A Female High School Principal's Guide to Survival
Women are currently being offered more leadership opportunities in educational administration. Writing from her own experience as a high school principal in the United States, Anna T Hicks explores a range of gender and equity issues. Her experiences and insights, though personal, have universal relevance.
This book details the process of developing agreements between high schools and colleges in the United States to allow students to earn both high school and college credit while at high school. The author explains issues including: legal constraints; processes for curriculum alignment; funding sources; and evaluation procedures.
A Female High School Principal's Guide to Survival
Women are currently being offered more leadership opportunities in educational administration. Writing from her own experience as a high school principal in the United States, Anna T Hicks explores a range of gender and equity issues. Her experiences and insights, though personal, have universal relevance.
Using a combination of participant observation and interviews with teachers, parents and students, Rosetta Marantz Cohen explores a high school's efforts in the United States to implement broad-based curricular change. The book vividly illustrates the impact of change on an often resistant institution. From her observations, Cohen draws up a series of recommendations for those considering embarking on similar site-based reform initiatives.
Drawing examples and making recommendations based on their ownexperience as academic administrators and faculty members, distinguished scholars address the drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function.
Most organizational theorists use the athletic team as a metaphor for the effective work group - specific players motivated to give their best performance in pursuit of a common goal. This book offers a different model, focusing instead on the complex ways that members of a leadership team interact, wield power, use language and create meaning. ......
''The next decade promises to be a challenging one for colleges and universities. This book explains why . . . The essays provide an informative historical guide of the past decade while also looking into the future of higher education.''--Christian Science Monitor.
Effective discipline is vital to effective teaching and learning. This book reports the views of teachers and pupils and describes different kinds of practice in schools. Drawing on a three-year research project, it describes the common features underlying different approaches, analyzes key influences on school policy and practice and suggests the benefits and costs of different approaches. This book is the companion volume to Effective Discipline in Primary Schools and Classrooms.
The Management Revolution in American Higher Education
''A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them.'' -- Washington Post''George Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal with future uncertainties and shows how a number ......