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Making Sense as a School Leader: Persisting Questions, Creative Opportunities
ISBN: 9780787901646 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A real contribution to an over-discussed subject.... This book reaches below the surface to the real issues and relationships that confront principles in their orchestration of the daily affairs of teachers, parents, and students.-
--Harold Howe II, former president of the Ford Foundation for Education and Public Policy Based on the work of the prestigious Harvard Principal's Center, this book shares some of the -sense- that practicing principals have made of their own complex experiences. The authors offer real-life case examples of typical leadership dilemmas in... -A real contribution to an over-discussed subject.... This book reaches below the surface to the real issues and relationships that confront principle...
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Leading to Change: The Challenge of the New Superintendency
ISBN: 9780787902148 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -There are so few 'must read' books about superintAndents that I would recommAnd to policymakers, researchers, and novices. Add Leading to Change to the list. This insightful chapters on political and managerial leadership alone are worth the price of the book.-
-- Larry Cuban, professor of education, Stanford University -There are so few 'must read' books about superintAndents that I would recommAnd to policymakers, researchers, and novices. Add Leading to Change to t...
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School Wars: How 20 World-Class Organizations Are Winning Through Teamwork
ISBN: 9780787902360 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School Wars examines the Religious Right's challenge to public education--from concerns about sex education to attempts to restrict specific works of literature and textbooks. It takes an objective look at such subjects as the current conflict concerning the role of fundamentalism, the so-called religion of secular humanism, the state of public education, and global education and multiculturalism.
Drawing on their combined backgrounds of religious study and practice, as well as years of experience working in the field of education, the authors present research in educational... School Wars examines the Religious Right's challenge to public education--from concerns about sex education to attempts to restrict specific works of ...
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Education and Technology: Reflections on Computing in Classrooms
ISBN: 9780787902384 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Co-Published with Apple Press
-A blueprint for those communities who are attempting change within existing educational structures. . . . Parents, teachers and school administrators, business and community leaders, and policy makers will find this book instructive. . .well worth reading.- --American Secondary Education -Every education, business, and community leader who wants to cut through the hype about technology to see where the investment really makes a difference should start with this book.- --Alan November, CEO, Educational... Co-Published with Apple Press
-A blueprint for those communities who are attempting change within existing educational structures. .... |
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Restructuring in the Classroom: Teaching, Learning, and School Organization
ISBN: 9780787902391 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By melding policy analysis and up-close observation, the authors illuminate the really hard issues in improving instruction. This book will shape educational research and reform for many years to come.
?David Tyack, Vida Jacks Professor of Education and History, Stanford University By melding policy analysis and up-close observation, the authors illuminate the really hard issues in improving instruction. This book will shape educ...
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Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality
ISBN: 9780787903206 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to achievement. They recommend standards for reaching student intellectual quality and offer evidence of how these standards work.
This book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achieveme...
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Redesigning Schools: Lessons for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780787903213 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Should be read by all who are not satisfied with the status quo in education.-
--Teachers College Record This book patiently and persuasively asks us to rethink before we redesign' schools, to question many of our deeply ingrained beliefs about learning and schooling, and to move beyond those which no longer meet the test of common sense. It mercifully gives us no ready-to-implement school reform blueprint but rather the necessary design of how to think well about learning and teaching and schooling. ?Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools,... -Should be read by all who are not satisfied with the status quo in education.-
--Teachers College Record This book patiently and p... |
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The American School Superintendent: Leading in an Age of Pressure
ISBN: 9780787907990 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -If every school board member and every superintAndent read The American SuperintAndent we'd be a long way toward building the team structure we need to guide American schools.-
Anne L. Bryant, executive director, National School Boards Association -If every school board member and every superintAndent read The American SuperintAndent we'd be a long way toward building the team structure we need ...
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Crossing Boundaries: Collaboration, Coordination, and the Redefinition of Resources
ISBN: 9780787910693 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once again, Sarason leads the way, with a unique and provocative perspective on organizational collaboration.
In this penetrating work, Sarason and Lorenz tackle the problem of decreased in schools and health and social service agencies. They show how collaboration between organizations can work, and how this pooling of resources can add up to more than the sum of parts. The authors the role of networks for maximizing the use of resources, the special role and characteristics of a network coordinator, and the energy and sense of community that will result. Once again, Sarason leads the way, with a unique and provocative perspective on organizational collaboration.
In this penetrating work, S... |
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The Handbook of Conflict Resolution Education: A Guide to Building Quality Programs in Schools
ISBN: 9780787910969 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sponsored by the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (NIDR)
-This is an excellent comprehensive survey and guide to conflict resolution education that should be of great value to all educators.- Conflict resolution education is a critical component of comprehensive efforts to prevent violence and reduce crime in schools. This workbook provides an introduction to the basic principles of conflict resolution and its application to school... Sponsored by the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (NIDR)
-This is an excellent comprehensive survey and guide to conflict resolution ed... |
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Building a Full-Service School: A Step-By-Step Guide
ISBN: 9780787940584 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -No one who anticipates developing a full-service school should proceed without first studying this manual.-
--Joy G. Dryfoos, author of Full-Service Schools This how-to companion to Joy Dryfoos' Full-Service Schools is the first practical and comprehensive guide to establishing school-based community health and social support services-such as psychological counseling and drug prevention. Full service (or integrated services) schools have emerged in response to the growing needs of children and families and the dwindling of dollars to support them. Based on the... -No one who anticipates developing a full-service school should proceed without first studying this manual.-
--Joy G. Dryfoos, author of Full-Se... |
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Full-Service Schools: A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families
ISBN: 9780787940645 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Full-Service Schools describes the movement to create an array of integrated support services in schools. It examines the declining welfare of many American families and prescribes solutions for the problems of increased sex, drugs, violence, and stress among youth.
Full-Service Schools describes the movement to create an array of integrated support services in schools. It examines the declining welfare of many Am...
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Teaching as the Learning Profession: Handbook of Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780787943417 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -No education topic is more important than how to raise the quality of teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes the case for reshaping teacher preparation and professional development to enhance student learning.-
--Bob Chase, president, National Education Association Leading educational thinkers and researchers deliver an in-depth overview of the issues and challenges facing the teaching profession today. This book is the first in over a decade to synthesize the most important research in the fields of teaching and teacher education. This research is also the... -No education topic is more important than how to raise the quality of teaching in America's schools. This book eloquently makes the case for reshapin...
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Dangerous Schools: What We Can Do about the Physical and Emotional Abuse of Our Children
ISBN: 9780787943639 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the inner-city to the suburbs, thousands of school children are being systematically subjected to mandatory classroom policies which inflict both physical and emotional harm. Hundreds of school officials from across the country have been found guilty of sexual harassment, the illegal use of undercover agents, strip searches, corporal punishment, verbal abuse, punitive isolation, and other forms of institutional abuse. In Dangerous Schools, Professor Irwin Hyman and Pamela Snook, passionate advocates against the institutional maltreatment of children, reveal exactly what is going on in...
From the inner-city to the suburbs, thousands of school children are being systematically subjected to mandatory classroom policies which inflict both...
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Leading Academic Change: Essential Roles for Department Chairs
ISBN: 9780787946821 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -To ensure its continued validity, higher education needs to change, something it cannot do without the participation of department chairs. In this book, Ann Lucas has assembled some of the most thoughtful people in higher education to provide the 'line leaders' of higher education with the essential knowledge they need to bring those changes about.-
--Margaret A. Miller, president, American Association for Higher Education -Department chairs are typically amateurs, entering upon their position for a limited time with no formal training to prepare them for the many... -To ensure its continued validity, higher education needs to change, something it cannot do without the participation of department chairs. In this bo...
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Effective School Boards: Strategies for Improving Board Performance
ISBN: 9780787946920 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -An empathetic but hard-hitting book about effective school board leadership. It should be required reading for superintendents, school board members, and all elected leaders.-
--Anne L. Bryant, executive director, National School Boards Association -The chances for providing an even better education for students increases geometrically when school boards and superintendents work together in common purpose. This book can help build the capacity of boards to support district-level improvement with wise governance and leadership.- --Paul Houston, executive... -An empathetic but hard-hitting book about effective school board leadership. It should be required reading for superintendents, school board members,...
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Technology Everywhere: A Campus Agenda for Educating and Managing Workers in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780787950149 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information technology (IT) has transformed human resource management across our society, and its influence on higher education has been profound. Technology Everywhere addresses the dual role played by colleges and universities that must recruit, hire, and train knowledge worker professionals and educate IT learners to manage the ever-increasing flow of information both on campus and off. Each chapter in this much-needed volume addresses a critical phase of IT human resource management, identifies key issues, and offers practical advice based on actual experiences that can help...
Information technology (IT) has transformed human resource management across our society, and its influence on higher education has been profound. ...
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Successful Grants Program Management
ISBN: 9780787950392 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As school districts struggle with decentralized management, the need to coordinate grant proposal development has grown dramatically. This indispensable resource contains all the practical tools that districts need to manage cross-curricular proposals for all their schools. It describes the key elements of a successful grants system, explains the legal, ethical, and financial requirements of grantseeking programs, and offers worksheets and checklists to help organize every aspect of grants promotion and administration. Grants expert David Bauer shares sound advice and such important...
As school districts struggle with decentralized management, the need to coordinate grant proposal development has grown dramatically. This indispensab...
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Building Community in Schools
ISBN: 9780787950446 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in order to establish a sense of 'community' as the foundation for all curriculum and instruction decisions. . . . Teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and communities seeking advice and motivation for restructuring schools for the 21st century would be well advised to consult this work.-
--Choice -Provides the practitioner with both a theoretical blueprint with which to build learning communities and a rich supply of benchmark illustrations to use as prototypes. . . .... -Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in order to establish a sense of 'community' as the foundation fo...
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Leadership for the Schoolhouse: How is It Different? Why is It Important?
ISBN: 9780787955427 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A powerful template for crafting responsible and humane schools.-
--Educational Leadership -Reading this book will make educators feel they have come home to familiar land and can still build anew from there.- --Michael Huberman, professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University -Sergiovanni's alternative vision of schools as caring, intimate places built on mutual respect, civic responsibility, and shared purposes gets to the heart of excellence in education.- --Ernest L. Boyer, president, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of... -A powerful template for crafting responsible and humane schools.-
--Educational Leadership -Reading this book will make educators ... |
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