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There are many master teachers who have excellent organizational and interpersonal relation skills who think about becoming assistant principals and principals. Becoming a School Leader is designed primarily for these master teachers as they contemplate the next step in their professional careers.

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An examination of the processes and procedures involved in developing a career in teaching and becoming a secondary headteacher in England. In a study of two local education authorities, the author compares how career structures match up to actual experiences of promotion.

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This book provides practical strategies for meeting the challenges of children exhibiting behavior problems.

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Behind the Curtain: Tackling the Myths and Mistakes of School Management is a down-to-earth, practical guide for educators to assist them with the pitfalls that can be associated with upper management. This book explores complex issues of power, control and motivation to expos...

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Behind the Curtain: Tackling the Myths and Mistakes of School Management is a down-to-earth, practical guide for educators to assist them with the pitfalls that can be associated with upper management. This book explores complex issues of power, control and motivation to expos...

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School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. Besieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards.

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Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses: Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders is intended for ambitious future principals who recognize the importance of researching and preparing for that esteemed position. It contains ten steps that will lead ...

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Beyond Buzzwords examines popular but ineffective instructional concepts and explains why many popular educational ideas lack evidence and theoretical support for improving instruction. This book also critically examines instructional goals and the meaning of evidence-based instruction.

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Beyond Buzzwords examines popular but ineffective instructional concepts and explains why many popular educational ideas lack evidence and theoretical support for improving instruction. This book also critically examines instructional goals and the meaning of evidence-based instruction.

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This text questions the dead-end assumptions of American education. It asserts a set of five "research realities" that the author argues ahould be the foundation of any truly learner-centred system: human potential, human learning, domains of the living, future conditions, and life performance.

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The failure of alternative and continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly eliminating them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking options, are being set adrift without the necessary capabilities and with...

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The failure of alternative and continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly eliminating them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking options, are being set adrift without the necessary capabilities and with...

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The author outlines an entirely different conception of what the university must become if it is to be a force for good in the world.

The author contends that the modern university actively participates in the breakdown of human communities and the destruction of the natural world.

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Focuses on the purposes of bilingual education programs in schools and their historical development from the 1960s to the present.

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This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America.

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Edwards and Willie demonstrate the efficacy of local community action, but also show how linkage with state, regional, and national agencies helps groups in their efforts to shape educational policy and practice.

Edwards and Willie examine the notion of critical mass and its relationship to community decision making.

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The author, who has spearheaded the adoption of block scheduling in her school's library media center, has prepared a complete guide for library media specialists contemplating or moving to block scheduling. She has incorporated the experiences of thirteen secondary school libraries across the country.

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The challenge of governing a complex organization is difficult enough in itself, without layering on top of that challenge the struggle to make the board's own operating system seem natural and meaningful. Making Your Governance Model Work is a practical guide that takes the mystery out of that process.

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Dr. Carpenter provides parents, teachers and students with useful information for the prevention of school shootings

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Does every one inside the box think the same No differentiation No evolving levels Then too where do those who think outside of the box, go Back to the original box to go through further iterations Not likely; after all they have outgrown their box. Like Adam they have ta...

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Does every one inside the box think the same No differentiation No evolving levels Then too where do those who think outside of the box, go Back to the original box to go through further iterations Not likely; after all they have outgrown their box. Like Adam they have ta...

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Brain Science for Principals: What School Leaders Need to Know features leadership of learning from the perspective of recent findings of educational neuroscience. Each chapter explores a question related to learning and offers practical suggestions for principals. Divided int...