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Direct linkShoho, Alan R., Ed.; Barnett, Bruce, Ed.; Tooms, Autumn K., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
This edited book highlights the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship. As noted in all the chapters, the assistant principal is a critical partner in creating a professional learning community that serves all students well. Often neglected or ignored in the literature, assistant principals are more than disciplinarians and…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrator Responsibility
Boudett, Kathryn Parker, Ed.; City, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Murnane, Richard J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning" presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' abilities to capture…
Descriptors: Guides, Information Utilization, Student Evaluation, Educational Improvement
Boudett, Kathryn Parker, Ed.; City, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Murnane, Richard J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning" presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' abilities to capture…
Descriptors: Guides, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Utilization
Shen, Jianping, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those dimensions associated with student achievement. Given the accountability movement, with its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Principals, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
Download full textAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA), 2013
The epicenter for bullying is schools, colleges, and universities, where vast numbers of children, youth, and young adults spend much of their time. Bullying--a form of harassment and violence--needs to be understood from a developmental, social, and educational perspective. The educational settings in which it occurs, and where prevention and…
Descriptors: Prevention, Bullying, Aggression, Violence
Mundy, Peter, Ed.; Mastergeorge, Ann, Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
Educational Interventions for Students with Autism offers educators a vital resource for understanding and working with autistic students. Written by nationally acclaimed experts in the field and published in collaboration with the world-renowned UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, the book aims to deepen educators' appreciation of the challenges…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Inclusion
Howe, Alan, Ed.; Richards, Val, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The transition from primary to secondary school can often be a difficult time for children, and managing the transition smoothly has posed a problem for teachers at both upper primary and lower secondary level. At a time when "childhood" recedes and "adulthood" beckons, the inequalities between individual children can widen,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Physical Development, Teaching Methods, Transitional Programs
Education Funders Research Initiative, 2013
Education Funders Research Initiative (EdFunders), a project of Philanthropy New York, is supported by a group of diverse funding organizations that have pursued an array of education reform strategies. EdFunders have come together to engage New Yorkers and focus leaders on new research into how to best prepare students for college and…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Financial Support, Educational Change, College Preparation
Earley, Penelope M., Ed.; Imig, David G., Ed.; Michelli, Nicholas M., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
What constitutes a high quality teacher education program and what standards teacher candidates should meet before receiving their teaching credential? This volume advances deep understanding of the nature and sources of policy affecting the preparation of teachers in the U.S. and the conflicts or interconnections of these policies with the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Social Justice, World Views, Teacher Education Programs
Krakowsky, Lorenzo – Bank Street College of Education, 2010
This paper tells the remarkable and compelling story of Leonard Covello, a ground breaking progressive educator who worked tirelessly to shape public education in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. Covello was the founding principal of Benjamin Franklin High School (BFHS) in East Harlem in the 1930s. The author invites…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Biographies, Principals, Urban Schools
Shields, Carolyn M., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
This important, timely, and thought-provoking reader is a collection of original chapters by authors from five different countries, each of whom explores a facet of transformative leadership. Transformative leadership is fundamentally a critical approach to leadership that goes well beyond the tenets of most current leadership theories to focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Critical Theory, Democracy
Silva, Anderson, Ed.; Pontes, Elvis, Ed.; Guelfi, Adilson, Ed.; Kofuji, Sergio Takeo, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Chapters in this book include: (1) Courseware Adaptation to Learning Styles and Knowledge Level (Boyan Bontchev and Dessislava Vassileva); (2) Assisted On-Job Training (Claudio Teixeira and Joaquim Sousa Pinto); (3) Self-Directed Learning Readiness Factors in Physicians for Implementing E-Learning in the Continuing Medical Education Programs…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Computer Assisted Instruction, Job Training, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedBasile, Carole G., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2009
A Professional Development School (PDS) offers unique university-school relationships that can change the culture of learning and add value to students and the community. Initially created in the 1980s, the PDS movement is growing across the country and is now a respected teacher education model. In this book, Carole G. Basile has collected…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, Knowledge Management, Human Capital
Auerbach, Susan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
School leaders are increasingly called upon to pursue meaningful partnerships with families and community groups, yet many leaders are unprepared to meet the challenges of partnerships, to cross cultural boundaries, or to be accountable to the community. Alliances are needed among educators, families, and community groups that value relationship…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Parent Participation, Educational Change, Parent School Relationship
Elsner, Paul A., Ed.; Boggs, George R., Ed. – American Association of Community Colleges, 2006
The contributors relate examples of situations in which leaders encountered unexpected and sometimes unprecedented incivility in their role as community college leaders. The chapters present their experiences, observations, lessons, and recommendations for handling crises that may befall leaders in an academic setting. This book contains the…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, Ethics, Community Colleges, Interpersonal Relationship
