Building the Bridge from the Great Resignation to the Multigenerational
If you are a leader at midlife trying to manage your career, your children, and aging parents, all while trying to move through an ever-complicated post-pandemic workplace, this book is for you. The Survival Guide for GenX Leaders is full of inspirational and pragmatic advice that readers can implement tomorrow. Morrison interviews GenX leaders ......
Practical Connections and Uses with Data-Driven Decision-Making
DDDM (Data-driven decision making) and problem-solving within classrooms and schools is integral to action research in order to meet the instructional, behavioral, and social emotional needs of students with diverse learning needs; however, many new educators struggle to understand the link between DDDM and action research. This book extends ......
Practical Connections and Uses with Data-Driven Decision-Making
DDDM (Data-driven decision making) and problem-solving within classrooms and schools is integral to action research in order to meet the instructional, behavioral, and social emotional needs of students with diverse learning needs; however, many new educators struggle to understand the link between DDDM and action research. This book extends ......
Social Citizenship, Education, and Service in the 21st Century
Linking broad-based public service to post-secondary education is the best way to make our society more free. Access to college ought to be a social right of citizenship. The core idea in T.H. Marshall's concept of social citizenship is that, in addition to civil and political rights, people hold social rights, including guarantees to housing, ......
Using Global and Multicultural Children's Literature in Grades K-5
Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion: Using Global and Multicultural Children's Literature in Grades K-5, Second Edition shows educators how to assist students in cultivating and appreciating diversity and inclusion in K-5 classrooms. This text offers new children's book titles from across the world in each chapter, advances to grades four and ......
Using Global and Multicultural Children's Literature in Grades K-5
Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion: Using Global and Multicultural Children's Literature in Grades K-5, Second Edition shows educators how to assist students in cultivating and appreciating diversity and inclusion in K-5 classrooms. This text offers new children's book titles from across the world in each chapter, advances to grades four and ......
This collection focuses on the post-independence educational development in Zimbabwe. It shows how the ZANU PF regime has presided over the demise of education, and covers a wide range of topics such as violence against teachers, poor salaries, student activism, minority languages, and curriculum innovations. The overarching argument of the volume ......
Local Reactions to National Initiatives and State Mandates
This book chronicles the progression of civic education advocacy since the early 2000s. It identifies the main actors that called for civic education reform, describes their motivations and policy platforms, and documents the path taken to capture state policy agendas. It argues that No Child Left Behind incentivized civic education advocates to ......
Evidence-informed summaries for busy educational professionals
Ask any teacher and they would say workload is one of the biggest blockers to their professional development. Simply put, most teachers are time-poor and too busy to engage with educational research to improve their classroom instruction. One-pagers are ultra-concise, A4-sized summaries that share important ideas about good teaching. In this ......
The A - Z of School Improvement is an authoritative 'can-do' guide to all aspects of improving schools, organised around the 26 letters of the English alphabet. School improvement is about getting every detail right. The serious school leader pays attention to every aspect of school life and focuses on improving it and aiming for excellence. One ......
The idea that White people are under attack has permeated political discourse in recent elections. The election of 2024 will be no different. Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life helps White people navigate the myriad messages they encounter about race. The book applies the White racial identity framework developed by ......
A guide to why people from marginalized backgrounds may be uniquely qualified to become effective higher education leaders--and how they can get there. Students and faculty in higher education increasingly reflect more diverse backgrounds, but this diversity remains rare in many leadership roles. In Leading from the Margins, Mary Dana Hinton ......
Ideas and Activities for Working with Anger and Emotional Regulation
Support children to better understand and manage their anger with this practical guide of therapeutic activities. From exploring a child's first steps in therapy to helping parents and carers with their responses, this book provides practical advice for working with children aged 4-12 and families navigating issues of anger and emotional ......
"This work provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary leadership scholarship that examines how leadership is conceptualized within higher education"--
Utilizing the BBARS of Excellence Framework to Foster Student and Educator Success
Youth mental health challenges are on the rise. The educator attrition rate is leaving schools scrambling to fill positions. And everyone is on information overload. As a school counselor, Katie Pagnotta saw these statistics in action and was compelled to create a resource that would synthesize best practices in a way that not only eased the role ......
The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Showcases the role HBCUs play in empowering Black students, fostering economic development, building community, and mentoring leaders and activists. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a pivotal role in promoting social and economic mobility for African Americans and in mentoring the next generation of Black leaders. In ......
Standing Up and Speaking Out Against the Assaults on Democracy, Educator
Our nation is rocked by ideological divisions threatening both the work of educators and the core of our democracy. Individuals and groups are attacking public education and implementing policies antithetical to education in a democratic society. They seek to impose their own beliefs upon students and educational institutions by censoring ......
