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Creating an Award-Winning School: Outside the Box Thinking for
Inside-the- School Success, is the result of collaboration between
the authors and practicing and retired administrators. The book is
written for new and experienced school administrators, college
level instructors, and leaders in the private sector. The authors
designed the Principals' Professional Pyramid to serve as the
foundation for the book. Creating the Pyramid and adapting the
steps from the study of Steven Covey's Principle-Centered
Leadership, the authors arranged the tasks of administration into
five major steps. The steps are ONESELF, OTHERS, ORGANIZATION, and
OPERATIONS and OUTREACH. The authors developed these steps because
they felt that a principal should begin with ONESELF before dealing
successfully with OTHERS. Once organization is implemented, then
the principal can deal with the continued OPERATIONS of all the
school. OUTREACH into a professional network is a necessity for the
success of a building leader.Embedded in the book are suggestions
of Outside the Box Thinking or practical ideas to enhance the
day-to-day operations of the building leader. Field techniques,
forms, charts, diagrams, and reflections offered by the authors.
These have been used to support the topics and enhance the content
for the reader.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, universities around the globe
have taken numerous extraordinary measures and implemented many
changes to their strategic, operational, and academic activities.
Currently, there is a transformation taking place from the
emergency decision-making in the early stages of the pandemic
towards reflection and resolution on how the past months can shape
governance and strategy. Higher education institutions have been
facing challenges with the alignment of their university governance
for their strategic and operational plans. Presently, university
leaders have prioritized risk management and financial management
over all else. Unfortunately, due to these priorities, university
responses to the pandemic took the top-down approach of management,
rejecting the shared governance structures and collegial practices
of the institutions. The pandemic has accelerated the openness to
change by creating an emergency or steering response team led by
university presidents and provosts, with sub-teams focusing on
operations and other academic advisory groups working together to
deal with the fast-rising scenarios. The consequence is a clear
flow of information and strong communication across the
institution, which sequentially builds on mechanisms to respond to
the secondary effects of the pandemic. Moreover, higher education
institutions are continuously facing challenges with their
strategic alignment of business objectives in order to have a
diverse educational system in response to the pandemic. Assessing
University Governance and Policies in Relation to the COVID-19
Pandemic presents the latest research and studies investigating
information on university governance and adapting previous,
existing, and proposed models for the current pandemic. This book
is comprised of chapters contributed by various leading
international authors to discuss and analyze all aspects of
university governance in relation to their impact on strategies in
finance, sustainability, academic issues, research, faculty and
students, leadership, campus, employment and recruitments, and
more. This is an essential text for university presidents,
strategic planning authorities in universities, college deans and
academic department chairpersons, government authorities and
policymakers, researchers, students, and academicians.
Creating an Award-Winning School: Outside the Box Thinking for
Inside-the- School Success, is the result of collaboration between
the authors and practicing and retired administrators. The book is
written for new and experienced school administrators, college
level instructors, and leaders in the private sector. The authors
designed the Principals' Professional Pyramid to serve as the
foundation for the book. Creating the Pyramid and adapting the
steps from the study of Steven Covey's Principle-Centered
Leadership, the authors arranged the tasks of administration into
five major steps. The steps are ONESELF, OTHERS, ORGANIZATION, and
OPERATIONS and OUTREACH. The authors developed these steps because
they felt that a principal should begin with ONESELF before dealing
successfully with OTHERS. Once organization is implemented, then
the principal can deal with the continued OPERATIONS of all the
school. OUTREACH into a professional network is a necessity for the
success of a building leader.Embedded in the book are suggestions
of Outside the Box Thinking or practical ideas to enhance the
day-to-day operations of the building leader. Field techniques,
forms, charts, diagrams, and reflections offered by the authors.
These have been used to support the topics and enhance the content
for the reader.
The book is both a call to action and a how-to guide to effective
teaching. It is written in a readable, accessible style, yet it is
supported by a wealth of knowledge and experience. The intended
audience is aspiring and current secondary school teachers and
administrators, curriculum directors, and college education
professors, as well as lay people interested in practical
progressive education. This book offers dozens of strategies and
original ideas to enhance teaching all manner of students in all
kinds of secondary schools.
If you need to develop learning activities that create relevant
professional learning for teachers, this book is for you.
Professional Learning: A Planning Guide is a practical resource
with a research-based foundation that produces desired results. If
you are responsible for designing, developing, and delivering
professional learning to teachers, this book is for you. This
planning guide contains examples, explanations, and space for
readers to create their own activities. If you would like a set of
professional learning templates that produce activities which
sustain teachers' learning over time, this book is for you. This
planning guide contains ready-to-use templates that help you
develop activities for teachers' use before, during, after, and
beyond implementation. If you desire to create professional
learning that initiates lasting improvements in teachers'
practices, this book is for you. Every template aligns with at one
or more educational change elements.
Teaching is not a job, it's a passion. Caring and compassionate
educators will stop at nothing to be sure their students have
everything they need to flourish. As teaching demands increase, the
attention teachers give to their own needs is often sacrificed. The
pressures of teaching are forcing educators to choose between what
they love to do and their own well-being. The levels of stress are
so high that teacher shortages are considered a crisis in the
United States. Authors Connie Hamilton and Dorothy VanderJagt share
an alternative. They believe it's possible to be a highly effective
teacher and focus on yourself. Strained and Drained: Tools for
Overworked Teachers describes five areas of wellness and offers
realistic and practical ways that teachers can create habits to
support each one. You'll find effective ways to take care of YOU,
both in and out of the classroom. Wellness is not an isolated
activity, it's a way of life and requires a mindset that values and
prioritizes it. The strategies you gain from this book will support
your physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and spiritual health
and will put you at your best so you can enjoy what the authors
still believe is the most important and rewarding profession on
earth.
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Due to the increasingly diverse populations found in Pre-K-12
education, it is imperative that teacher educators prepare
preservice teachers to meet the shifting needs of changing student
populations. Through the integration of social justice education,
teacher educators can challenge the mainstream curriculum with a
lens of equity and collaborative equality. Integrating Social
Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs is a critical
research book that explores the preparation and teaching methods of
educators for including social justice curriculum. Highlighting a
wide range of topics such as ethics, language-based learning, and
feminism, this book is ideal for academicians, curriculum
designers, social scientists, teacher educators, researchers, and
students.
Traditionally, internationalization efforts in higher education
have been rooted in (neo)liberal transactional models that restrict
or compromise the space for meaningful exchanges of socio-cultural
capital. Recently, researchers and practitioners in the
international education field have taken issue with programming and
practices in education abroad; international student recruitment;
and internationalization of the curricula that perpetuate systems
of imbalance, fossilize prejudices, adversely impact host
communities abroad, and limit student learning to the confines of
the Western epistemological traditions. As a result, scholars and
practitioners are creating new paradigms for engagement and
exchange. People-Centered Approaches Toward the
Internationalization of Higher Education is an essential scholarly
publication that examines the praxis of internationalization in
higher education with empirical research and relevant models of
practice that approach the topic critically and responsibly. The
book innovates and (re)humanizes internationalization efforts,
including education abroad, international recruitment,
international scholar and student services, and
internationalization of curriculum, by focusing on the people and
communities touched, intentionally and unintentionally, by said
efforts. It is ideal for higher education faculty, education
professionals, academic advisors, academicians, administrators,
curriculum designers, researchers, and students.
Emerging Human Resource Trends in Academic Libraries presents the
collective wisdom of human resource librarians and administrators
who have been in the forefront of practicing and applying the human
resource principles in academic libraries. The book is divided into
five Parts: Part I focuses on the present academic library
environment and the unique human resource challenges that can be
found there. Part II looks at the role of LIS education in
preparing Masters level librarians to work within academic
libraries and beyond. Part III examines how human resource
departments in organizations can continue education beyond the
degree for professionals and other staff. Part IV is concerned with
how academic libraries show their value to the parent institution.
Part V focuses on the library staff roles, how they have changed,
and how they are valued in relation to faculty and professional
positions. These chapters within each Part represent the emerging
trends within academic libraries that impact how librarians are
educated, mentored and given the ability to obtain professional
development training as incumbent librarians as changes occur in
the field. Each chapter is written by a practitioner in HR who has
experienced related problems and sought solutions.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequities and inequalities
in accessing educational opportunities among different social
groups. Consequently, the idea of inclusivity in education has
become an abstract phenomenon that widens the digital divide and
creates social injustice. This calls for an immediate coordinated
response from all stakeholders of education and government to
ensure that no one will be left behind as we navigate the so-called
new normal. Without an appropriate intervention and sound policy
guidance, negative repercussions may be so widespread that they
will remain a problem in the education sector far into the future.
Socioeconomic Inclusion During an Era of Online Education aims to
bring together the school-wide pedagogies, practices, and policies
that have been implemented or will be proposed to ensure inclusive
education in online learning environments. Best practices and
innovative approaches from various educational institutions serve
as models to ensure everyone has access to a quality online
education. Covering topics such as academic policies, educational
technology, and curriculum development, this reference work is
ideal for academicians, practitioners, researchers, scholars,
instructors, and students seeking to adjust and adapt with teaching
and learning online not only during a pandemic (i.e., emergency
remote education) but also during "normal times.
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