Destined to Rule the Schools

Jackie M Blount

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Tells the story of women and school leadership in America from the common school era to the present. Offers an historical account of how teaching beca... Lees meer

The Case for Commitment to Teacher Growth

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Most evaluations of teacher performance are brief, superficial, pro forma affairs involving a few moments of classroom observation every year or two f... Lees meer

Education Policy Implementation

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• This supplemental text for educational policy, administration, and program evaluation courses provides a framework for examining the following crucial... Lees meer

Approaches to Administrative Training in Education

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• In this important new collection Murphy and Hallinger bring together descriptions of a wide range of the new models in use in educational administrati... Lees meer

Education Empire

Daniel L Duke

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Traces the organizational history of Fairfax County public schools in Virginia, from 1954-2004, revealing the system's record of academic success. Des... Lees meer

Teacher Induction and Mentoring

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• The ordeals and stresses of the first year of teaching have often been cited as reasons why many new teachers become discouraged and even abandon thei... Lees meer

Pushing the Limits

Sakre K Edson

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• By providing new understanding and insights into the backgrounds and experiences of women pursuing administrative careers in education, Pushing the Li... Lees meer

Decision Making for Educational Leaders

Bob L Johnson, Sharon D Kruse

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• A guide to decision making for school administrators. Why another book on decision making? In this increasingly complex world, there are many tensions... Lees meer

The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• This anthology summarizes and critiques the current knowledge base in the field of educational administration. For scholars and practitioners who are ... Lees meer

Holiness in Words

Edward K Kaplan

• Hardcover | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety is both an introduction to reading Heschel's works in English, and an in-depth study of t... Lees meer

The Managerial Imperative and the Practice of Leadership in Schools

Larry Cuban

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• With this significant new work, Larry Cuban provides a unique and insightful perspective on the bridging of the long-standing and well-known gap betwe... Lees meer

Principal Succession

Ann Weaver Hart

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• This book examines major issues in theory and research related to leader succession. It looks at the persistent problems confronted by people assigned... Lees meer

Hauntings

Joseph Natoli

• Hardcover | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Explores the way that popular film brings to a "sayable" level that which haunts us in the media headlines. We are haunted by what we cannot fully ide... Lees meer

Work Orientation and Job Performance

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• With critical attention focused on education, and the teaching profession itself under close scrutiny by federal, state, and local officials and gover... Lees meer

Restructuring Schools for Collaboration

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• A comprehensive discussion, from multiple perspectives, of the complex nature of school collaboration efforts. This book provides a more comprehensive... Lees meer

The Little School System That Could

Daniel L Duke

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Examines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginia's Manassas Park City School's ten-year turnaround. The Little School System That Could is a ... Lees meer

Teacher Burnout in the Public Schools

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• This unique study is the first large-scale sociological analysis of teacher burnout, linking it with alienation, commitment, and turnover in the educa... Lees meer

Change in Schools

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• This book summarizes nearly fifteen years of research in schools-research geared toward understanding and describing the change process as experienced... Lees meer

School as Community

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Addresses the question: How can school communities be created and sustained? An increasingly important and appealing concept for school renewal is tha... Lees meer

In Teachers' Hands

Richard J Stiggins, Nancy Faires Conklin

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• This book marks the starting point of a profound shift in assessment priorities, detailing the results of a decade-long program of research on classro... Lees meer

Values and Educational Leadership

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Studies values and their influences in educational leadership. Values and Educational Leadership extends beyond the presentation of expert opinion to ... Lees meer

Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Using Virginia as a case study, examines the role that educational leaders play in the implementation of statewide accountability plans. The insistenc... Lees meer

Teacher Evaluation Policy

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• Since the beginning of the school reform movement in the early 1980's, various efforts have been made to improve teacher evaluation. Most of the initi... Lees meer

Expert Problem Solving

Kenneth Leithwood, Rosanne Steinbach

• Paperback | Engels | SUNY Series, Educational Leadership
• This book presents a series of related empirical studies about the thinking and problem solving processes of expert educational leaders. It describes ... Lees meer