Educational administrators are faced with making decisions on a daily basis that affect the operations of their district, building, or organization. Nearly all of these decisions are based on the needs and influence of local stakeholders and constituent groups. Calling a Snow Day: How Local Politics Influence School Decisions is a tool to help ......
Baby Boomers Reflect on Their Legacy to Public Education
Sixty decades of US history have witnessed tremendous and tumultuous societal changes, including educating our children. In response to President John F. Kennedy's call to "ask not, what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country..." Baby Boomers answered. Catalysts for Change: Baby Boomers Reflect on their Legacy to ......
Baby Boomers Reflect on Their Legacy to Public Education
Sixty decades of US history have witnessed tremendous and tumultuous societal changes, including educating our children. In response to President John F. Kennedy's call to "ask not, what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country..." Baby Boomers answered. Catalysts for Change: Baby Boomers Reflect on their Legacy to ......
Uncommon Sense for New Teachers: A Good Beginning is Half the Work is a uniquely written resource for any preservice or new teacher moving into the profession of education. Noted by its author as the book to read, before deciding what other books to read, it offers deft perspective on the pressing issues weighing heavily on the minds and hearts of ......
Uncommon Sense for New Teachers: A Good Beginning is Half the Work is a uniquely written resource for any preservice or new teacher moving into the profession of education. Noted by its author as the book to read, before deciding what other books to read, it offers deft perspective on the pressing issues weighing heavily on the minds and hearts of ......
Burnout, imposter syndrome, changes in higher education, issues of free speech, structural inequality-the challenges facing academics today are daunting and overwhelming. How do we balance all of our responsibilities and goals without becoming exhausted? How do scholars decide if activism is right for them, and if so, what form should it take? ......
A Team Guide to Systems Change in Education, Health Care, and Social Wel
The challenges we face in education, healthcare and social welfare are multi-faceted, reflecting the complex systems we live in. Out of urgency and often the best of intentions, organizations implement new policies, technologies, and other innovations to tackle these issues, and hope for the best. However, addressing these challenges requires ......
Simple Approaches and Understandings to Realize Growth
Schools are the bridge to the future. Their success is vital for the success of communities and the country. There are opportunities and avenues to improvement that are unfortunately overlooked and underutilized. The path to improving schools, districts and education overall is not a singular one, but there are common areas that should be ......
A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisions
Making decisions intelligently, rationally and with a sense of personal investment requires a considerable degree of critical thinking. To choose badly based on disinformation or high emotionality, rather than on the intelligent interpretation of data, leads us down a path from which there is often no safe return. Thomas Jefferson wrote that a ......
A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisions
Making decisions intelligently, rationally and with a sense of personal investment requires a considerable degree of critical thinking. To choose badly based on disinformation or high emotionality, rather than on the intelligent interpretation of data, leads us down a path from which there is often no safe return. Thomas Jefferson wrote that a ......
Simple Approaches and Understandings to Realize Growth
Schools are the bridge to the future. Their success is vital for the success of communities and the country. There are opportunities and avenues to improvement that are unfortunately overlooked and underutilized. The path to improving schools, districts and education overall is not a singular one, but there are common areas that should be ......
Celebrating and Elevating Fun, Fab, and Fierce Females
Leadership is not easily defined because it is rooted in human qualities and characteristics. Education is a people-driven profession, yet there is a beauty of balancing technical leadership with adaptive leadership, which is no easy task. There is no "rule book" to leadership; however, this book is to learn about being "unsupervised" and how new ......
Celebrating and Elevating Fun, Fab, and Fierce Females
Leadership is not easily defined because it is rooted in human qualities and characteristics. Education is a people-driven profession, yet there is a beauty of balancing technical leadership with adaptive leadership, which is no easy task. There is no "rule book" to leadership; however, this book is to learn about being "unsupervised" and how new ......
The transition to mid and top-level educational leadership is often full of unexpected turbulence, confusing conversations, and mind-boggling navigational challenges that can send the best leader into a tailspin. In her book, Against the Wind: Leadership at 36,000 Feet Dr. Donya Ball helps administrators learn to face these challenges with courage ......
The transition to mid and top-level educational leadership is often full of unexpected turbulence, confusing conversations, and mind-boggling navigational challenges that can send the best leader into a tailspin. In her book, Against the Wind: Leadership at 36,000 Feet Dr. Donya Ball helps administrators learn to face these challenges with courage ......
Kids grow up today in a media-saturated environment. Even as they are first discovering who they are and learning about the greater world, they are nudged and swayed by messaging like young trees blown by invisible winds. To help empower children to be resilient and have more self-guidance in their own development, we have written a two-book ......
Kids grow up today in a media-saturated environment. Even as they are first discovering who they are and learning about the greater world, they are nudged and swayed by messaging like young trees blown by invisible winds. To help empower children to be resilient and have more self-guidance in their own development, we have written a two-book ......
In Comfy Shoes and Keychains, Hruby uses the power of storytelling to provide tips and insightful lessons on confidence, self-care, communication, engagement, burnout and more. Each chapter tells the story of a woman in leadership who faces adversity and learns to overcome. The book offers insight to fears and struggles that are relatable to all ......
