R L Education: 708 books
A Ten-Minute Approach to Educational Leadership
A Handbook of Insights for All Level Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Educational leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for ways to improve the functioning of their institutions. This book provides them with a unique approach to diagnosing a school, school system or college’s organizational health and determining what interventions might be necessary...
No Laughing Matter
The Value of Humor in Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Educators are not alone in perennially seeking the best leadership practices and applying them to their own leadership behavior. What constitutes effective leadership seems to be on the minds of people everywhere. Recently, there has been some seminal work done with regard to the role of humor in...
Level B: Student Text
hm Learning & Study Skills Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
Level B: Grades 3-4
Children of the elementary school age think differently than do older children, adolescents, or adults. They are more holistic in their interaction with the world. The hm Program presents study skills appropriate for young children, teaching them to listen, observe, and visualize...
Paradigm Lost
Leading America Beyond Its Fear of Educational Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
In Paradigm Lost, Spady explores the important changes in culture, instruction, school calendars and school agenda that school leaders must make to prepare students for the next millennium despite the fact that the current system of schooling leads to institutional inertia that counters the very changes...
Reviving Professional Learning Communities
Strength through Diversity, Conflict, Teamwork, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
A Professional Learning Community is undeniably one of the most effective processes out there for improving student achievement, as well a school’s overarching culture and climate. With such widespread notoriety, though, there has been a dilution of the true essence of the term. Understanding of...
Breaking the Cycle
How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
School administrators want to be better leaders, strategic planners, and stewards of their time and resources. Gary Ivory explains that technology, rather than an end in itself, is a powerful tool for administrators with these goals in mind. The compilation of expert advice in his book will walk the...
The Standards-Based Digital School Leader Portfolio
Using TaskStream, LiveText, and PowerPoint
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Here is a comprehensive, step-by-step approach for teaching school leader candidates and school leaders alike to develop a standards-based digital portfolio. The book and accompanying web sites provide three different templates and sample portfolios to choose from. In-depth instructions for the creation...
Human Resource and Contract Management in the Public School
A Legal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
Human resource management, an essential part of public school administration, is particularly vulnerable to legal interpretation and challenge. Like all other institutions that receive federal funds, public schools have a unique rulebook that sets the parameters for management, particularly with respect...
Leading With Emotion
Reaching Balance in Educational Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
It is no surprise that successful school leaders have strong interpersonal skills. That they can communicate, motivate, resolve conflict, build teams, and persuade others at high levels is well documented by research. However, new research indicates that emotion plays a pivotal role in using these...
School-based Mental Health
A Framework for Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
School-based Mental Health: A Framework for Intervention provides essential steps for integrating community-based personnel and programs into school systems for the provision of mental health services. Based on the current school mental health research and practice landscape, the framework consists...
Promoting Your School
A Public Relations Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Schools today are experiencing pressures that have never been faced before. Very often members of the public do not know how their schools are doing, and as a result voters respond negatively. In Promoting Your School: A Public Relations Handbook, Irene Lober clearly describes various processes, methods,...
Equalize Student Achievement
Prioritizing Money and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
The challenge of proper school finance goes beyond having a balanced budget to finding strategies that maximize money to improve schools and equalize student achievement. School finance deals with how money works to support school operations and answer rigorous accountability such as the No Child...
by Kent Freeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1994
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