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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 9781665901406Author PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm *...

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 Khushru Shanoor Khushru MirzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint DattsonsPublisher Dattsons

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524962098Author Theresa MontanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

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...

In The Four Cultures of the Academy, William H. Bergquist identified four different, yet interrelated, cultures found in North American higher education: collegial, managerial, developmental, and advocacy. In this new and expanded edition of that classic...

For the K-12 supervising school administrator, here is a practical working tool for stimulating the professional growth of your staff during faculty meetings and other in-service workshops throughout the school year.About the AuthorRonald T. Hyman, Ed.D...

Islamic religious education (IRE) in Europe has become a subject of intense debate during the past decade. There is concern that states are doing too little or too much to shape the spiritual beliefs of private citizens. State response to the concern...

In this collection of interviews, presidents and chancellors of some of America's most respected universities candidly reflect on their experiences during the decade leading up to the twenty-first century and immediately following it. This was a time of...

A reflection on the importance of school leaders role amidst the ENE reform and the progress that has been made by the implementation of the reform despite several challenges that school leaders and teachers have encountered.Book InformationISBN...

Sponsored by the Conflict Resolution Education Network "Far and away the most comprehensive guide available.... Warterspresents a wide range of possible program structures and providesthe information that organizers and participants need to select...

Facilitating a Collegial Department in Higher Education Written for department chairs and deans, this well-researched resource offers a practical reference for how to create and sustain a more civil and harmonious departmental culture. Filled with useful...

Although traditional curriculum and instructional leadership frameworks have dominated educational administration training for almost thirty years, it has become increasingly clear that even the most recent frameworks have failed today's leaders who...

This book contains 158 speeches for the professional educator on virtually every subject related to education, all ready to use "as is" or adapt to the occasion.About the AuthorP. Susan Mamchak has held a variety of positions in education, from classroom...

Foreword by Kenneth A. Feldman Not since Feldman and Newcomb's 1969 landmark book, TheImpact of College on Students has there been such acomprehensive resource available on what is known about the effectof college on students. In this book, Pascarella...

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...

Improve student enrollment outcomes and meet institutional goals through the effective management of student enrollments. Published with the American Association for Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), the Handbook of Strategic...