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Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times
Move leadership into the digital age Digital leadership is a strategic mindset and set of behaviors that leverages resources to create a meaningful, transparent, and engaging school culture. It takes into account recent changes such as ubiquitous connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization to dramatically shift how schools have been run and structured for over a century.
Leading in education becomes exponentially powerful when using technology to your advantage. Corwin Publishers.
Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-Based Approach to Implementing the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 5th Edition Pearson Educational Leadership
Affordable. The enhanced pearson etext may be purchased stand-alone for 50-60% less than a print bound book. Note: this is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. The pearson etext app is available on Google Play and in the App Store. The enhanced etext features are only available in the Pearson eText format.
Convenient. An invaluable guide to what today’s educators need to know, competencies, and the ways they should behave as exemplary leaders, requirements, the book takes into account the many changes in the standards, and accountability movements that have ushered in a new set of demands, how they need to do it, and expectations for today’s educational leaders.
Practicing the art of leadership by reginald leon green presents success-proven practices, processes, current research, and the creative, innovative, and procedures grounded in time-tested theories, real-life experiences of educators in the field who are transforming underperforming schools into thriving educational learning communities.
This new edition features opportunities for reflective practice through the use of scenarios depicting actual school issues, occurrences, and the behavior of practicing school leaders to help readers acquire knowledge and skills that can be used to build a solid framework for their own practice. The book’s focus on how to use the new 2015 professional standards for Educational Leaders helps educators develop teacher capacity, lead instructional change, construct appropriate organizational policies and systems, effectively manage organizational resources, create professional learning communities, and engage in other deep and meaningful work outside of the classroom and in the community.
Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play The MIT Press
To thrive in today's fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively―and the best way to do that is by focusing more on imagining, sharing, and reflecting, playing, creating, just as children do in traditional kindergartens. Drawing on experiences from more than thirty years at MIT's Media Lab, Resnick discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning experiences.
By providing young people with opportunities to work on projects, in a playful spirit, in collaboration with peers, based on their passions, we can help them prepare for a world where creative thinking is more important than ever before. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. He tells stories of how children are programming their own games, stories, created by a twelve-year-old girl, crowdsourcing, a diary security system, and collaborating through remixing, and inventions for example, and large-scale group projects such as a Halloween-themed game called Night at Dreary Castle, produced by more than twenty kids scattered around the world.
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American Higher Education Core Concepts in Higher Education
Corwin Publishers. A blend of stories and analysis, this exciting new book challenges present and future higher education practitioners to be informed and active participants, capable of improving their institutions. Thelin, community colleges, and practice and discusses a range of institutions – including the often overlooked for-profits, each chapter bridges research, theory, and minority serving institutions.
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School Libraries 3.0: Principles and Practices for the Digital Age
Sample policies, procedures, and plans make this book valuable to both new and experienced school librarians. Rowman Littlefield Publishers. Major chapters cover the various roles of the school librarian, curricular standards and guidelines, facilities, programming, policies and procedures, services, budgeting, advocacy, ethics, personnel, and evaluation.
Corwin Publishers. This textbook, for school library administration courses, is written by a professor who has taught this course at least once a year for the past twenty years.
Designing a School Library Media Center for the Future
Combining all aspects of design for the school library media center floor plans, furniture, bidding, and evaluation this newly updated edition addresses# Current and future technological needs of the student population# Unique needs of the community library that combines school and public library services# Sustainability and conservation issues to help designers and planners go green # Accessibility requirements, including all ADA regulations from the first edition plus the latest material on learning styles and accessibility# Cost control and ways to minimize mistakes using proven bidding and evaluation methodsWith 30 new illustrations and floor plans and an updated glossary of technical terms, technology, readers will be knowledgeable and organized when discussing plans with contractors and vendors.
. Using the guidance here, you ll avoid the classic building and renovation hazards and build a library media center for the future! Corwin Publishers.
Protecting Intellectual Freedom and Privacy in Your School Library SLM Hot Topics
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School Law and the Public Schools: A Practical Guide for Educational Leaders 6th Edition The Pearson Educational Leadership Series
The new sixth edition of school law and the public schools by nathan essex brings readers the latest information on today’s most critical issues, social media, legal aspects of teachers and administrators’ evaluation, administrators’ authority at bus stops, among them: recent rulings on religion in public schools, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Act, 504 Rehabilitation plans, virtual charter schools, Facebook and Twitter challenges, teacher performance and misconduct, violence and tragedy in U.
S. Schools, proposed changes to no child left Behind by the White House, procedures for evaluating and responding to threats, natural disasters and school safety, and the use of chaperones for field trips. Used book in Good Condition. Corwin Publishers.
Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Lincoln on leadership is the first book to examine Abraham Lincoln's diverse leadership abilities and how they can be applied to today's complex world. You think you have it rough?only ten days before abraham Lincoln took the oath of office in 1861, forts, the Confederate States of America seceded from the Union, taking all Federal agencies, and arenas within their territory.
. In lincoln on leadership you'll discover why you should:Seize the initiative and never relinquish it. Wage only one war at a time. Avoid issuing order and instead request, imply, or make suggestions. Once in a while, let things slip, unbeknownst-like. Corwin Publishers.
Special Education Program Administrator's Handbook
Current administrators with extensive knowledge of special education share their experience through contributed chapters. The practical, real world advice will prove useful not only for special education administrators, but also for principals and assistant principals. Corwin Publishers. Used book in Good Condition.
A practical handbook designed to help special education administrators, principals and assistant principals address many of the issues they will confront relating to students with disabilities. Warner Books NY. Rowman Littlefield Publishers.