

The chapters in this text are designed to provide administrators and leaders with background and strategy to help assist them in designing their own "play" calls when dealing with employees, unions, and labor leadership. Each chapter herein...

An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learning As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond...

As school districts struggle with decentralized management, theneed to coordinate grant proposal development has growndramatically. This indispensable resource contains all thepractical tools that districts need to manage cross-curricularproposals for...

Raise the level of rigor in your school and dramatically improve student learning with the tools in this book! In Rigor in Your School: A Toolkit for Leaders, Second Edition, each illuminating exercise is tailored to leaders looking to spread the word on...

This "how-to" resource gives K-12 school principals and other supervisory personnel a comprehensive action plan for improving teaching, student achievement, and student test scores.- Step-by-step, the author shows the reader all aspects of...

The Guide covers changing school programs, staffing for effective discipline, and cutting-edge approaches such as peer counseling for dealing with student values and problems that are drastically different from those of only a few years ago.About the...

How can school leaders foster more effective teamwork and collaboration among teachers to improve instruction and culture? Brad Johnson and Robert Hinchliffe use the analogy of geese V formations to show what effective teamwork really looks like for...

Give insights into teacher’s pay system design for education policy makers in developing countries Offers valuable experience of the merit pay reform in china Provides a theoretical framework of teacher’s compensation system to attract and retain high...

This book explores the multicultural and non-Western contexts behind the approaches, problems, and issues that arise in research methodologies when used in relation to educational administration and leadership. This volume argues that increasing...

Ethics and Educational Technology explores the creation and implementation of learning technologies through an applied ethical lens. The success of digital tools and platforms in today's multi-faceted learning and performance contexts is dependent not...

Overeducation is one of the most important mechanisms for labour market adjustment when there is an excess supply of highly skilled workers. However, there is much debate about the consequences of this phenomena and the short- and long-term effects for...

Explore how students are disrupting education by using digital resources to support self-direct learning Free Agent Learning: Leveraging Students' Self-Directed Learning to Transform K-12 Education explores an emerging cohort of students that are...

Harnessing Formative Data for K-12 Leaders prepares school and district leaders to re-evaluate how real-time formative data can inform policy, planning, and professional development. The importance of effective formative data use has escalated since the...

Filled with inspiring and sometimes difficult conversations, Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters focuses on discussions between educators of color and their white colleagues. Authors Tonya Perry, Steven Zemelman, and Katy Smith show us how...

Critical Resource Theory (CReT) offers an innovative critical perspective on education funding. This new conceptual lens enables school leaders and policy makers to analyze quantitatively school funding policies and practices as a catalyst to make them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773238111Author Dorothy SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 152g

""Why do I lead?"" With this deceptively simple question, best-selling author Baruti K. Kafele begins a powerful examination of what it takes to make a school community achieve the greatest success in the classroom and beyond. In The Principal 50:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780323911856Author Upasana Gitanjali SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Chandos PublishingPublisher Chandos PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171922277Author Shanoor K. MirzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint DattsonsPublisher DattsonsDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817998325Author Tibor R. MachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This book focuses on one of the key questions in education: What determines a student's success? Based on twenty years of work on student success, Ray Padilla here presents two related models he has developed that both provide a framework for...

This book explores the implications of focusing learning in university leadership. While a range of external and internal factors push contemporary higher education leaders towards a reactive and transactional style, the author argues that placing...

This book will be of value to those in the West and in the Middle East with an interest in the contemporary state of the higher educational system in the region and in comparative education in general. It concentrates on the Gulf, but the problems of...

The chapters in this text are designed to provide administrators and leaders with background and strategy to help assist them in designing their own "play" calls when dealing with employees, unions, and labor leadership. Each chapter herein...

A critical challenge for urban charter/autonomous/independent schools is finding educational leaders with the courage to lead with authenticity; integrity and ingenuity using standards based practices to effect transformational change within schools. Two...

This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the...

A concise and accessible text, The Superintendent's Rulebook explores the human-resource, political, and leadership dimensions of the superintendency. This important book is designed for new aspiring superintendents and Boards of Education, helping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682060322Author Vincent N ParrilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 306g

Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In Navigating Conflict, Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban youth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864489163Author Geoff ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863735247Author Judith ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 360g

A practical guide for school leaders and managers seeking concrete strategies for professional improvement Leading a learning community is a challenging endeavor that rewards those who build social-emotional and adaptive leadership competencies. In The...

This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for...

In recent years, federal mandates on education have become the subject of increasing debate. Adam R. Nelson's The Elusive Ideal - a postwar history of federal involvement in the Boston public school system - provides lessons from the past that shed light...

In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations have opened, many...

Throughout the last decade there has been an unprecedented amount of activity in curriculum policy, and recent years have seen the acceleration of that activity following the Education Reform Act of 1988. This reader is a selection of work which...

In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of...

This book presents and theorises research findings into why and how school principals play a critical role in engaging parents and their school communities to enhance student learning and wellbeing. It highlights the imperative of parent engagement as...

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the transformation of academic research at universities into the development of advanced technologies in industry, therefore enabling a full role of...