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The Case for District-Based Reform: Leading, Building, and Sustaining School Improvement
ISBN: 9781891792281 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1999, the Duval County (Fla.) school system set out to improve every school in the district. Over the next five years, the district achieved stunning results that have drawn nationwide attention. Jonathan A. Supovitz uses the unfolding story of Duval County to develop a sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of the role of the school district in enacting large-scale reform.
In 1999, under the superintendancy of retired Air Force major general John Fryer, the Duval County (Fla.) school system set out to improve every school in the district. Over the next five years, the district... In 1999, the Duval County (Fla.) school system set out to improve every school in the district. Over the next five years, the district achieved stunni...
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Leading Curriculum Improvement: Fundamentals for School Principals
ISBN: 9781610484084 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers clear guidance for facilitating curriculum improvement at the building level. It includes real-life scenarios that principals encounter, accompanied by strategies to help schools sustain focus on student learning and continuous organizational development. It is aimed at current and prospective administrators looking to update or refresh their understandings of curriculum leadership fundamentals. Its actionable ideas and useful examples can be applied across multiple school subjects and grade levels. Its practical overviews center on seven questions essential to planning,...
This book offers clear guidance for facilitating curriculum improvement at the building level. It includes real-life scenarios that principals encount...
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Faculty Success Through Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors, Mentees, and Leaders
ISBN: 9780742563209 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few things are more essential to the success of an academic institution than vital faculty members. This book is a rich combination of findings from the literature and practical tools, which together assist academic leaders and faculty in implementing and participating in a successful formal mentoring program that can be used as a strategy for maintaining the vitality of a diverse faculty across all stages of an academic career. In Faculty Success through Mentoring, the authors describe the tangible benefits of formal, traditional mentoring programs, in which mentor-mentee interactions are...
Few things are more essential to the success of an academic institution than vital faculty members. This book is a rich combination of findings from t...
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Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths
ISBN: 9780739166444 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection about women's leadership development in academic, organizational, and political contexts. Women's leadership development exists at the intersection of consciousness-raising, communication competence, and education to increase one's knowledge and practice of "leadership," which makes the weaving...
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M....
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Black School White School: Racism and Educational (Mis) Leadership
ISBN: 9780807753125 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do race and race relations influence leadership practice and the education of students? In this timely and provocative book, the author identifies cultural and unstated norms and beliefs around race and race relations, and explores how these dynamics influence the kind of education students receive.
How do race and race relations influence leadership practice and the education of students? In this timely and provocative book, the author identifies...
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Cultural Change in Organizations: A Guide to Leadership and Bottom-Line Results
ISBN: 9780977690039 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Change in Organizations provides answers for those wanting to help their culture move. This how-to book for creating what the Gallup poll calls an "engagement culture" illustrates how to lead an organization toward increased business results and improved morale. This book showcases, in story form, how to create a culture which forges a powerful synthesis between management authority and employee participation which leads to striking results in safety, quality, and productivity. It is written from Robert Crosby's extensive experience "in the trenches": within organizations where he...
Cultural Change in Organizations provides answers for those wanting to help their culture move. This how-to book for creating what the Gallup poll cal...
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Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders
ISBN: 9780062128317 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a follow up to his phenomenal New York Times bestselling memoir, Highest Duty, Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger explores exactly what it takes to lead and inspire. In Making a Difference, one of the most captivating American heroes of this century--the courageous pilot who brought the crippled US Airways Flight 1549 safely down in New York's Hudson River--engages some of the most accomplished men and women in the fields of technology, medicine, education, sports, philanthropy, finance, law, and the military in inspiring conversations on true leadership....
As a follow up to his phenomenal New York Times bestselling memoir, Highest Duty, Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger explores e...
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Safe and Peaceful Schools: Addressing Conflict and Eliminating Violence
ISBN: 9781412986755 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides practical strategies for teaching conflict resolution skills that help prevent bullying and violence for a safe and peaceful school environment. Modes of practice include peer mediation, narrative counseling, circle conversations, undercover anti-bullying team, "facing up to violence" groups, and restorative conferences.
This book provides practical strategies for teaching conflict resolution skills that help prevent bullying and violence for a safe and peaceful school...
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The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck: 101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers
ISBN: 9781451639742 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author and educator Ron Clark challenges parents, teachers, and communities everywhere embrace a difference in the classroom and uplift, educate, and empower our children. Read this book to find out why so many across the country have embraced these powerful rules. - Set the electric tone on day one
- Teach your children how to study--don't expect it to come naturally - Don't constantly stress about test scores - Not every child deserves a cookie - Lift up your teachers. No, really, lift them up - If kids like you all the time,... New York Times bestselling author and educator Ron Clark challenges parents, teachers, and communities everywhere embrace a difference in the c...
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A Teacher′s Guide for Getting Serious about the System
ISBN: 9781452205120 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this companion book to Getting Serious About the System, teachers will learn about the critical role they play in a five-phase process for implementing system-wide change.
In this companion book to Getting Serious About the System, teachers will learn about the critical role they play in a five-phase process for implemen...
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Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students
ISBN: 9781452205908 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides professional development ideas and strategies that will help educational leaders foster a more caring school culture not only for LGBT students, but for all students.
This book provides professional development ideas and strategies that will help educational leaders foster a more caring school culture not only for L...
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Overcoming the Challenges of Life
ISBN: 9781467041263 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In life, there is a summons that is often threatening, provocative, and stimulating; a hard nut to crack that tries to dash our hope and defeat our expectation at fulfilling our purposes for living. Great people like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, George Washington, Maya Angelou, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, David Livingstone, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, John Glenn, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Neil Armstrong, Bill Gates, Anyaele Sam Chiyson and even President Barack Obama overcame the challenges of life to crown themselves with success. You too can be...
In life, there is a summons that is often threatening, provocative, and stimulating; a hard nut to crack that tries to dash our hope and defeat our ex...
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Overcoming the Challenges of Life
ISBN: 9781467041270 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In life, there is a summons that is often threatening, provocative, and stimulating; a hard nut to crack that tries to dash our hope and defeat our expectation at fulfilling our purposes for living. Great people like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, George Washington, Maya Angelou, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, David Livingstone, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, John Glenn, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Neil Armstrong, Bill Gates, Anyaele Sam Chiyson and even President Barack Obama overcame the challenges of life to crown themselves with success. You too can be...
In life, there is a summons that is often threatening, provocative, and stimulating; a hard nut to crack that tries to dash our hope and defeat our ex...
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Leadership from the Ground Up: Effective Schooling in Traditionally Low Performing Schools
ISBN: 9781617356506 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were able to sustain school improvement for a decade on either state and/or national criteria that measure student performance outcomes. The book shares stories of these seven schools and demonstrates that it takes an entire school working together with their communities, adding to the social and cultural capital of their students and families, to create and nurture what we call a Learning Partnership for sustainable school improvement. The answers for...
This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were abl...
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Leadership from the Ground Up: Effective Schooling in Traditionally Low Performing Schools (Hc)
ISBN: 9781617356513 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were able to sustain school improvement for a decade on either state and/or national criteria that measure student performance outcomes. The book shares stories of these seven schools and demonstrates that it takes an entire school working together with their communities, adding to the social and cultural capital of their students and families, to create and nurture what we call a Learning Partnership for sustainable school improvement. The answers for...
This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were abl...
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Leadership and Management of Quality in Higher Education
ISBN: 9781843345763 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a range of case studies concerning the leadership and management of quality development in higher education. It captures the experiences of senior administrators and managers to the complexity of problems that quality development involves. The authors draw attention to the human-centred approach to quality, as they argue that in any activity there is a need to take account of human values and attitudes.
This book provides a range of case studies concerning the leadership and management of quality development in higher education. It captures the experi...
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Action Research in Catholic Schools: A Step-By-Step Guide for Practitioners (Second Edition)
ISBN: 9781935788072 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors offer the textbook for conducting and preparing an action research study and report in the Catholic school context.
The authors offer the textbook for conducting and preparing an action research study and report in the Catholic school context.
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Beyond Testing: Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests
ISBN: 9780807758526 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results. These assessments are more honest about what we can and cannot know about children's knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Readers can compare and contrast each approach to determine which is most appropriate for their school.
Describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results. These assessments are more honest about what we can and ca...
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Leadership from the Darkside: There's Nothing More Instructive than a Bad Example
ISBN: 9781942936503 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you train people to become better leaders? Almost 200,000 books exist on the topic, and American companies spend almost $14 billion annually on the pursuit of leadership training, but so far no one has come up with the definitive answer. The U.S. military spends more on leadership training than most organizations, and it should: its officers run a business with millions of employees in hundreds of countries across the planet, and at any moment its leaders might have to order their subordinates to make the ultimate sacrifice. How do you train people to become better leaders? Almost 200,000 books exist on the topic, and American companies spend almost $14 billion annually... |
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Schools That Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement
ISBN: 9781682530283 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth's most inspiring and compelling book yet--an essential read for educators who seek to break the stubborn connection between academic achievement and socioeconomic status.
Chenoweth draws on her decade-long journey into neighborhood schools where low-income students and students of color are learning at unexpectedly high levels to reveal a key ingredient to their success: in one way or another, their leaders have confronted the traditional ways that schools are organized and... Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth's most inspiring and compelling book yet--an...
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