A Primer For Teachers And Leaders

Conducting Educational Research: A Primer for Teachers and Administrators is designed to provide the step-wise, content-specific information masters students must possess to design, conduct, and disseminate a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods classroom or school research study.

Mindfulness has become a very popular concept in recent years. This book positions heartfulness as an additional requirement for holistic leadership in the education sector and beyond. Mindfulness alone will not account for all the progress needed to cope with key challenges of our times, such as the system shock COVID-19 imposed, and artificial intelligence is triggering at the moment. Heartful leaders will spot more opportunities and will create better educational solutions. They will enable truly unique learning journeys and foster more human development.

A Primer for New Principals is a current and concise guide for beginning principals on how to meet the demands of principalship. Information is organized by grade level and is relevant for principals of K-12 public, charter, or private schools. More than 100 references and recommended readings are also provided. Book jacket.

The plans for reforming, restructuring, transforming or simply just improving our schools have been endless, often incoherent, and usually poorly focused. The author, as his professional career reveals, held significant and unique positions from which to analyze these efforts. Thrust into an educational improvement leadership responsibility shortly before the Nation At Risk was released, he relates his journey and his learning throughout two decades. Few have seen close-up the struggles of as many schools nation wide while also being deeply involved in the educational improvement efforts of the nation's largest teachers union. His search for the formulas leading to real improvement led him to the private sector's quality movement. This book will relate how quality principles should be translated into various educational applications. It tackles head-on the role of unions in that process and considers a long list of quality concepts, as it weaves them all together as never before. The book is both theoretical and practical. It raises questions, offers some possible answers, and draws some specific conclusions. Anyone playing a significant role in sustained efforts at improving public schools should read this book carefully and welcome the reflection it stimulates.

Do you want a practical book on implementing character education? DeRoche and Williams provide school leaders with an effective road map, touring schools that have achieved success. The authors divide the reader's journey through reform efforts into several tour stops, beginning with a review of the character education framework, passing through subjects such as school climate, core values, training personnel, forming relationships, and concluding with guidelines for evaluation. Each stop contains a list of helpful articles or books, as well as valuable Internet resources. The conclusion of the journey is ultimately the responsibility of school leaders, but this book will give you a head start.

Discover the secrets of successful teacher leadership! Whether you’re a teacher who’s ready to take on new roles or an administrator looking to develop strong leaders, this content-driven handbook is here to help you make distributed school leadership a reality. Inside you’ll find specific how-tos for the essential skills teacher leaders need most: running meetings, teaching colleagues, providing feedback, conducting needs assessments, delivering effective professional development, resolving conflicts, employing technology, and more. The book features: Well-tested content and activities Reflective writing prompts Scenarios for discussion Self-evaluations Two companion guides: one for teachers, and one for administrators

This edited collection provides middle and high school classroom teachers of English language arts, social studies, and other disciplines the inspiration and insight necessary to utilize an arts integration approach in their teaching. Whether you want your students to create documentaries, maps, mixed media, songs, quilts, dances, masks, or a remix of multiple art forms, the point of school can and should be more about how students create their own meaning in powerful ways and harness their creativity for social good. Arts integration is one approach demonstrated to be invaluable in these terms, moving teachers and students into a mindset of ‘what can we create today?’, sure to inject energy into classrooms, learning, and lives. ENDORSEMENTS: "Arts-Integrated theory and practice create a beautiful dance, are quilted together, and even recite a theatrical monologue in this book that takes arts integration in multiple forms and puts it into terms that work for the busy classroom teacher. Written by classroom teachers, passion and professionalism are evident in each chapter as the strategies and stories about them unfold to provide a platform for teachers to grow in their practice and to create vibrant classrooms along the way." — Sean Layne, Focus 5, Inc. "For all of us working in the arts, arts integration is a term that gets thrown around with many competing definitions. The authors have taken all that and made it practical and useful for this generation of learners. This book has the special sauce for making arts integration relevant to student learning and encouraging creativity though practical examples that can and will inspire you to try them out. After reading this book you will want to sing, dance, draw, and make art in your classroom or museum." — Zev Slurzberg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art