EBOOK: Developing Leadership: Creating the Schools of Tomorrow
EBOOK: Developing Leadership: Creating the Schools of Tomorrow

Author: Martin Coles

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2004-11-16

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0335224571

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What is our best present understandingof good school leadership? How do I lead my school to make itrelevant to students of the 21st century? The idea for this book grew out of aninternational conference organized by theNational College for School Leadership,An International Future: learning frombest practice worldwide, which exploredinnovative and significant aspects ofeducational leadership and brought together internationalcolleagues to generate new understandings. The conference proved adynamic forum for debate for researchers, academics, policy-makersand practitioners. It was clear at the conference that there was aconsensus of understanding around certain key themes that crossednational boundaries. In Developing Leadership, well-knowninternational contributors explore this consensus to promote the keythemes which reflect our best present understanding of good schoolleadership, and to inform school leaders about leading edge thinkingwhich bears on their role. These key ideas, which are highlighted at various points throughoutthe book, are built around professional learning communities;distributed leadership; strategic thinking about ICT; sustainability;internship; mentoring and coaching. Contributors: Ray Bolam, Martin Coles, Gary Crow, Clive Dimmock,Dean Fink, David Green, Andy Hargreaves, Sing Kong Lee, BillMulford, Fred Paterson, Tony Richardson, Geoff Southworth, JamesSpillane, Louise Stoll, Ken Stott, Allan Walker, John West-Burnham

A School for Every Child
A School for Every Child

Author: Sandra Harris

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780810841888

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Public and private school choice options are examined in this work for parents and educators. An introductory chapter examines the concept of school choice. Chapters on different kinds of public and private choices describe educational, financial, and organizational elements of magnet schools, charter schools, public alternative schools, independent private schools, Catholic and Christian schools, and homeschools. A final chapter shows what to look for in choosing a school. Harris teaches at Stephen F. Austin State University, and has experience in the public schools as a teacher and administrator. Lowery is professor and director of PK-12 administrator preparation at the University of Texas-Arlington and a former member of the Texas State Board of Education. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Targets for Tomorrow's Schools
Targets for Tomorrow's Schools

Author: Mr Nigel Gann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1135700710

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From September 1998, governing bodies were required to set school targets for development in curriculum, personnel, environment, finance and the community. This book is a comprehensive guide which will be welcomed by governing bodies and staff. It offers an explanation of how we can measure schools, how we can evaluate the performance of the governing body and ways of helping everyone involved in school management and governance to work out how well their school is doing. It serves as a fine companion volume to Nigel Gann's successful first book Improving School Governance.

Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools
Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools

Author: Tony Townsend

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 113478564X

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The restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.

Innovative Trends in Teacher Education for the 21st Century
Innovative Trends in Teacher Education for the 21st Century

Author: Dr. S. Bella Wiselet and L. Vinila

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-04-14

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0359511708

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Education seeks to provide the intellectual enlightenment and the spiritual emancipation in the search for a better existence for all life on earth. Teacher education must target skills for the 21st Century and beyond them to address the needs of a knowledge society. These days teacher's education system is facing problem of inaptness and irrelevance. There is a visible gap between how students live and how they learn. Schools and colleges have struggled to keep the pace with the rate of change in students' lives inside and outside the educational institution.Innovative educational practices support the development of new capabilities and surfacing stumbling blocks on the road to innovation implementation. The implementation of learning that promotes the development of general capabilities and deep learning approaches in students is at the centre of the paradigmatic changes.

Coordination Among Schools, Families, and Communities
Coordination Among Schools, Families, and Communities

Author: James G. Cibulka

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780791428573

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Addresses a relatively new emphasis in the educational reform movement, the attempt to improve linkages between schools, families, and communities in the delivery of support services to children.