Learn from the lived wisdom of 19 successful long-term superintendents as they reveal the mindsets, strategies, and leadership practices that drive sustained district success.

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The chapters in this text are designed to provide administrators and leaders with background and strategy to help assist them in designing their own play calls when dealing with employees, unions, and labor leadership.

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Explores how researchers can engage effectively in networks and carry out research on networks and networking. This book considers of how educational research as a field is developing, identifies new research skills, approaches and practices, and presents an emerging new role: the 'researcher-as-networker'.

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Explores how researchers can engage effectively in networks and carry out research on networks and networking.

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Teachers are brain changers. Thus it would seem obvious that an understanding of the brain - the organ of learning - would be critical to a teacher's readiness to work with students. Unfortunately, in traditional public, public-charter, private, parochial, and home schools acr...

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What supports the application of instructional leadership What hinders it When is it incompletely applied Although some researchers have explored such questions, the available knowledge on the application of instructional leadership is meager. New Explorations for Instructi...

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The last 60 years have seen tremendous strides in American high school education. However, the drop out rate is still too high. This book offers one strategy that is suitable for real change: the cultural reform strategy - a fundamental change in the beliefs, attitudes, and expectations of the stakeholders.

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International case studies of leadership in practice provide an overview of the 'lived experience' of new primary school Principals in different contexts. This book brings together the range of those experiences and challenges. It includes interviews with primary school leaders in the early years of leadership in 13 different countries.

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International case studies of leadership in practice provide an overview of the 'lived experience' of new primary school Principals in different contexts. This book brings together the range of those experiences and challenges. It includes interviews with primary school leaders in the early years of leadership in 13 different countries.

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This book provides a resource for educators to develop students news literacy skills.

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This book provides a resource for educators to develop students news literacy skills.

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Highlights the scholarship of eight doctoral students in curriculum and their professor, who took on the legal, political, philosophical, social, cultural, economic, and curricular assumptions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This book offers an examination of the impact of the NCLB on the lives of children, families, and teachers.

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The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan designed to ensure these standards are met.

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The information in this book will provide board members with simple tools to become an effective member of the board.

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The information in this book will provide board members with simple tools to become an effective member of the board.

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In On Fire, Under Fire, or Fired: Superintendents in the Pandemic current and former superintendents reflect on the challenges and successes faced during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and share recommendations on how we can continue to learn from this historic moment and advance our public education system to serve all students.

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This book provides needed information for those involved in creating or administering an independent school by laying out the issues that must be addressed, but may not be considered.

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This book is intended to be a discussion point for how to develop a healthy relationship between personal experience and academic learningwhich in light of our current results driven, testing culture, is the real benefit of the book.

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Supported by the Nebraska Council of School Administrators and the U.S. Department of Education, the authors investigated the successful strategies and attitudes of hundreds of individuals nominated as outstanding administrators by state departments of education, professional associations, university professors, and peers.

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In today's economy, where getting a good education has never been more important and school resources are stretched beyond points that most of us can remember, it is imperative that parents be fully engaged in their child's education, both at home and at school. Parents play ...

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Mindful Parenting helps parents raise children who will be calmer, more enlightened, and happier.

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Parents wanted their children to progress academically, socially, and emotionally at school. Although they asked educators for help with problems, they did not always agree about the causes or the solutions. This book is about the turmoil that parents created. It is intended f...

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Parents and Schools Together shows that its not just the schools job to raise kids and its not just the parents job to raise kids. It takes both working together to raise successful students and kids.