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  • Every Child, Every Classroom, Every Day

    School Leaders Who Are Making Equity a Reality

    by Robert Peterkin, Deborah Jewell-Sherman, Laura Kelley, Leslie Boozer ...
    Urban school superintendents face unprecedented challenges. They must ensure that all students achieve a high level of performance despite a lack of resources, the intractable problems of race and poverty, a chaotic governance structure, and the often conflicting demands of teachers, parents, unions, and the community. This important book, edited by the co-directors of the prestigious Harvard ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

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    The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

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  • Give Smart

    Philanthropy that Gets Results

    by Joel L. Fleishman, Thomas J Tierney ...
    A decade ago, Thomas J. Tierney left Bain & Company to cofound The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to develop and execute strategies to accelerate social change. In Give Smart, Tierney pools his hands-on knowledge with Duke professor Joel L. Fleishman's expertise to create a much-needed primer for philanthropists and the nonprofit organizations they ... Read more

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  • Forces for Good

    The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

    by Leslie R. Crutchfield, Heather McLeod Grant ...
    Series Book 403 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Series
    An updated edition of a groundbreaking book on best practices for nonprofitsWhat makes great nonprofits great? In the original book, authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant employed a rigorous research methodology derived from for-profit books like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact—from Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundation—and ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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  • Engine of Impact

    Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector

    by William F. Meehan III, Kim Starkey Jonker ...
    We are entering a new era—an era of impact. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect.As Good to Great author Jim ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Responsive City

    Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance

    by Stephen Goldsmith, Susan Crawford ...
    Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in AmericaThe Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Do More Than Give

    The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World

    by Leslie R. Crutchfield, John V. Kania, Mark R. Kramer ...
    Series Book 390 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Series
    How donors change the world through the six catalytic practices of high-impact philanthropyDo More Than Give provides a blueprint for individuals, philanthropists, and foundation leaders to increase their impact. Based on Forces for Good, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how the six practices of high-impact nonprofits apply to donors aiming to advance social causes. Rather than focus on the ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Excellent Educators: A Wise Giver's Guide to Cultivating Great Teachers and Principals

    by Laura Vanderkam ...
    The strongest influence on whether a student learns (and how much) is the teacher. Never mind fancy facilities, new technology, top curricula, or more school spending—research shows that the intelligence, skill, and dedication of the instructor is two to three times as important as any other contribution to student outcomes. If we want to improve schools, we must raise the quality of teachers.Yet ... Read more

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  • Working for Kids

    Educational Leadership as Inquiry and Invention

    by James H. Lytle ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough attention to how one provides performance-driven leadership in the context of day-to-day practice.As an administrator, academic, consultant and ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Negotiation

    Communication for Diverse Settings

    by Michael L. Spangle, Myra Warren Isenhart ...
    Negotiation is not formulaic. How we negotiate is determined largely by the context in which the negotiation process takes place. Negotiation: Communication for Diverse Settings provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the negotiation process as it applies to a wide variety of contexts. Skillfully weaving practitioner interviews and real world examples throughout the book, Michael ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Effective Public Manager

    Achieving Success in Government Organizations

    by Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, Tanya Heikkila ...
    The Effective Public ManagerThoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of The Effective Public Manager offers public administrators and students a classic resource and a highly-accessible guide to the fundamentals of leading and managing public organizations. In this new edition the authors cover the key areas of the field and present in-depth analysis through the strategic use of fresh ... Read more

    $70.00 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