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Find case stories from up-to-date research, reflection activities, structured research and interview activities for developing collaboration skills.

This how-to guide includes all the necessary information and materials for implementing family nights that increase parental involvement and improve academic achievement.

Provides school leaders with a step-by-step process for planning, setting ground rules, considering traditional meeting alternatives, making good decisions, and developing action plans.

Develop a successful communication strategy that reaches all members of the school community so that everything else has a chance to work as planned.

Offers an examination of historical trends that have helped shape schools and education in the United States. This book places an emphasis on contemporary history, most notably post-WWII issues such as the role of technology, the standards movement, affirmative action, bilingual education, undocumented immigrants, school choice, and more.

This review of existing teacher compensation models provides school administrators with a research-based approach for developing a compensation system that attracts and retains high-quality teachers.

This practical and timely text coaches school principals on how to achieve effective supervision that centralizes student learning and encourages teachers' uniquely effective instructional styles.

Based on IRA and NCTE standards, these classroom-tested reading activities will benefit all students in Grades 6-12, including gifted, special education, and ELL students.

This step-by-step guide provides educators with the tools they need to help students think more critically and write with more fully developed ideas.

Suitable for those who wish to understand and review the importance of gender within their research studies. This book outlines the practical and philosophical issues of gender in qualitative research. It features examples taken from women and men's studies as well as from feminist and other gender studies.

Confronts the post-positivist theories of strategic choice and politics, and reasserts the validity of positivist and functional organization theory. This volume demonstrates the serious flaws, at both theoretical and empirical levels, in the political and strategic choice accounts of organization.

Argues that the sex/gender distinction is invalid and must be transcended. This book attempts to comprehensively reorientate the field and redefine the terrain. To this end, the work of Foucault, Connell, Goffman, Garfinkel, Butler, Freud, Derrida, Saussure, Lacquer and Kessler and McKenna is woven into a set of arguments.

This groundbreaking text demonstrates how to build collaborative environments that both help schools achieve national standards, and also help the school community realize high academic standards.

This practical guide explains how to form productive groups and assess individual student performance in group work.

Blaydes provides teachers with nuggets of wit and wisdom in the form of quotes that will motivate and inspire every educator!

Discover the excellent writing your students can produce when provided with a rubric and challenged to do their best.

One in ten persons living in the United States was born in another country, and in many areas this percentage is much higher. This title provides information about views of disability in other cultures and ways in which rehabilitation professionals may improve services for persons from other cultures.

This book presents an overview of the economic, political and social forces that shaped contemporary employment relations practices in the United States.

This book provides one of the clearest treatments of correlations and regression of any statistics book I have seen... Bobko has achieved his objective of making the topics of correlation and regression accessible to students... For someone looking for a very clearly written treatment of app

Beautifully written text that discusses key issues surrounding developmental psychology in the early years

This book doesn't just provides the "how to" for conducting action research but also covers the origins of it and the role of it in society

Written for school leaders, this completely revised edition outlines detailed, researched-based strategies for developing high-performing schools and fostering educational equity for all students.

Extending upon the work presented in her first multi-award-winning book, Communicating in the Clinic, in this book Ellingson teaches others how to use crystallization, providing practical guidance for researchers' and students' implementation, thereby de-mystifying the process.

The first-ever thorough exploration and discussion of the rhetorical model of social invention [RSI] (initially conceived by rhetorical theorist William R. Brown) for today's students and scholars.

Provides a user-friendly, practical discussion of (a) what the procedure is and why it is used, (b) the assumptions underlying the procedure, (c) what to look for when interpreting output, and (d) how to write the results of the analysis in correct APA style.

Provides headteachers and teachers with ethical leadership tools.

With stimulating contributions from Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, Ivor Goodson, and other educational leaders in the field, this book combines research, practice, and innovative thinking in a powerful reference for busy administrators.

By illustrating to practitioners and trainees the practical application of online counselling skills this book will assist in establishing and maintaining effective online relationships with clients and service users

Second editon of this international bestseller. Unique in that it deals with both communication theory as well as its practical application in planned communication.