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The book uses a meta-analysis and meta-synthesis to identify nine areas where humor significantly improves various aspects of the learning environment.

Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership will consist of 11 brief chapters, each covering a critical question that practitioners need to answer in building the board-superintendent partnership

The Age of Teacher Shortages is a practical look at the reasons for teacher shortages in schools across America, and suggests solutions.

Schooling Alone is a look at the history of public education and the current state of the efforts to privatize our public schools.

This book explores the influence of historical events and intergenerational transmission of trauma on the psychological lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their children. It explores disavowal of loss, homesickness, and anti-Semitic violence, as well as parents' sacrifices and their children's success.

The book urges the principals, closest to teaching and learning to have the courage to take charge. It offers strategies and approaches that will not only enable them to survive but to thrive as well.

From Conflict Resolution to Peacebuilding will introduce the varied ways people address and resolve conflicts at all levels from the interpersonal to the international. It will explore how conflict affects our lives while also showing readers how they can deal with conflict constructively as citizens and, in some cases, in their careers.

Today's successful museum leaders bring myriad skills to the table, creating a style that works both personally and professionally. This snapshot of museum leadership focuses on history and cultural heritage organizations to help readers understand the power of individual leadership and its relationship to organizational strength.

All the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos is contained in this clearly written volume. Reblitz provides the ultimate reference book and instruction manual for both the professional and the amateur, with vital updates since the publication of the second edition.

Imperative Narratives is a guidebook for all educators on how to become a more effective teacher, staff member, or administrator. It covers every aspect of storytelling, including how to choose the stories you tell, various methods and modalities for delivering those stories, and the tricks to becoming a master storyteller.

The major controversial issues facing K-12 education will be identified, discussed in terms of pros and cons, and then discussed in relation to valid empirical and basic research that is available in the literature.

The scope of this book embraces a dynamic discussion of the value of traditional public education in the US compared with the free market of schooling expressed by privatization/choice education.

Creating Calm Classrooms focuses exclusively on how to make any teacher an effective classroom manager and teacher.

Experiencing Teacher Leadership is unique from most other books about teacher leadership because the focus is on the teachers and their experiences, good and bad, as they transition from classroom teacher into a position of leadership in their school.

Traditional public education in the US is under attack. This book details the effects of this assault by the proponents of free market schooling and uses data-based research to fend off the attack.

This is a great resource for teachers and administrators to communicate more effectively.

This book for teachers and parents makes an important case for the need for developing moral behavior in young children. It offers effective tools for teaching children to weigh decisions in the face of potential consequences, examine rationales for their choices, study the effects of their choices on others.

School districts across the country must ask their voters to approve tax increases for additional school funding. While preparing for these elections is a time-consuming and daunting task, this book provides a step-by-step approach that is comprehensive and strategic.

This book illuminates methods for drawing upon young adult literature to facilitate students' social action.

This book provides teachers with the tools to capture teachable opportunities as literacy moments: brief, authentic, joyful encounters with texts in all forms. Here, teachers learn to nurture joyful readers by infusing their classrooms' daily lives with authentic literacy moments every day.

This nationally recognized school finance expert has teamed up with a CHOICE award winning author to write a comprehensive book on managing school financial resources to increase student performance.

This book provides a clear set of best practices for the dissertation or thesis chairperson. Unlike many books on the market today intended for students writing dissertations and theses, this text is for the faculty member guiding and coaching the student through the process.

The book describes why and how public and private schools can procure zero energy sustainable schools using on-site solar energy. The reasons to take this path are that solar schools can be built at conventional costs, will be less costly to operate, and can achieve zero carbon emissions in response to climate change.

Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text in sociology for undergraduate and graduate courses in feminist research methods, sociology research methods, and women in sociology.

This book is the longest-standing and best-selling IR theory text on the market, popular for the authors' clear and readable explanations of the various IR world views. Newer editions identify separate interpretive understandings-positivism, feminism, and those influenced by phenomenology-post-modernism, critical theory, and constructivism.

This book introduces the concept of "reflective discipline" as an approach to address the problem of racial disparity.

This book exposes the truths regarding education and economics so that every individual can understand the negative ramifications of implementing policies and practices based on educational and economic falsehoods.

This book shows how the notion of civil disobedience has evolved.

This book offers the first full account of Continental contributions to the philosophy of language. It includes coverage of a range of key figures including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot and Kristeva and is designed to engage advanced students with a range of literary references and case studies.

Drawing on the voices and experiences of community-based peace leaders around the world, this book envisions a new way of working together as a truly local and global peacebuilding field.