Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a School Leader
As schools grapple with an array of social, economic, and political challenges, education leaders must hone their focus on important tasks and learn how to navigate bureaucratic constraints, policies, and parental concerns while fostering change. This essential guide proposes that school leaders become "brave and focused," not by abandoning ......
Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education
In the 1950s and 1960s, students practiced ducking under their desks in case of an atomic bomb attack. We know that this was silly and provided no protection and many school practices that are popular today are equally silly. This book explores a wide range of what the authors label "duck and cover" policies-ideas that may have started for good ......
Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education
In the 1950s and 1960s, students practiced ducking under their desks in case of an atomic bomb attack. We know that this was silly and provided no protection and many school practices that are popular today are equally silly. This book explores a wide range of what the authors label "duck and cover" policies-ideas that may have started for good ......
Yong Zhao shines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence-based practices and policies.
This book teaches how to build a globalised learning environment that leverages experts and school partnerships to foster students' entrepreneurial competencies with this resource-packed follow up to Zhao's World Class Learners.
Based on the lessons of World Class Learners this new series will show educators at all levels what it takes to help students be more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive.
How to Make Personalization and Student Autonomy Happen
This first book in a new series shows educators at all levels what it takes to help students become more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive. This book gives practical guidance to implement the new education paradigm-the entrepreneur-oriented education paradigm-outlined in the Corwin publication World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. This book on Personalized Education expands the elements of a world-class education that aims to cultivate globally competent, creative, and entrepreneurial talents with practical ideas and examples that correlate closely to 21stCentury demands for students with technical skills, creativity, decision making capacity and great communication skills.
