Leadership

District Leadership for Racial Equity shows how transformative changes can occur across diverse districts when leaders take purposeful action in support of racial equity.Developed as part of the Racial Equity Leadership Network initiative led by Southern...

This comprehensive book provides a theoretical understanding of how imagination contributes to effective leadership, as well as practical tools all educational leaders can employ to cultivate their imaginations and the imaginations of others in their...

This book argues that teachers' active participation in policy advocacy is crucial to creating a K-12 educational system that honors the needs of students, families, and communities. The authors examine obstacles to teacher involvement in policy, analyze...

Every child, no matter their starting point or background and no matter their additional and different needs, should have an equitable chance of success at school. This first book in the Equity in Education series looks at how schools can foster a better...

Rural School Leadership: Lessons from Alaska is a guide for leaders in rural schools. The book tells stories, provides clear examples, and provides practical school improvement strategies. Throughout the book, authors discuss how leaders can help their...

Rural School Leadership: Lessons from Alaska is a guide for leaders in rural schools. The book tells stories, provides clear examples, and provides practical school improvement strategies. Throughout the book, authors discuss how leaders can help their...

Actionable, road-tested approaches to understanding and tackling poverty in schoolsThe stark reality of poverty and disadvantage in our communities is one of the biggest challenges faced by schools today. Schools need better understanding of the broader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682539828Author Shelley ZionFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Harvard Education PRPublisher Harvard Education PR

Why do some school systems and organizations outperform their peers despite using similar strategies and materials? Look to leadership, system design, and implementation, not policies and rules, and the answer begins to take shape. This book offers a new...

Use this indispensable guide to elevate your leadership practices to improve your school's teaching and learning. Designed to empower today's K-12 school leaders, this book will help you develop and implement a robust, systemwide approach to fostering...

Why do some school systems and organizations outperform their peers despite using similar strategies and materials? Look to leadership, system design, and implementation, not policies and rules, and the answer begins to take shape. This book offers a new...

Codified Leadership draws from research and evidence-based practices to provide every school leader - regardless of their experience - with authentic opportunities to improve and transform them into the very best leader. It breaks down complex leadership...

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...

The A-Z of Independent School Leadership is a guide for school leaders organised around the 26 letters of the alphabet.About the AuthorGuy Holloway is the co-founder and former headmaster of Hampton Court House, an independent co-educational school in...

This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women's experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges. The respondents possess different educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648720263Author Brad FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint various Australia publishersPublisher various Australia publishersWeight(grams)...

A companion to Allan R. Odden's Education Policy Implementation, also published by SUNY Press, this book presents original work by a new generation of scholars contributing to education policy implementation research. The contributors define education...

Learning Group Leadership: An Experiential Approach equips readers with the basic information, theory, concepts, research, interventions, and guidelines required to help them develop into effective group leaders within a variety of settings. The book...

This book redefines leadership in early childhood education (ECE), offering fresh theoretical insights and practical approaches.Delving into the challenges of the workforce in the ECE sector, this book unravels the narrative of leadership development. It...

This book redefines leadership in early childhood education (ECE), offering fresh theoretical insights and practical approaches.Delving into the challenges of the workforce in the ECE sector, this book unravels the narrative of leadership development. It...

This book traces the policymaking processes of the Review of Funding for Schooling (2011), which fundamentally changed school funding policy in Australia. School funding is a key element of any equitable school system. This is because the distribution...

With the 5th Edition of Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement, best-selling Victoria Bernhardt has written the go-to-resource for data analysis in your school! By incorporating collaborative structures to implement, monitor, and evaluate the...

This book introduces mindfulness as an approach for enhancing the supervision of teachers and teacher candidates. Drawing on empirical research and the welcoming of mindfulness in public school classrooms, the author makes the case for embracing...

Changing Mindsets of Educational Leaders to Improve Schools responds to the dual question that all graduate and post-graduate programs should ask: As students learn about leadership, does their practice change? If so, does this changing practice result...

This book analyzes and synthesizes key elements of the most recent and dynamic emergent theory and practice of leadership-constructivist leadership. It presents the theory and practice in a down-to-earth, easy-to-read approach that removes fear and...

For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system-the district-has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The...

Unquestioned educational practices must be re-examined. Now, more than ever, we need to breathe new life into school leadership to bring much-needed hope for renewal into our classrooms and schools. Our humanity's future rests on the shoulders of our...

In this updated 2nd edition, the authors created a blueprint for educational leaders to arrive at an understanding of the complexity of shared leadership for achieving reflective school improvement. The dispositions for leadership success are embedded in...

This book is written on the behalf of mathematics teachers who have been asked to teach more conceptually while simultaneously motivating more students of all ability levels to willingly embrace further upper level mathematics content and courses. This...

Redefining Instructional Leadership: The Skills and Energy Required of an Instructional Leader focuses on how principals must be instructional leaders by first making building relationships a priority. Then, with those relationships that are built, the...

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,...

The dream of teaching is that a career in teaching can be fascinating, meaningful, inspiring, and rewarding. The reality of teaching is that a career in teaching can be exhausting, frustrating, heart-breaking, and disappointing. How can the dream endure...

A leader's position can be a lonely one even in the best of times. A school leader faces many challenges -some of them daunting. Principals and other school leaders benefit from good mentors, but now that many established principals are reaching...

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

Malcolm and Me describes the seven criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program to improve student achievement: leadership, strategic planning, student and market focus, information and analysis, faculty and staff satisfaction, process...

More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural...

In Making Schooling Relevant for the Global Age, R.D. Nordgren, Ph.D. contends that America's schools are failing to prepare our children for the global economy as well as failing to develop citizens willing and capable of sustaining the type of...

In this book, Zach Kelehear offers readers a new perspective on an important, dynamic, and sometimes daunting issue: managing successful school-based leadership. Kelehear uses an arts-based approach to weave together notions of research-based leadership...

A Companion Guide to Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership: Theory to Practice provides the reader with activities linked to the theoretical chapters, which no handbook has included to date. The overarching goal is the development of scholarly leaders...

Creating Excellence: Becoming an A+ School is intended to be used by first year principals who have inherited a school that is failing or not achieving to a desired level, as well as by seasoned principals who are struggling to improve their school's...