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Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational Reform
ISBN: 9780787956103 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schlechty shows both educators and parents how to envision reform and design quality educational systems. He explains how the visioning process must be rooted in real shared beliefs, how mission statements must unpack visions into concrete goals that are connected to action, and how the results of reform can be usefully assessed. Drawing on the author's vast experience in the day-to-day work of implementing school reform, Inventing Better Schools offers new approaches for setting standards and ensuring accountability--and includes samples of actual mission statements and strategic plans of...
Schlechty shows both educators and parents how to envision reform and design quality educational systems. He explains how the visioning process must b...
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96,34 |
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The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work
ISBN: 9780787959425 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of AERA Outstanding Book Award in 1998
-While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the complexity of implementing it, Darling-Hammond remains optimistic that systemic changes to ensure access to a meaningful education for all children are possible. Her book is positive and hopeful and serves as a fascinating account of American education and its promise of 'the right to learn' for all children.- -Darling-Hammond's central claim is well worth listening to. She argues that American students do so poorly by comparison... Winner of AERA Outstanding Book Award in 1998
-While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the complexity of implementing it, D... |
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103,86 |
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Conflict Resolution
ISBN: 9780787960537 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dealing with conflict is an evitable part of any academic administrator's job. Often, however, new administrators lack the skills they need to successfully resolve campus conflicts. This important resource includes an array of strategies for identifying and managing conflict between individuals, within a department, and between departments. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Conflict Resolution shows how to turn conflicts into problems to be solved. Authors Sandra I. Cheldelin and Ann F. Lucas offer concrete approaches academic administrators can use to analyze conflicts...
Dealing with conflict is an evitable part of any academic administrator's job. Often, however, new administrators lack the skills they need to success...
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128,84 |
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The Wounded Leader: How Real Leadership Emerges in Times of Crisis
ISBN: 9780787961107 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As any school principal or adminstrator can tell you, the responsibilities of school leadership can take a person from inspired moments to crisis in an instant. How does a school leader with good intentions preserve a healthy sense of self in the face of a crisis which in the best of times challenges the self, and in the worst of times can lead to deep wounds of the heart? How can good leaders minimize the impact of these crises and remain open to learn and grow from these difficult experiences? These are the questions at the heart of the stories contained in The Wounded Leader.
... As any school principal or adminstrator can tell you, the responsibilities of school leadership can take a person from inspired moments to crisis in a...
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175,23 |
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The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Meetings
ISBN: 9780787964320 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newly appointed academic managers are expected to conduct and lead a wide variety of meetings. Often, however, these managers lack the skills needed to lead meetings that get meaningful results. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Meetings is specifically designed to help managers understand how to conduct successful meetings that accomplish specific objectives as efficiently as possible. This helpful resource includes practical guidelines and information that can be put into place immediately to help ensure that meetings run effectively.
Newly appointed academic managers are expected to conduct and lead a wide variety of meetings. Often, however, these managers lack the skills needed t...
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128,84 |
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Inclusive Leadership
ISBN: 9780787965082 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inclusive Leadership draws on James Ryan's groundbreaking research to present a powerful new idea - leadership as an intentionally inclusive practice that values all cultures and types of students in a school. This important book shows that inclusion must encompass all types of difference in students, teachers, and parents - from the single mother to the new immigrant, from the parents working night jobs, to the homeless child, to issues of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. In four fascinating chapters, James Ryan sketches out the dimensions of exclusion, analyzes the...
Inclusive Leadership draws on James Ryan's groundbreaking research to present a powerful new idea - leadership as an intentionally inclusive pr...
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the school administrator's complete letter book
ISBN: 9780787965891 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The School Administrator's Complete Letter Book with CD-ROM, Second Edition, offers a comprehensive selection of model letters and memos for a wide variety of educational purposes and situations. This book and its accompanying CD contain a gold mine of tested, usable letters and other communiques, some of which can be used practically word-for-word from the book, while others can be adapted to your specific needs.
The book's letters and memos represent the contributions of more than 60 outstanding school administrators throughout the United States - including superintendents,... The School Administrator's Complete Letter Book with CD-ROM, Second Edition, offers a comprehensive selection of model letters and memos for a ...
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173,22 |
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The Principal's Book of Lists
ISBN: 9780787966614 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This valuable resource is packed with 433 checklists, guidelines, sample rules, calendars, criteria, procedures, timelines, strategies and tips to help principals and assistant principals in elementary and secondary schools quickly and effectively handle every aspect of their job.
This valuable resource is packed with 433 checklists, guidelines, sample rules, calendars, criteria, procedures, timelines, strategies and tips to hel...
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169,55 |
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From High School to College: Improving Opportunities for Success in Postsecondary Education
ISBN: 9780787970628 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In From High School to College educational policy experts Michael W. Kirst, Andrea Venezia, and their contributors reveal why so many students are entering college unprepared for college level work and often unable to complete a degree. This important book presents the findings of the Bridge Project3/4a major national research study conducted by Stanford University and funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the U.S. Department of Education. The researchers examined the fit between what high schools were doing to prepare students for college admissions and course work, and what...
In From High School to College educational policy experts Michael W. Kirst, Andrea Venezia, and their contributors reveal why so many students ...
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206,17 |
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Higher Education for the Public Good: Emerging Voices from a National Movement
ISBN: 9780787973827 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book explores the various ways that higher education contributes to the realization of significant public ends and examines how leaders can promote and enhance their contribution to the social charter through new policies and best practices. It also shows how other sectors of society, government agencies, foundations, and individuals can partner with institutions of higher education to promote the public good. Higher Education for the Public Good includes contributions from leaders in the field--many of whom participated in dialogues hosted by the National Forum on...
This important book explores the various ways that higher education contributes to the realization of significant public ends and examines how leaders...
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180,39 |
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The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life
ISBN: 9780787975012 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important new book, Stephanie Pace Marshall argues that by focusing on reforming the contents of schooling and not transforming the context and conditions of learning, we have created false proxies for learning and eroded the potentially vibrant intellectual life of our schools. Finishing a course and a textbook has come to mean achievement. Listening to a lecture has come to mean understanding. Getting a high score on a standardized test has come to mean proficiency. Credentialing has come to mean competence. To educate our children wisely requires that we create generative learning...
In this important new book, Stephanie Pace Marshall argues that by focusing on reforming the contents of schooling and not transforming the context an...
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149,46 |
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Creating Great Schools: Six Critical Systems at the Heart of Educational Innovation
ISBN: 9780787976903 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Creating Great Schools, Phillip C. Schlechty--one of the nation's best-known experts on leadership and change in schools--offers a hands-on primer that will help arm school leaders with the tools they need to buck the system from within. Creating Great Schools shows educational leaders how they can sustain continuous innovation and improvement in order to create truly great schools. Schlechty outlines the six critical systems that define the norms and expressions of the school's organizational culture3/4recruitment and induction, knowledge transmission, power and authority,...
In Creating Great Schools, Phillip C. Schlechty--one of the nation's best-known experts on leadership and change in schools--offers a hands-on...
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133,99 |
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Discussion as a Way of Teaching
ISBN: 9780787978082 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and ways to elicit diverse views and voices. The book also includes new exercises and material on the intersections between discussion and the encouragement of democracy in the classroom. This revised edition expands on the original and contains information on adapting discussion methods in...
Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess ...
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164,98 |
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Handbook of School Violence
ISBN: 9780789016232 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your school must be prepared to face problems that range from name calling and bullying to extortion, rape, and homicide. Decrease the chances of tragedy and learn how to respond most effectively This essential handbook explores the causes of school violence, presents state-of-the-art information on preventing school violence, and arms you with practical interventions to use when violent incidents occur. You'll also learn about the best Internet sites on school violence issues. This book-prepared by the editor of the Journal of School Violence-can help you decrease the chances of tragedy. It...
Your school must be prepared to face problems that range from name calling and bullying to extortion, rape, and homicide. Decrease the chances of trag...
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Handbook of School Violence
ISBN: 9780789016249 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essential handbook explores the causes of school violence, presents state-of-the-art information on preventing school violence, and arms you with practical interventions to use when violent incidents occur.
This essential handbook explores the causes of school violence, presents state-of-the-art information on preventing school violence, and arms you with...
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112,60 |
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Technology in Education: A Twenty-Year Retrospective
ISBN: 9780789021991 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examine the history of the microcomputer and its impact on education
Under the editorship of D. LaMont Johnson, PhD, a nationally recognized leader in the field of educational computing, Computers in the Schools has been a powerful tool in educational settings. Now, after 20 years, Professor Johnson muses on how far information technology has come. Technology in Education: A Twenty-Year Perspective brings you a retrospective look at the trends and issues relating to the integration of computers into the school curriculum covering 25 years. He joins several other colleagues to... Examine the history of the microcomputer and its impact on education
Under the editorship of D. LaMont Johnson, PhD, a nationally recognized lea... |
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Technology in Education : A Twenty-Year Retrospective
ISBN: 9780789022004 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides an important overview by some of the leading experts in the field. From the earliest predictions and opinions to the latest trends and findings, this book celebrating the journal's 20th anniversay, is a vital research tool for students and professors of information technology in education.
Provides an important overview by some of the leading experts in the field. From the earliest predictions and opinions to the latest trends and findin...
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230,14 |
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Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention
ISBN: 9780789022196 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive examination of theory, research, prevention and intervention, and professional practice issues - in one source.
Teasing, shunning, and bullying can have serious detrimental effects on both victim and perpetrator. Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention comprehensively gathers emerging research, theory, and effective practice on this subject into one invaluable source. This thorough review of a wide spectrum of innovative, evidence-based practices targets the complex problems of victimization, peer harassment, and... A comprehensive examination of theory, research, prevention and intervention, and professional practice issues - in one source.
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288,92 |
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Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience
ISBN: 9780789025852 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools
Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience examines overt and covert violence occurring in the school setting involving students, school personnel, and school policy, and highlights a level of violence that is often hidden, ignored, or subtly tolerated. This book provides the latest research findings on various issues of violence in our schools. It also shows what happens when the adults responsible for the well-being of our children are actually perpetrating violence, staying... Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools
Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Exper... |
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195,86 |
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Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience
ISBN: 9780789025869 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools
Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience examines overt and covert violence occurring in the school setting involving students, school personnel, and school policy, and highlights a level of violence that is often hidden, ignored, or subtly tolerated. This book provides the latest research findings on various issues of violence in our schools. It also shows what happens when the adults responsible for the well-being of our children are actually perpetrating violence, staying... Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools
Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Exper... |
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112,60 |