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How to Handle Staff Misconduct: A Practical Guide for School Principals and Supervisors by C. Edward Lawrence 9780761938149
Booksplease Price: £73.38Praise for the First Edition: `Whilst a wealth of material on disciplinary procedures already exists in this country... commentaries and advice are relatively short. In this very helpful manual... -
School Leadership From A to Z: Practical Lessons from Successful Schools and Businesses by Robert D. Ramsey 9780761938330
Booksplease Price: £38.86Robert D Ramsey blends practical business ideas, good practice, and commonsense ideas into lessons that all principals should find useful in their work' - Paul Young, 2002-2003 President, National... -
The Leadership Brain: How to Lead Today's Schools More Effectively by David A. Sousa 9780761939092
Booksplease Price: £91.61`As educators struggle with the demands of No Child Left Behind, David Sousa offers practical ideas for linking the research being done by neuroscientists to the real world of learning in the... -
Powerful Classroom Stories from Accomplished Teachers by Adrienne M. Mack-Kirschner 9780761939115
Booksplease Price: £76.20These stories from the classroom show us what powerful teaching and learning really looks like. The story-tellers are highly qualified teachers, all of whom have achieved or are candidates for... -
The Mentoring Year: A Step-by-Step Program for Professional Development by Susan K. Udelhofen 9780761939269
Booksplease Price: £44.47"The Mentoring Year is rich with experience and new ideas. I endorse it without reservation."Heidi Hayes JacobsPresident, Curriculum Designs, Inc.Adjunct Associate Professor, Teachers College,... -
Developing Learning Communities Through Teacher Expertise by Giselle O. Martin-Kniep 9780761946168
Booksplease Price: £73.14The author presents "internal capacity building" as an alternative to external professional development: "Not having to turn to expensive outside experts all the time is, in the long... -
Help! It's an Indoor Recess Day by Dori E. Novak 9780761975281
Booksplease Price: £35.74This is a practical collection of innovative ideas, games and creative management strategies for surviving indoor recess.Book InformationISBN 9780761975281Author Dori E. NovakFormat PaperbackPage... -
Principals of Dynamic Schools: Taking Charge of Change by Sharon F. Rallis 9780761976103
Booksplease Price: £33.45`A major contribution. The administrative accompaniment to the school restructuring and teacher empowerment movement' - Robert L Crowson, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL In this newly updated... -
Fiscal Fitness for School Administrators: How to Stretch Resources and Do Even More With Less by Robert D. Ramsey 9780761976073
Booksplease Price: £71.95This is the first comprehensive guide for making the most of all school resourses - and even thriving in times of dwindling funds. This no-nonsense handbook covers every aspect of fiscal fitness for... -
Students at Risk in At-Risk Schools: Improving Environments for Learning by Hersh Waxman 9780803940031
Booksplease Price: £80.36What can educational leaders and teachers do to assist at-risk students? This volume examines educators' responsibility for students who fail, the dropout issue and school reform; contributors also... -
The New American High School by David D. Marsh 9780803962255
Booksplease Price: £67.04This book pulls together the common themes of the many attempts at educational reform in the United States. It looks particularly at today's North American high school, where reform seems less... -
Grading Teachers, Grading Schools: Is Student Achievement a Valid Evaluation Measure? by Jason Millman 9780803964020
Booksplease Price: £40.86In an extensive review of teacher and school evaluation, one is not likely to find an issue more divisive than the question of how best, in high-stakes contexts, to evaluate how well teachers and... -
Getting Out of Line: A Guide for Teachers Redefining Themselves and Their Profession by Caren Black 9780803965034
Booksplease Price: £35.32This book identifies the classroom methodologies, curriculum and personal professional growth that are essential for ongoing school reform. The author honours the traditions of teaching while... -
Powerful Parent Letters for K-3 by M. Duggan 9780803965867
Booksplease Price: £38.31This timesaving book provides ready-made letters that primary school teachers can personalize and send to parents throughout the school year about important aspects of school life. Topics include:... -
Values and Valuation in the Practice of Educational Administration by Don Willower 9780803966321
Booksplease Price: £24.31The authors briefly examine the educational administration literature relevant to values and administrative practice, then present a general philosophical position which integrates values, practice... -
The Educator's Guide to Solutioning: The Great Things That Happen When You Focus Students on Solutions, Not Problems by Willyn H. Webb 9780803967496
Booksplease Price: £45.22Shows the reader how to be a solution-focused educator, creating students who control their own choices and behaviours. Within each chapters the reader will find language lessons, practice scenarios,... -
Let's Put Kids First, Finally: Getting Class Size Right by Charles M. Achilles 9780803968073
Booksplease Price: £37.73Building on many years' research on class size and student outcomes in the early primary grades of America's public schools, the author advocates class size reduction for increased student... -
Research on Professional Development Schools: Teacher Education Yearbook VII by David M. Byrd 9780803968301
Booksplease Price: £39.06The focus of this edited Yearbook is continuing teacher education and professional development. The book is divided into four sections, each dealing with different aspects in these subjects. Included... -
Mathematics Programs: A Guide to Evaluation by George W. Bright 9780803960442
Booksplease Price: £33.87This volume enables teachers and administrators to design, organize and conduct useful evaluations of their school mathematics programmes -- without the need to use complicated statistical procedures... -
Reshaping the Principalship: Insights From Transformational Reform Efforts by Joseph F. Murphy 9780803960800
Booksplease Price: £40.91This volume examines how the work of principals is being reshaped by transformational reform measures, as well as how the principals themselves are shaping initiatives. The authors explore the... -
Ethics in Educational Leadership Programs: An Expanding Role by Dr. Lynn G. Beck 9780803961494
Booksplease Price: £51.66In recent years, students and practitioners of educational administration have expressed concern over the increasing number and complexity of ethical dilemmas confronting school leaders. The authors... -
High Stakes Performance Assessment: Perspectives on Kentucky's Educational Reform by Thomas R. Guskey 9780803961692
Booksplease Price: £35.32The implementation of a 'high stakes', performace-based assessment system has resulted in financial rewards being granted to those schools demonstrating improved results, while sanctions have been... -
Weaving Science Inquiry and Continuous Assessment: Using Formative Assessment to Improve Learning by Maura O'Brien Carlson 9780761945901
Booksplease Price: £36.08Weaving Science Inquiry & Continuous Assessment explores the nature of continuous assessment in the context of science inquiry, and contains specific tools and techniques, along with stories and... -
Teachers Mentoring Teachers: A Practical Approach to Helping New and Experienced Staff by John C. Daresh 9780761945765
Booksplease Price: £35.94`Teachers Mentoring Teachers is timely, practical, and engaging - a welcome addition to the literature on retaining and providing meaningful professional development for teachers' - Sandra R Hurley,... -
Paying Teachers for What They Know and Do: New and Smarter Compensation Strategies to Improve Schools by Allan R. Odden 9780761978879
Booksplease Price: £80.27Praise for the First Edition: `It was refreshing to read a thorough exploration of such a complex issue. The ideas which are proposed are of interest ot policy makers, trade union negotiators adn... -
Staff Development Programs: A Guide To Evaluation by Terry W. Mullins 9780803960459
Booksplease Price: £29.78By illustrating sound evaluation practices with realistic examples, this book provides an essential guide to each aspect of analyzing staff development programmes in schools. The author pays special... -
School-Based Management as School Reform: Taking Stock by Joseph F. Murphy 9780803961753
Booksplease Price: £67.67In the book, Joseph Murphy and Lynn G Beck provide a clear understanding of the organizational form, operating characteristics and outcomes of School-Based Management (SBM) in the United States... -
The School Administrator Internship Handbook: Leading, Mentoring, and Participating in the Internship Program by Ronald L. Capasso 9780761976561
Booksplease Price: £78.67This book provides those involved with the preparation of school administrators with andoverview of the internship as a central ingredient of effective pre-service programmesA critical assumption... -
Guiding Change in Special Education: How to Help Schools With New Ideas and Practices by Ronald G. Havelock 9780761939641
Booksplease Price: £92.49The book presents a seven-stage model of school change (and sustained change) designed specifically to help schools move to integrated and improved services for special education students. The... -
Teacher Peer Assistance and Review: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Administrators by Lorin W. Anderson 9780761976936
Booksplease Price: £62.76This book is about developing a Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) programme, where teacher partnership through joint responsibility improves the quality of teaching, strengthens teacher... -
Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades K-6 by Gayle H. Gregory 9780761988816
Booksplease Price: £39.92'The authors of this book offer numerous strategies that not only help our students organise and develop their thoughts and learning but also help us, the busy teachers, to plan ahead and ensure that... -
Using Web and Paper Questionnaires for Data-Based Decision Making: From Design to Interpretation of the Results by Susan J. Thomas 9780761938835
Booksplease Price: £41.25Most books on survey research focus on research methodology and are not practical and user-friendly. Susan J Thomas' book will contain information on web-based surveys, a topic missing in most books... -
Show Me the Evidence!: Proven and Promising Programs for America's Schools by Robert E. Slavin 9780803967113
Booksplease Price: £35.50Designed to help educators, policy makers and researchers evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes and policies intended to improve student achievement, this book presents reviews of... -
Assessing and Training Secondary School Administrators: A Practical Workbook for Selecting Candidates and to Developing Their Skills Once They're On Board by G.Steven Griggs 9780803968943
Booksplease Price: £37.94Covering a variety of legal, moral, ethical, financial and public relations issues, this book can be used to evaluate prospective secondary school administrators train newly appointed administrators,... -
Teach More and Discipline Less: Preventing Problem Behaviors in the K-6 Classroom by Barbara Reider 9780761988939
Booksplease Price: £37.82`The book is a comprehensive and practical work addressing the issues of today's classrooms, and it is written by a person well-aware of how demanding teaching can be' - Ole Bang-Larsen, Chief... -
Performance-Based Curriculum for Language Arts: From Knowing to Showing by Helen L. Burz 9780803965096
Booksplease Price: £30.62This book is based on the content and performance standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Language Arts in the United States. It provides a step-by-step guide to developing... -
Getting the Schools You Want: A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Your Own Curriculum Management Audit by Kimberly M. Logan 9780803965447
Booksplease Price: £38.53Curriculum management audits are rapidly becoming powerful tools for school improvement in the United States. This book is a clear, step-by-step guide to conducting such an audit.Book InformationISBN... -
Classroom Volunteers: Uh-Oh! or Right On! by Joanne C. Wachter Ghio 9780803968813
Booksplease Price: £30.02This practical book addresses one of the most difficult problems teachers have to face, that of making use of the community and parent volunteers in their classroom. Without a detailed plan of... -
What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success by William W. Purkey 9780803966956
Booksplease Price: £35.35This book is about the inner voice of the self. It addresses the ways students, teachers, and others speak to themselves about who they are and how they fit in the world.Book InformationISBN... -
How to Land the Best Jobs in School Administration: The Self-Help Workbook for Practicing and Aspiring School Administrators by Georgia J. Kosmoski 9780803967991
Booksplease Price: £36.14This self-help book is written for the individual who wants to actively seek a position in school administration. The author provides workbook exercises, activities, and information sections to help...