This text helps current and aspiring administrators, teachers, and curriculum directors successfully restructure, enhance, and implement school K-12 curriculum. Now in its Fifth Edition, this foundational book highlights 21st century educational ideas and advocacy, while also remaining focused on tried and true strategies for meeting state and national standards in today's diverse classrooms. With the support of this thought-provoking and extensively researched text, readers will develop a working and thorough foundation of curriculum to effectively implement in the classrooms of the future.

This book is concerned with the conflict in United States schools between principals and teachers over teacher supervision. Many teachers are unhappy, regarding classroom supervision as a meaningless and intrusive ritual where all teachers - regardless of experience and competence - receive the same superficial treatment. The solution advocated by the authors includes a more individualized, less clinical form of supervision which draws upon the best of current research on teaching and team leadership.

Learn how to hire, develop, and retain highly qualified teachers. Developing Highly Qualified Teachers answers the questions "what is quality teaching" and "how is quality teaching achieved." The authors include strategies for: - quality induction programs; - working with marginal teachers; - using self-directed development for quality teachers; - using cooperative development for quality teachers; - working with mentors; - linking staff development with teacher development. Addressing the NCLB guidelines, this book will help you develop a strong faculty of highly qualified teachers.

The definitive guide to writing for publication (and more)!

Successfully translating thoughts and ideas into the printed word can seem daunting to even the most experienced educator. Step-by-step, author and scholar Allan A. Glatthorn guides education professionals through the basics of the writing process, empowering them with the tools to create and enhance their own professional submissions and writings. The down-to-earth, conversational tone helps to effectively convey and outline specific writing strategies for contributions to research journals, articles, op-ed pieces, manuscripts, literature reviews, theses, funding proposals, internal organizational writing.

Key features include:

• Finding a topic
• Correctly identifying your audience
• Choosing the appropriate forum
• Revising and editing
• Working with editors and publishers
• Maximizing use of the Internet and other technological tools 

Allan A. Glatthorn has taught writing for more than 25 years, and is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University. During his prolific 55-year teaching career, he has written more than 50 texts on writing and more than 30 professional books. In Publish or Perish?The Educator?s Imperative, he shares his wealth of knowledge and experience about professional publishing and the writing process, in hopes that his work will help you achieve your own goals and imperatives.

Since 1998, this book has been the go-to resource for scholars seeking guidance at every phase of the process. This revised and updated fourth edition is the most comprehensive guide yet to researching, writing, and publishing a successful thesis or dissertation

Now in its forth edition, this best seller has helped successive cohorts of principals create the best possible curriculum. The authors examine four levels of curriculum - state, district, school, and classroom - to explain how effective principals influence curriculum at every stage. The authors re-examine the key issues that continue to influence principals in the "real world", and include examples of ways principals can incorporate curriculum leadership into their organizational behaviour. This book will guide principals in working with teachers to generate meaningful curricula which will raise the level of learning - and teaching - in your school.

A Prayer for Inner Peace is an inspirational poem that comes alive with global photography. As a guide for daily life, it offers all of us reminders of the simplicity we need for a peaceful existence.

The definitive guide to writing for publication (and more)!

Successfully translating thoughts and ideas into the printed word can seem daunting to even the most experienced educator. Step-by-step, author and scholar Allan A. Glatthorn guides education professionals through the basics of the writing process, empowering them with the tools to create and enhance their own professional submissions and writings. The down-to-earth, conversational tone helps to effectively convey and outline specific writing strategies for contributions to research journals, articles, op-ed pieces, manuscripts, literature reviews, theses, funding proposals, internal organizational writing.

Key features include:

• Finding a topic
• Correctly identifying your audience
• Choosing the appropriate forum
• Revising and editing
• Working with editors and publishers
• Maximizing use of the Internet and other technological tools 

Allan A. Glatthorn has taught writing for more than 25 years, and is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University. During his prolific 55-year teaching career, he has written more than 50 texts on writing and more than 30 professional books. In Publish or Perish?The Educator?s Imperative, he shares his wealth of knowledge and experience about professional publishing and the writing process, in hopes that his work will help you achieve your own goals and imperatives.

This book is concerned with the conflict in United States schools between principals and teachers over teacher supervision. Many teachers are unhappy, regarding classroom supervision as a meaningless and intrusive ritual where all teachers - regardless of experience and competence - receive the same superficial treatment. The solution advocated by the authors includes a more individualized, less clinical form of supervision which draws upon the best of current research on teaching and team leadership.

Learn how to hire, develop, and retain highly qualified teachers. Developing Highly Qualified Teachers answers the questions "what is quality teaching" and "how is quality teaching achieved." The authors include strategies for: - quality induction programs; - working with marginal teachers; - using self-directed development for quality teachers; - using cooperative development for quality teachers; - working with mentors; - linking staff development with teacher development. Addressing the NCLB guidelines, this book will help you develop a strong faculty of highly qualified teachers.