Reclaiming the Principalship
Reclaiming the Principalship

Author: Tom Marshall

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780325092515

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As a principal, your days are filled with decisions. How do you keep student learning central to your work and the school's mission while managing all of the mandates and administrative work? With Reclaiming the Principalship as your road map, you will discover how to let learning guide the many decisions you make each day. Experienced administrator Tom Marshall shows you that, by establishing a learning mindset, you can rekindle the spirit of learning in your school and create an environment in which learning is simply a way of life for students, teachers, and even yourself. An environment of engaged learning, not simply compliance. In Reclaiming the Principalship, Tom targets some of the biggest current issues principals face, including scheduling, teacher evaluations, isolation, improving academic achievement, and school climate. He includes questions, checklists, templates, and examples to help you: build a professional network with other principals take on the role of instructional leader evaluate teachers honestly, constructively, and supportively build and lead the school community connect with and nurture your own learning life. Schools need leaders who have just as much love for teaching and learning as they had when they started their careers. You don't have to give up your commitment to learning, or students, or your dedication to teachers. With Tom's guidance, you can make decisions that will have a long-lasting, positive effect on the lives of the students and teachers in your school.

The Literacy Leadership Guide for Elementary Principals
The Literacy Leadership Guide for Elementary Principals

Author: Tynisha D. Meidl

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-10-31

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 147584090X

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For the past decade in the United States, elementary principals have faced increased scrutiny. Student performance regardless of student experiences, district funding practices, or societal factors have been the responsibility of the principal. In a similar fashion, teachers have been ridiculed and scorned. As a result, principals are left trying to create positive school culture, evaluate teacher performance, and guide and support professional development initiatives. In the meantime, teachers in many ways do not see themselves as professionals, do not feel that they have autonomy in their classrooms, and as a result may not have the same joy that they once had. The goal of this guide is to assist principals and school leaders to cultivate a school culture where the principal is positioned as the literacy leader. This guide will support principals to address, define, and create a literacy culture. Most importantly, provide insight to support principals in their quest to becoming primary individual responsible for bringing joy to teaching and learning as part of building school culture.

When God Calls You to The Principal's Office
When God Calls You to The Principal's Office

Author: Lanier T Northrup

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781644163016

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Jerry's Story is one man's journey through the trials and errors of his educational career, his marriage, and life. With each blunder and boneheaded mistake he makes, Jerry witnesses firsthand the undeserving mercy and grace handed down from God. Each and every time Jerry's pride digs a hole too big to climb out, the Lord pulls him up and reveals a new lesson. As God patiently convicts Jerry's heart, Jerry learns the true meaning of discipline, leadership, and God's desired treatment of His children. However, it took a mistake that almost claimed Jerry's life that eventually led him to realizing how "God works all things together for good for the ones who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose." The most valuable lesson learned is how we can begin reclaiming our schools for God one heart at a time. It begins with taking a good hard look at our own motives and intentions and then purposefully and meticulously building a foundation under our classrooms and schools that will withstand and outlast the winds, rains, and storms.

Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom
Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom

Author: Alene H. Harris

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2021-03-03

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1071830759

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Effective classroom management is the key to truly inclusive education Teachers who excel at classroom management have students who are more engaged, less disruptive, and more likely to achieve academically. What can you do to confront behavior challenges, both in-person and virtually, and set your classroom on a positive course? Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom guides new and veteran teachers alike in developing effective classroom management techniques, with a particular focus on students with emotional or behavioral disorders. Addressing six interrelated topics—student perceptions of you as teacher, room arrangement, classroom expectations, consequences to encourage appropriate behavior, student lesson engagement, and classroom community—this step-by-step guide empowers teachers to create a positive and effective learning environment that is grounded in the student-teacher relationship. Each chapter includes: • Vignettes inspired by real classrooms and students • Ideas and techniques for successfully addressing common problems • A "What Research Tells Us" feature that relates current research findings to the effective management of inclusive classrooms • Self-assessment inventories linked to each topic, plus more than 50 activities to guide teachers in applying key concepts and strategies in their own classroom Now is the time to alter the course of your classroom! Effective, relationship-based behavior management keeps students on track and makes your classroom a better place to teach and to learn.

Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma
Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma

Author: C. Mears

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2013-02-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137268549

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Teachers in schools where students have experienced trauma face particularly difficult challenges, for how is a teacher to promote academic growth and attainment of educational goals in such a situation? Provides advice, understanding, and proven strategies for meeting the challenges that must be faced after a traumatic experience.

Reclaiming Our Calling
Reclaiming Our Calling

Author: Brad Gustafson

Publisher: Impress, LP

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781948334044

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This genre-busting book captures the heart, mind, and hope of education like no other. Through a series of interwoven stories, award-winning educator and principal Brad Gustafson reminds us of what we've known all along: Children are more than numbers, and we are called to teach and reach them accordingly.

Reclaiming Higher Education's Purpose in Leadership Development
Reclaiming Higher Education's Purpose in Leadership Development

Author: Kathy L. Guthrie

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1119279755

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Gain a greater understanding of leadership-learning programs across disciplines, pedagogies, and departments. This volume focuses on the collective and unique capacity in higher education to leverage and align university resources with leadership learning across college and university initiatives. why we should focus on reclaiming the purpose of higher education and embrace leadership development across disciplines, how we can do this and what this may look like, and how we can assess this has happened. This is the 174th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education. Addressed to presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, it provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.

Renegade Leadership
Renegade Leadership

Author: Brad R. Gustafson

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2016-08-08

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1506334229

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Get ready to be a renegade with this how-to leadership guide. We’re all looking for the next best app and what’s just beyond the tech horizon. But why don’t we have the same progressive appetite for pedagogy that we have for technology? Renegade leadership may just be the answer we’ve been searching for. Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership demands a call to action in the digital age by creating student-centered instructional leadership that connects equity, culture, and technology. After reading this book, you will learn how to: Apply transformational tenets of connected pedagogy to your work Increase your leadership capacity in curriculum, instruction, cultural proficiency, and school improvement Lead staff meetings, plan personalized professional development, and improve student learning through more responsive teaching practices Using the latest research, vignettes from educational leaders, and profiles of inspiring renegades, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age. The only real question is...are you ready to become a renegade? "Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education. Why can’t schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?" George Couros, Innovative teaching, learning, and leadership consultant and Author of The Innovator’s Mindset; Alberta, Canada "Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined." Jon Corippo, Director of Academic Innovation, CUE "Renegade Leadership demonstrates what student-centered schools look like in the digital age. When we get relationships and pedagogy right, we can transform the very nature of learning. This is a book our students desperately need us all to read." Erin Klein, Scholastic Top Teacher and Michigan Teacher of the Year

Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership
Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership

Author: Steven Jay Gross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1135037795

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A democratic, ethical leader integrates democracy, social justice, and school reform through dialogue and is guided by a sense of responsibility to students, families, and the community. Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership presents a cohesive framework for aspiring and practicing leaders to explore the complex nature of leadership that can support democratic citizenry and social responsibility. Organized around the 5 "New DEEL" visions for leadership, chapters illustrate real people who embody these principles. This compelling vision for educational leadership, combined with diverse and vibrant examples of leadership in action, will serve as a critical guide for the rising generation of democratic ethical educational leaders in the US and abroad. Presenting contextualized, practical instances of this approach to leadership, this book will inspire educational leaders to reflect upon their practice and reach their potential as democratic leaders. Special Features Include: A unique framework to guide responsible, ethical leadership in today’s schools. A series of case studies help readers identify key leadership qualities in context from which to illuminate their own emerging practice. End-of-chapter questions encourage exploration of leaders’ motivations, processes, strategies, and lessons learned.