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Following on the heels of the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents, Kathleen Cushman now turns her attention to the crucial and challenging middle grades, joining forces with adolescent psychologist Laura Rogers. As teachers, counselors, and parents cope with the roller coaster of early adolescence, too few stop to ask students what they think about these critical years. Here,...
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"What if learning was exciting? What if students felt important and empowered every time they walked into the building? What if parents looked forward to calls from their children's teachers and principals, instead of cringing when the school's number popped up on their phones? To Todd Nesloney and Adam Welcome, those aren't far-fetched what ifs; they can (and should) be a reality for every teacher, school, parent, and student. In Kids Deserve It!,...
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Dans cette deuxième édition de L'administration de l'éducation, les auteurs décrivent ce qui, depuis le début du XXe siècle, a jalonné le développement du champ d'études qu'est l'administration de l'éducation au Québec, au Canada, aux États-Unis et même en Europe. Pour ce faire, ils ont dépouillé nombre de documents, livres, revues et bulletins, communications scientifiques, archives, mémoires et thèses, annuaires d'universités,...
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Hal Roberts is a retired superintendent after serving for 38 years in education, with 30 of those in leadership. Hal taught students in grades 4-12, coached boys and girls 7-12, served as athletic director, elementary principal, high school principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent. He has spent the last six years researching both leadership and neuroscience and how those relate to each other. He has interviewed the best and brightest...
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Amid the growing teacher shortage crisis and the extra demands placed on teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic, if there's anything we've learned as educational leaders, it's that some things are out of our control. But we do have agency in ensuring that our teachers are well supported and that we're meeting their needs, and when teachers are nurtured, they are better able to nurture their students. As Allyson Apsey illustrates in her groundbreaking...
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Teacher quality is the school-related factor that most affects student learning, so selecting the best candidate for open teaching positions has enormous implications. In Effective Teacher Interviews, Jennifer L. Hindman provides practical advice on how to conduct hiring interviews that reliably predict a teacher's success, including guidance on applying research to the interview process; developing meaningful, legal interview questions; assembling...
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This book examines the elements of a school's financial framework that Board members and management staff need to know and understand in connection with planning and managing school finances. It offers the concept of a long-range plan and some of its detail. Such a plan is critical to a school's strategic direction and planning. Capital Budgets should be referred to in this plan and be congruent with it, as should school debt planning. The issues...
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Este libro propone desde los enfoques de la investigación de políticas públicas y gobernanza local la incorporación estratégica del supervisor escolar como nodo institucional de redes políticas de políticas educativas, lo que resulta en una nueva forma de gobierno en un espacio local, desde el cual se pueden alcanzar acuerdos colectivos para el logro
de un beneficio en común en la educación.
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Take it and use it as your own!
This book is a compilation of my experiences as a school leader. Enjoy the stories, tips, and strategies to handle all that comes your way in your position of leadership. Survive and Thrive and do the best you can for your students and staff!
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Support and Retain Educators of Color sets school leaders on the path to creating a culturally diverse environment where all students and teachers can thrive.
Multiple studies have explored the benefits of teacher diversity and strategies to recruit educators of color, but few focus on how to retain them. As professional demands on teachers intensify, many are leaving the classroom-and educators of color, already underrepresented in the field, are...
11) Arrows: A Systems-Based Approach to School Leadership: A Systems-Based Approach to School Leadership
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Transformational leadership begins with willing individuals. Individuals who are ready to set aside their personal comfort for the needs and unity of the collective team. In education, now more than ever, we need individuals who are willing to lead in a time of transformation. But from where are we leaving and to where are we headed? Which direction should we take, as leaders of learning, in our classrooms, schools, and communities? How do we avoid...
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Ce guide sur le leadership est destiné à la formation et au développement professionnel des directions d'établissement d'enseignement. Il s'appuie sur un modèle d'apprentissage visant l'actualisation du leadership selon trois fondements: la conscience de soi, l'analyse de son établissement et l'action. De façon vulgarisée, le présent ouvrage présente donc des savoirs à mobiliser dans le cadre d'une démarche misant ultimement sur la capacité...
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like being Principal of a school? Perhaps you are in a position of Principalship right now and find yourself asking new questions about your role with each passing day? Possibly, you hold another title within the school where you work, and find your curiosity about the job of being a Principal growing. You may work closely with him/her or from a distance. In any case, individuals who belong to a school community...
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This hands-on school leadership guide for new and veteran principals and administrators offers practical advice for leading a school successfully. Want honest student input? Try texting. Got a group of angry parents? Arrange one-on-one meetings-you'll avoid a mob scene and give each family the attention it deserves. Trying to make a teacher feel appreciated? Shoot a quick email after stopping by his classroom and describe something cool you saw him...
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The most important factor affecting student learning isn't standards, textbooks, or testing--it's teachers. And when it comes to improving learning, research has shown teachers what works. But the real challenge comes when it's time to do what works and do it well. In this book, Jane E. Pollock explains how making the right adjustments in four critical areas of practice-curriculum, instruction, assessment, and feedback-can help any teacher improve...
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This book is intended to provide guidance to parents, guardians, educators, and community recreation professionals regarding the importance of increased physical activity beyond the school day for children with disabilities.
The book starts off by discussing early childhood development specific to children with disabilities and places emphasis on parents' roles as their advocate in school and community sports, recreational, and leisure programs.
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“Key Knowledge for Success” provides effective and efficient solutions for district leaders and their careers.
Superintendents must manage a district's day-to-day activities while moving the community into the future. They juggle administrative tasks, balance budgets, liaise with influencers, and keep the schools focused on academic excellence. Key Knowledge for Success is packed with the advice, tips and tools these leaders need right now.
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Self Determination Theory
• Autonomy
• Competence
• Relatedness
"A Principal's Tale: A Self Determined Leader by Shelley McIntosh, Ed.D., is an engaging book that will help readers comprehend urban school administration and self-determination theory of urban school principals...
A Principal's Tale is informative and educational and will help future and current urban school principals and administrators, and all those who are keen...
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A principal's job is astonishingly complex, and its competing demands can be overwhelming, especially in the first few years. In this book, Jen Schwanke, a principal herself, provides a mentor's guidance to steer new principals through the period of adjustment and set the foundation for a long and rewarding career. The topics you wish your graduate program had covered are covered here-directly, practically, and without the jargon. Drawing on her own...
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