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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 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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Setting the Atmosphere: Beliefs, Practices, and Protocols for Faith-Filled Educational Leaders by Dr. Deborah L. Wortham was written for educational leaders-teachers, principals, and Superintendents, who face the daily challenge of creating, implementing, and sustaining systems of belief, practices, and protocols. It is a leader's experiential guide for creating, supporting, and sustaining systems that cultivate an atmosphere for successful leadership...
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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...
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Every Teacher's Guide to Writing across the CurriculumThis book is an essential resource for all educators. To address declining literacy skills, every educator needs to become a teacher of writing. In every grade and subject, the writing process enables students to interpret complex ideas, cultivate their individual voices, and shape and share their learning.As writing becomes more efficient with the aid of AI chatbots, there's an unparalleled opportunity...
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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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El objeto de estudio de esta obra es la Gestión Directiva de las Organizaciones Educativas en el marco de los Proyectos Educativos Institucionales - PEI, referenciada como categoría axial, complementada con las categorías PEI y la Resignificación. Desde su dimensión ontológica esta investigación surgió ante las tensiones o rupturas que se presentan entre las prácticas que realizan los rectores desde la gestión directiva, frente a lo que...
9) 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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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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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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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
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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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Baruti K. Kafele, a champion for assistant principals, offers stories from his own leadership practice and thought-provoking advice for being effective in the role.
The job of a school leader is more challenging-and important-than ever. To be effective, administrators need to support their students and staff, but they also need to take care of themselves. Bestselling author Baruti K. Kafele brings this motivational message to the pivotal members...
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School leadership is messy, but coaching conversations offer an opportunity to step back from the demands of everyday work and focus on developing leadership capabilities.
Although every coaching conversation is personalized and every context is unique, many school leaders face similar issues. In Embracing MESSY Leadership, Alyssa Gallagher and Rosie Connor-directors of global educational leadership nonprofit BTS Spark-synthesize the experience gained...
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