Leadership

Empowering Excellence inspires a revolution in teaching and assessment practices. These methods of teaching and grading represent a major step ahead in how teachers assess and interact with students. Empowering Excellence presents 12 significant "shifts"...

This book constitutes a collection of case studies that explore issues faced by school principals as is related to instructional leadership. The scenarios presented here allow students to gain a more thorough understanding of the Professional Standards...

Tim L. Adsit's Passport to Success is the resource that will help educators and administrators successfully move from one destination to the next, in both professional and personal worlds. Use this helpful guide to clarify personal, career, and financial...

Dewey's Democracy and Education Revisited focuses on democratic schools/democratic education and the work of teacher and leader practitioners in the new millennium, taking into consideration the complex and dynamic nature of preparing leaders for...

Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been viewed previously as service to, extension of, and outreach from is now engagement with as faculty...

Educating from the Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education is based on the questions: 'What does it mean to educate from the heart? What does it mean to educate with spirit?' It offers both theoretical overviews and...

Education in the twenty-first century demands that we examine school practices as never before. The research on teacher effectiveness abounds. It has influenced federal, state and local policies resulting in changed certification practices and improved...

Making Learning Job-Embedded: Cases from the Field of Instructional Leadership is a book for sitting principals, aspiring principals, and teacher leaders. This edited volume includes studies that describe and detail findings from dissertation research...

This book responds to the urgent need for instructional practices that recognize student diversity and cultural backgrounds as valuable assets. As the United States continues to grapple with policies that promote culturally dominant ideologies, the...

The Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools is a marriage between the Art of War and effective school leadership principles. It describes the mentality and actions school principals need in order to spearhead the process of successfully...

Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough...

Successful principals today need skills in both management and leadership because both are essential to achieve success in all facets of running a school-one is not necessarily more important than the other. However, there are not many books solely...

This book expands on the framework established in the original volume of Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching. It provides many examples that can be incorporated into any educational environment. It outlines the why, who, what, and how of a sound...

Educational leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for ways to improve the functioning of their institutions. This book provides them with a unique approach to diagnosing a school, school system or college's organizational health and...

If you are a leader at midlife trying to manage your career, your children, and aging parents, all while trying to move through an ever-complicated post-pandemic workplace, this book is for you. The Survival Guide for GenX Leaders is full of...

In Putting the Pieces Together: A Systems Approach to School Leadership, the author addresses the need for systems planning in school administration in an effort to assist principals and district leadership in the face of changing demands. In doing so,...

Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school. This book will teach you the exact same system that fire chiefs across the country have used to command...

Avoiding poor decisions in any facet of life starts by truly listening for the meaning in the messages we receive. In today's fast paced business environment: executives, managers and supervisors alike need to master the skill of effective listening to...

Effective leadership reflects both art and science. Background, theory, and knowledge is the science. Appropriate and effective application is the art. Conceptual and practical, this concise, easy to understand book is an excellent resource. The intent...

Whatever your profession, a common base of knowledge and standards of performance are required for admission to practice. As an educator, while it is true that the individual states administer actual licensure procedures, they do so based on core...

There is often a lack of preparation of new superintendents by universities and professional associations. Meanwhile, new school superintendents are so focused on getting the job that little time is spent on what it takes to be successful. What Every...

Palestini advances a new theory of educational leadership seen through the dual lens of critical theory and the Ignatian vision and its practical implications. A truly novel approach, the author strives to acquaint administrators and students of...

Leadership is a critical piece of managing a high performing public charter school. Understanding the issues and the challenges faced daily by school leaders takes on a significant role when creating, managing, and sustaining high expectations and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952812576Author Rebecca DufourFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Solution TreePublisher Solution TreeWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Leaders and aspiring leaders from all over the world are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed...

Communicating Effectively: Tools for Educational Leaders, second edition, provides a unique perspective for aspiring and practicing educational leaders to expand their problem-solving and conflict-resolution strategies. Starting with an exploration of...

Shaping Social Justice Leadership: Insights of Women Educators Worldwide contains evocative portraits of twenty-three women educators and leaders from around the world whose actions are shaping social justice leadership. Woven from words of their own...

This book teaches a process that will help both teachers and administrators plan for and conduct meetings that are meaningful, useful, and that generate results. The place to start this work is before the meeting even begins. A careful look at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636501123Author Dr Teresa A ByingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Gryphon HousePublisher Gryphon HouseWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

Leadership, coupled with learning, is an ongoing process in which everyone has a participatory role in school or district change efforts. Providing a useful antidote to the plethora of packaged curriculum and external professional development providers,...

Leadership, coupled with learning, is an ongoing process in which everyone has a participatory role in school or district change efforts. Providing a useful antidote to the plethora of packaged curriculum and external professional development providers,...

School leaders are constantly challenged by diverse students and conflicting interests between faculty and staff. They are often called upon to make sense of ethical quagmires, where rules might conflict with desired outcomes or personal values clash...

Discover how the crisis of a global pandemic allowed educators to improve learning across the pre-K-adult pipeline. While acknowledging the scale of loss and difficulty the COVID pandemic engendered within the field of education, this book focuses on how...

Authentic School Improvement for Authentic Leaders charts a full improvement journey of a school from a 'Requires Improvement' Ofsted rating, through a second, to a resounding 'Good'. It reveals the impact that a school leader can have on the motivation...

This book responds to the urgent need for instructional practices that recognize student diversity and cultural backgrounds as valuable assets. As the United States continues to grapple with policies that promote culturally dominant ideologies, the...

What do great leaders need to do to run great schools? This exciting new book from Jo Facer takes the theory, ideas, and vision that so many leaders share and translates it into the small steps that busy school leaders can take that together lead to big...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416632894Author Teresa D. HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Association for Supervision & Curriculum DevelopmentPublisher Association for...

Identifying and Growing Internal Leaders: A Framework for Effective Teacher Leadership offers a framework with corresponding rubrics anchored in TLMS, Teacher Leadership Competencies, PSEL, NELP, Danielson's Teaching Framework and NBPTS propositions...

This book will help readers develop their leadership skills by drawing from a higher purpose to find passion to lead purposefully and creatively. Team leaders will learn how to identify a problem from a 360-degree perspective to meet the needs of the...

Within the pages of this book you will meet six, K-12, practicing, public school administrators, and two university instructors who give concise study-and-practice guidance on two aims; 1) to build the awareness and capabilities to become a lead...