This is a practical guide that provides an answer to the questions 'Where do I start?' and 'Where do I look for direction?' It is organized around five key sections, and each section includes brief overviews, checklists, and suggestions for further reading. Organization and Management - the role of the principal, negligence and liability, media relations, managing conflict and difficult people, effective meetings, resource management, records and information, facility management; Teaching and Learning - school programs, learning communities, special education, supervision and evaluation, staff development, unions, celebrating success; Behavior and Discipline - safe schools, code of conduct, supervision and expulsion, search and seizure, police protocols; Health and Safety - reporting child abuse, occupational health and safety, emergency preparation, medical needs, health and safety resources; Looking After Yourself - professional development, wellness, and balance Including words of wisdom from first-year principals, and voices of experience from over 60 veteran elementary and secondary principals, this reference book will be used over and over again.
This volume contains some of the most importantand enduring work of Gerhard von Rad, the mostinfluential Old Testament theologian of the twentiethcentury. The chapters cover a broad range of topics,including the doctrine of creation, memory and tradition inDeuteronomy, historical writing in ancient Israel, culticlanguage in the Psalms, and the Old ......
Capitalism is well known for producing a form of existence where 'everything solid melts into air'. But what happens when capitalism develops theories about itself? Are we moving into a condition in which capitalism can be said to possess a brain? These questions are pursued in this sparkling and thought-provoking book. Thrift looks at what he calls 'the cultural circuit of capitalism', the mechanism for generating new theories of capitalism. Knowing Capitalism traces the rise of this circuit back to the 1960s when a series of institutions locked together to interrogate capitalism, to the present day, when these institutions are moving out to the Pacific basin and beyond. What have these theories produced? How have they been implicated in the speculative bubbles that characterized the late twentieth century? What part have they played in developing our understanding of human relations? Building on an inter-disciplinary approach which embraces the core social sciences, Thrift outlines an exciting new theory for understanding capitalism. His book will be of interest to readers in Geography, Social Theory, Anthropology and Cultural Economics. Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of cultural analysis of global capitalism that has long been needed - one that emphasizes the innovative energy of global capitalism. The book avoids stale denouncements and offers instead a view of capitalism as a form of practice' - Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany
This textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the philosophy of science. Through asking whether science can provide us with objective knowledge of the world, the book provides a thorough and accessible guide to the key thinkers and debates that define the field. Couvalis surveys traditional themes around theory and observation, induction, ......
