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“ted purinton”

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  • American Universities Abroad

    The Leadership of Independent Transnational Higher Education Institutions

    Edited by Ted Purinton, Jennifer Skaggs ...
    Across the globe, American-style and liberal arts universities are being established. From the first, the American University of Beirut, established in 1866, to the liberal arts institutions being established in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and elsewhere in the twenty-first century, there is a clear sense of the global desire for the American approach to higher education as a way of counteracting ... Read more

    $42.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowledge Mobility is the New Internationalization

    Guiding Educational Globalization One Educator at a Time

    by Jennifer Skaggs, Mohammed W. Rizkallah, Alia A. Ammar, Ted Purinton ...
    Knowledge Mobility is the New Internationalization: Guiding Educational Globalization One Educator at a Time shows how university-based faculties of education in both developed and developing countries can work together toward professional standards that are based on globally recognized evidence and applied in culturally appropriate, and thus sustainable, ways throughout the world. The last half ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Social Networks in Schools

    by Ted Purinton, Terrence E. Deal, Daria Cook Waetjen ...
    "It is refreshing to see a volume dedicated first and foremost to understanding and building human relationships in schools. By developing strong networks, schools can foster open systems committed to distributive leadership and exemplary academic outcomes."—Sharon Conley, ProfessorUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraDiscover how to navigate your school′s social networks to maximize ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Creating Engagement between Schools and their Communities

    Lessons from Educational Leaders

    by Neil Naftzger, Chris Brown, Francisco Borras, Martin Blank, Karen Glinert Carlson, Carlos Azcoitia, Adeline Ray, Judith Dymond, Doris Terry Williams, Ted Purinton0, Mary A. Ronan2 ...
    Creating Engagement between Schools and their Communities: Lessons from Educational Leaders addresses how educational leaders have made efforts to reconnect their schools to their communities and the varied goals they achieved. The contributors of this book are educational leaders who have stayed committed to their neighborhoods and who have seen the moral imperative to provide equal opportunity ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Six Degrees of School Improvement

    Empowering a New Profession of Teaching

    by Ted Purinton ...
    Amidst the contentious debates about teacher effectiveness, most people believe that unions, education colleges, charter networks, consulting agencies, textbook publishers, test producers, professional associations, teachers, and researchers disagree with one another about the most essential school reforms. Though all these groups do certainly have their own interests and perspectives, they also ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

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  • Motion Leadership

    The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy

    Edited by Michael Fullan ...
    Cycling from practice to theory and back again, this concise book provides the skinny on motion leadership, or how to “move” individuals, institutions, and whole systems forward. ... Read more

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  • District Leadership That Works

    Striking the Right Balance

    by Robert J. Marzano, Timothy Waters ...
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    $28.79 USD

  • The Little Soldier

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    by Chyngyz Aitmatov ...
    The great Kyrgyz writer tells the story of a five-year-old boy who sees his father falling in the movie. The naive pride of the little boy and his longing for the father he has never known are entangled with the tragedy and absurdity of war. In spite of the accurate descriptions of explosions and falling soldiers, Aitmatov describes in his beautiful, poetical language the mentality and the ... Read more

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  • Leadership Development for Educators

    by Herb Rubenstein, F. Mike Miles, Laurie J. Bassi ...
    Teachers face enormous challenges with standardized testing, the customization of education for each student to reach his or her potential, behavioral challenges, changes in demographics of students, micromanagement from school administrators, and difficulties in working with parents and the community at large, to name a few. These challenges cannot be met through solely learning more about ... Read more

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  • Lead Like a PIRATE

    Make School Amazing for Your Students and Staff

    by Shelley Burgess, Beth Houf ...
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  • Rethinking Madrasah Education in a Globalised World

    Edited by Mukhlis Abu Bakar ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
    Why is there a need to rethink madrasah education? What is the positioning of Muslims in contemporary society, and how are they prepared? What is the role of the ulama in the reform process? This book explores these questions from the perspective of madrasah education and analyses curricular and pedagogic innovations in Islamic faith-based education in response to the changing place of Islam in a ... Read more

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