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“dr philip smith”

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  • Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances

    Strategies for Success

    by Dr Philip Smith, Professor Les Bell ...
    The leadership of schools can make a significant difference to enhancing the life chances of students in schools and enabling them to succeed. This book examines leadership within schools, focusing on securing success within a challenging social and political environment. It explores the approaches to leadership adopted by four successful secondary school headteachers in a local authority situated ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Good Governance is a Choice

    A Way to Re-create Your Board_the Right Way

    by Randy Quinn, Linda J. Dawson ...
    This book comes with a promise: after reading it, you will never again think of board work the same as before.Good Governance is a Choice is a book about, and for, boards of public and non-profit organizations. Its central focus is on public school boards and the special challenges they face, but the governing model it introduces, Coherent Governance , is applicable to any board of any type ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Primary Curriculum Design Handbook

    Preparing our Children for the 21st Century

    by Dr Brian Male ...
    Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a National Curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need. Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools lack the confidence and approach to design that would enable them to resolve what seems like an impossible ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Strategic Communications for School Leaders

    by Vicki Gunther, James McGowan, Kate Donegan ...
    Gunther, McGowan and Donegan draw on their own experiences and those of others in the field, to explain the importance of communication in school leadership. In focusing on the communication process—why it's critical for schools, and how it can be executed well—they make the case that communication must be a primary emphasis for leaders, not an afterthought.In Strategic Communications for School ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • International Education and Schools

    Moving Beyond the First 40 Years

    Edited by Richard Pearce ...
    Over the last forty years, the estimated number of international schools worldwide has increased from fewer than 300 to 6400 in 2012. This explosion is a response to the needs of a world in which borders are being traversed with ever greater ease and children increasingly need to be prepared for the global opportunities that await them. In this book, international school specialists reflect on ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Wounds that Heal

    Heroism and Human Development

    by Judith A. Schwartz, Richard B. Schwartz ...
    Theories of human development characteristically include a series of stages through which individuals are expected to pass if they are to achieve wholeness and happiness. Whether explicitly or not, such theories privilege "normalcy." Heroes, on the other hand, are commonly wounded individuals whose developmental "disabilities" are ultimately the source of their personal success and heroism. The ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The A-Z of School Improvement

    Principles and Practice

    by David Woods, Tim Brighouse ...
    School improvement is an increasingly complex field with developments in policy, research, practice and language making it difficult to get a complete picture. Leading authors David Woods and Tim Brighouse pull together the approaches, characteristics and technical terms needed for busy school leaders, teachers, governors and parents to quickly get to grips with current approaches and best ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • 8 Qualities of Successful School Leaders

    The Desert Island Challenge

    by Jeremy Sutcliffe ...
    “Imagine you were cast adrift on a desert island with a school full of children in desperate need of a great headteacher. What eight qualities would you take with you to run your desert island school?”In this inspirational book, some of the UK's most successful headteachers answer this question, talking openly about what it takes to effectively manage a school today. In candid and moving accounts ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Successful School Leadership

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Petros Pashiardis, Olof Johansson ...
    Successful School Leadership identifies the characteristics, behaviours and practices of successful and effective school leaders through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of school organizations. Edited by Petros Pashiardis and Olof Johansson, chapters explore the similarities and differences between successful and effective school leaders and across various socioeconomic contexts. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Anatomy of a Professionalization Project

    The Making of the Modern School Business Manager

    by Dr Charlotte Woods ...
    Public services have been a target for reform in Western-style democracies for more than three decades. This volume documents and examines the case of School Business Managers (SBMs) as an example of a growing but scarcely-acknowledged phenomenon: the government-backed creation of new 'professions' within the public sector for groups of support workers not formally recognised as such.The dawn of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Reality of School Leadership

    Coping with the Challenges, Reaping the Rewards

    by Mr Richard Parker ...
    School leadership can be both immensely rewarding and deeply challenging. Headteachers are under intense pressure when dealing with issues that can range from dealing with difficult parents and the aftermath of tragedy or scandal, to the day-to-day challenges of juggling the many different priorities involved in keeping the school, students and staff, moving forward.In their inspirational new book ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The World's Fearlessness Teachings

    A Critical Integral Approach to Fear Management/Education for the 21st Century

    by R. Michael Fisher ...
    The World's Fearlessness Teachings addresses the human fear problem in a truly unique and insightful way, summarizing the teachings on fearlessness from around the world and throughout history. The author then utilizes critical integral theory (a la Wilber) as an approach to categorize the developmental and evolutionary spectrum of fear management systems known thus far. The author has spent ... Read more

    $64.79 USD