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With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school and district levels.

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Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one.

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This book provides information on how to use focus-group research to gain insight and allow input from various individuals or groups that may often be silenced during any decision-making process. A history of focus-group research is presented, along with various social and pol...

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This guide will serve as a starting point to help expand administrators instructional and learning leadership. While providing information about the intricacies of the teaching and learning process, this text is designed to provide administrators the freedom to modify, add to, and personalize the guide as they challenge themselves to grow.

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In this book, Robert Hess promotes teacher leadership as the critical component to achieving breakthrough results in school improvement.

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The book takes a very broad perspective on race and education, situated in the larger context of the development of individual rights in Western civiliztion.

The book traces the long legal history of first racial segregation, and then racial desegregation in America.

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Forgotten Conscripts looks deeper into the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences of military-connected adolescents to better inform teaching and learning among members of this culture so they might no longer be forgotten.

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Forgotten Conscripts looks deeper into the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences of military-connected adolescents to better inform teaching and learning among members of this culture so they might no longer be forgotten.

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FORWARD FAST examines the extraordinary changes that have taken place inside the classroom as a result of an explosion of personal and instructional technology. It also explores ways for educators and parents to create inspirational and meaningful learning opportunities for their children in this exciting new world.

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This book reveals that, far from being the result of a groundswell of support for parental choice in American education, the origins of school vouchers are seated in identity politics, religious schooling, and educational entrepreneurship.

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The book is a how-to guide identifying leadership characteristics and practical strategies that demonstrate how leaders can constructively channel a schools inevitable conflicts and instill a school culture that promotes group problem solving while honoring diverse voices.

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The book is a how-to guide identifying leadership characteristics and practical strategies that demonstrate how leaders can constructively channel a schools inevitable conflicts and instill a school culture that promotes group problem solving while honoring diverse voices.

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From Family Collapse to America's Decline looks at the effect of family fragmentation on education, and in turn the American economy.

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This book describes the leadership practices of football coaches as a way to illustrate the theory the author expounds, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory.

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Positive school culture is at the heart of effective teaching and learning. As such, improving a schools culture is a critical component to school transformation. This resource provides school leaders with a concrete professional development plan for staff and students designed to eliminate power struggles in order to improve school culture.

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Positive school culture is at the heart of effective teaching and learning. As such, improving a schools culture is a critical component to school transformation. This resource provides school leaders with a concrete professional development plan for staff and students designed to eliminate power struggles in order to improve school culture.

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From Risk to Resiliency offers continuation school developers and classroom teachers a wide range of in-depth choices in which to create resilient, school-wide change. It offers educational leaders research-based evidence in which to overcome common, closely-held beliefs as to...

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AASA: The American Association of School Administrators Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement. Use this practical guide to implement systems thinking in your school system today! The first section of this book...

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From Teamwork to Excellence: Labor and Economic Factors Affecting Educators demonstrates how time and talent can be used effectively in the various roles found in PK-12, with one chapter addressing time management in higher education. This text could be utilized in Schools of ...

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In this book, an experienced school administrator provides practical, research-based, guidance for how to succeed during this critical first year as a new school administrator. It also includes research and practical application strategies for addressing the most important tas...

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From the Principal's X-Files examines day-to-day, real-world situations and events that are often humorous and, at times, poignant as a point of reference for implementing best practices to create and maintain effective and nurturing school cultures. The ultimate goal of this ...