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This book is designed to give school districts and/or principals the tools to implement a successful coaching model to support principals. It offers hands on, practical practices to overcome the challenge of principal isolation to help principals succeed in the position and in turn get the most out of their students and teachers, and themselves.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to addressing violence issues using research and evidence-based practices. By offering educators critical ways to measure, and approach violence and prevention, the book provides easy-to-implement suggestions and processes by which educators can created tailored programs to their schools' own needs.

The readers will learn about the importance of nurturing one's talent.

This book focuses on preparing students to be successful independent learners for the twenty first century. Students will construct their own meaning not only within the traditional brick and mortar environment with the assistant of the classroom teacher, but also in an online environment scaffolded by a virtual tutor.

In Death in Acadia, Randi Minetor gathers the stories of fatalities that have occurred in Maine's Acadia National Park, from falls to exposure to cardiac arrest--even getting swept out to sea--and presents dozens of misadventures.

This book addresses the nature of the learner and how to plan and deliver instruction for long term learning.

This book focuses on helping children become self-reliant thinkers and decision-makers. The exercises are "practice runs" to be presented in a casual atmosphere where students share their thinking and receive educator guidance. Educators will learn that observing their students' thinking processes can provide insight into their decision-making.

This book will help Library Support Staff (LSS) understand, support, and apply the basic principles of library supervision and management in their work on the topics of regulations and bylaws hiring, staff performance expectations, leadership and professional learning.

This timely book successfully combines theory and practice to intelligibly show how to prepare prospective school leaders for social justice, equity, and excellence.

The chapters examine new study abroad initiatives while looking closely at the critical role that guided teacher-led experience plays in facilitating intercultural growth and development.

This book gives teachers the tools and the teaching strategies to enable their students to become more discriminating consumers of information and misinformation coming at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press. It is an essential resource, rich in practical suggestions for classroom activities for every grade level.

Almost everyone considers himself or herself an authority on education because he or she has been to school. Depending on whether the school experience was a good one or not so good, people develop belief systems about what school should be. The authors of this book say that what schools should be is continuously improving.

Up and Running is a roadmap for creating a leadership program to meet the needs of colleges and the professional interests of employees. Authors share the basics of starting a program, such as application and selection process, budget, and program format, as well team building, decision making, conflict resolution, and diversity/inclusion.

This book provides fresh analysis of organizational culture in the community college context with a critical examination of the relationship between organizational culture and change.

City on the Line is about a revolution in public budgeting. It is the story of a hard luck city fighting through the Great Recession, a budget director trying to lead disruptive change, and a groundbreaking effort to link strategy, budget and data to get better results for residents.

This book provides examples and recommends highly effective and practical instructional and assessment strategies that classroom teachers can immediately implement and that school administrators can readily observe.

This book argues for a narrative approach to problem solving as it relates to the many challenges facing school boards, superintendents, principals, and other school leaders

This book offers a framework with corresponding rubrics anchored in professional standards: teacher, leader and teacher leader.

This book strives to empower teachers to integrate their unique talents, interests, quirks, and personalities into the classroom setting, and gives administrators, school staff and prospective educators tools to encourage a positive focus for these factors. It makes a helpful supplement for administrator and school leadership trainings.

This book offers insight into the ways in which engagement strategies at the school level can be developed and implemented in order to improve student outcomes.

Practical, field-tested advice on how academic leaders can deal with times pressures and the other stresses of their positions.

Communication and Teamwork: An Introduction for Support Staff contains essential strategies about interpersonal relations, customer service, teamwork, and communication. Using this handbook as a guide, Library Support Staff will be able to apply principles of teamwork by adapting the ALA-LSSC standards of Communication and Teamwork.

Organizing Archival Records has equipped non-professional archivists to tackle the challenging task of arranging and describing archival materials. The 4th edition preserves the practical, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach of earlier editions while updating its content to reflect current archival practices.

Averting a School Crisis explains to its readers how to begin the school preparedness planning process for all the incidents your school can face.

Studies consistently show that physical health among clergy is significantly worse than similar adults who are not in ministry. Flourishing in Ministry offers clergy and those who support them practical advice for not just surviving this grueling profession, but thriving.

This is a practical guide geared toward how to design, maintain, and support the effective teaching practices for adult learners.

Dr. Wages has written a detailed, well documented book that can serve as an informative resource to create an awareness of the multidimensional and complex issues of poverty.

This book describes five principles to guide teachers in working with families of struggling readers.

This book raises some inconvenient truths about higher education, and it challenges several of its cherished assumptions. It then offers specific recommendation for fundamental changes in institutional mission and funding, financial aid, academic curricula and student learning, campus spending, faculty tenure, and intercollegiate athletics.

Now in an updated edition, The Human Journey offers a truly concise yet satisfyingly full history of the world from ancient times to today. Presenting world history in a grand humanistic tradition, the book's scope, as the title implies, is the entire story of humanity in planetary context.