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  • Professional Standards for the Superintendency

    School superintendents provide leadership and inspiration in school districts across the country. They must be skilled collaborators who can rally resources to support better education for all children living in our multicultural society. Professional standards will help to ensure excellence in the American school superintendency. Developed by a special AASA Commission on Standards for the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ten Skills of Highly Effective Principals

    In sixteen case histories based on principals' real experiences, you will be confronted with a series of harsh, but realistic challenges to your administrative skills, professional and personal values, and courage. These case histories and related texts will help you identify, understand and internalize major skills that are essential in your work. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Case Studies for School Leaders

    Implementing the ISLLC Standards

    Whatever your profession, a common base of knowledge and standards of performance are required for admission to practice. As an educator, while it is true that the individual states administer actual licensure procedures, they do so based on core standards established across states. These case studies, which cover a cross-section of these core values, are highly useful for people preparing to ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Total Leaders

    Applying The Best Future-Focused Change Strategies to Education

    Total Leaders puts the minds of the most respected futurist, leadership, and change authorities to work for you in one simple yet dynamic leadership model that will help you strengthen your insights, performance, and effectiveness. The authors, a former superintendent and a national reform leader, spent the past 15 years individually reading and collectively synthesizing more than 100 of the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders

    Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders provides a complete overview of the knowledge base and skills for successful school leaders. The publication is based on the standards developed by AASA, ISLLC, NPBEA, NCATE, and state education agencies. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Paradigm Lost

    Leading America Beyond Its Fear of Educational Change

    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 we most need to make. Spady's big-picture view refutes the wisdom of adhering to a system of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Building Leadership Capacity in Schools

    by Linda Lambert ...
    When schools are being hit with staff turnover, budget cuts, and changing priorities, how do you ensure that improvements stick, educators keep learning, and student performance continues to advance?In this follow-up to her ASCD best-seller Building Leadership Capacity in Schools, Linda Lambert answers that question and explains how to sustain a learning community where everyone takes ownership of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Chunky Penguin ULTIMATE Group Activity Guide

    Icebreaker Games, Team Building Activities And Group Game Ideas

    by Jeff Millett ...
    Hi, my name is Jeff Millett, and I started IcebreakerGames.Net 1999 in an effort to help managers, teachers, good friends, administrators - ALL LEADERS, such as yourself. During the last few years, my games and activities (all in digital form, so you can instantly download them) have been enjoyed by thousands of people, of all ages, in various settings throughout America and in 16 other countries. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethical Leadership

    In Pursuit of the Common Good

    by Bill Grace ...
    This monograph by the Center's founder, Bill Grace, is an excellent primer on ethical leadership, Bill's 4-V model, and the common good. It is full of stories, examples and practical steps to advance the common good. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anguish of Leadership

    In this unique look at leadership, Patterson shares the results of interviews he conducted with 14 highly respected superintendents about the human side of this important job. These outstanding superintendents provide insights that can't be gained in any educational administration program about the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of school leadership. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Entrepreneurial Educator

    Demands for vouchers, charter schools, the growth of home schooling and the rebirth of private education are creating increased competition for public schools. This primer and toolkit for the educators of tomorrow offers skill development ideas, specific ideas, examples, and questions that will guide school leaders as they compete in the new educational marketplace. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Study of the American Superintendency, 2000

    A Look at the Superintendent of Education in the New Millennium

    The Study of the American School Superintendency, 2000 is the ninth 10-Year Study of the American School Superintendent commissioned by AASA. This 174-page reference work on the superintendency is the largest and most comprehensive look at the men and women leading our nation's public schools. It includes a wide range of information about and from superintendents, including a close examination of: ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers

    How to Hire, Coach, and Mentor Successful Teachers

    Discover the qualities that yield exceptional performance and far-reaching success!As all educators increasingly face the pressures of accountability, filling our schools with effective teachers skilled at fostering outstanding academic achievement has never been more important. In this quick-read resource, Elaine McEwan explores the ten characteristics that lead to success in the classroom, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Team Strategies for Success

    Doing What Counts in Education

    Break down the barriers within your school organization! Teaming is a collaborative educational model necessary for the increasingly sophisticated world of the Information Age. This book is a primer—containing both theory and practice—for the educator looking for team strategies and success. It is designed around the principle that educational teams are composed of highly interrelated processes. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Eight at the Top

    A View Inside Public Education

    There are over 15,000 superintendents leading school districts across the United States today. Yet, despite the high visibility and prestige of the position, what superintendents actually do, on a day-to-day basis, remains mysterious to the layman and even to those in the profession. This book, authored by eight California superintendents, is a narrative telling their stories_from the professional ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Perspectives on the Mistreatment of American Educators

    Throwing Water on a Drowning Man

    Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work and role marginalized as insignificant despite compelling evidence to the contrary. This enlightening discussion of the misperceptions about the profession offers a thoughtful perspective on the real work done by educators and examines some of the harm ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Leadership for Rural Schools

    Lessons for All Educators

    More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural schools in general and their leaders. This book will be of special interest to everyone involved in the operation of a rural school district. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Quantum Leaps in School Leadership

    This book theorizes that models based on the classical sciences have misguided educational leadership. Dr. Rettig sees the open dynamics of twentieth-century science — specifically, quantum mechanics — as a better and more natural model, and describes what he sees as a method of leadership light years beyond those of today. Dr. Rettig illustrates his erudite critique of the contemporary school ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Assessment

    What's In It For Schools?

    Series series What's in it for schools?
    There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking and looks at how assessment can be used to promote or inhibit learning. Unlike other books on the market, this one summarizes theory and shows how it can be best put into practice, using as little jargon as possible.Some of the issues discussed in this ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap

    How to Measure Equity in Our Schools

    "Dr. Johnson′s work provides both the philosophical and practical blueprint for transforming public schools into the learning communities we want and need. Leaders will find the book to be the most useful document to guide and inform their efforts to close the gap and maximize learning for all students."Joseph Burke, Superintendent of SchoolsSpringfield Public SchoolsSpringfield, MA"If the goal of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Joey's Story

    A Portrait of a School Leader

    The twists and turns and influences of life that helped shape the career of this award-winning school administrator form a story worth telling and sharing with anyone who works or aspires to a career in education. The book is a revealing look at the author's childhood spent growing up in a large city and the people and events that helped to shape his passionate philosophy and beliefs about public ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership

    Updated Edition of Best Seller!"You won′t find a more practical, detailed guide to improving school effectiveness than is contained between the covers of this book!"Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean School of EducationUniversity of La VerneLa Verne, CA"Few books on school leadership have effectively brought together the best of educational theory and practice for school administrators as Elaine McEwan′s ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The New School Leader for the 21st Century

    The Principal

    Veteran educators Seifert and Vornberg utilize the six standards created by the Interstate School Leaders Consortium (ISLLIC) and used in developing and redesigning preparation programs and state certification examinations to discuss those issues faced by practicing elementary and secondary school principals. Each chapter begins with a short case study emanating from a fictitious school district ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Teachers and the State

    Towards a Directed Profession

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book examines the status of training and continuing professional development of teachers on a national and international level. The authors argue that teachers need to feel that they are part of an empowering professionalism, in which their work has an effect on the abilities of students, and where they play a valuable role in shaping the direction of future society. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD