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- Exploring Consensual Leadership in Higher Education by Lynne Gornall; Brychan Thomas (Editor); Lucy Sweetman (Editor); Camilla Erskine (Series edited by); Tanya Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Jon Nixon (Series edited by); Tanya Fitzgerald (Series edited by)Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor LB2341 .E97 2018Publication Date: 2018Exploring Consensual Leadership in Higher Education explores the idea that the nature of academic work is both creative and consensual. Higher education relationships, whether between managers, staff, learners or the public sphere, are at their most effective when rooted in partnership, teamwork, collaboration and collegiality. The term 'consensual' is used because it situates new leadership models as structures based on consent, reflecting tacit traditions in education alongside ideas of leadership in other settings, including emerging industries.
- Change Leadership in Higher Education by Jeffrey L. BullerCall Number: E-bookISBN: 1118762037Publication Date: 2014Change Leadership in Higher Education is a call to action, urging administrators in higher education to get proactive about change.
- From Command to Community by Nicholas V. Longo (Editor); Cynthia M. Gibson (Editor)Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781611680140Publication Date: 2011The essays in this volume address the idea of leadership education through civic engagement. They delineate a new approach to leadership education reflecting important cultural trends driven by technology, globalization, and demographic shifts; look at some of the best leadership education programs nationwide; and offer "next steps" on how to transform higher education more broadly.
- Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education by Michael Fullan; Geoff Scott; FullanCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor: LB2341 .F84 2009ISBN: 0470472049Publication Date: 2009Fullen and Scott show how certain leadership capabilities and change-capable cultures in higher education institutions must mirror each other for the benefit of students and their futures, and for the academy and society. The authors draw on a solid knowledge base of change, which advocates for stimulating and integrating strong moral purpose and equally strong partnerships and relationships inside and outside the academy.
- Using Understanding by Design in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom by Amy J. Heineke; Jay McTigheCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor LB2806.15 .H445 2018Publication Date: 2018Readers will learn the components of the UbD framework; the fundamentals of language and language development; how to use diversity as a valuable resource for instruction by gathering information about students' background knowledge from home, community, and school;how to design units and lessons that integrate language development with content learning in the form of essential knowledge and skills; and how to assess in ways that enable language learners to reveal their academic knowledge.
- Educational Administration and Leadership by David Burgess (Editor); Paul Newton (Editor)Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781138825765Publication Date: 2014This volume provides diverse perspectives and paradigms in educational administration and leadership. Focusing on particular philosophical and theoretical schools of thought, it traces the contemporary history of debates in the field while also exploring emerging, non-traditional schools for insight and potential contributions to educational administration in multi-cultural contexts.
- Rethinking College Student Retention by John M. Braxton; William R. Doyle; Willis A. Jones; Michael K. McLendon; Amy S. Hirschy; Harold V. HartleyCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9780470907702Publication Date: 2013Drawing on studies funded by the Lumina Foundation, the nation's largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans' success in higher education, the authors revise current theories of college student departure, including Tinto's, making the important distinction between residential and commuter colleges and universities, and thereby taking into account the role of the external environment and the characteristics of social communities in student departure and retention.
- Leading in Sync by Jill Harrison BergCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor LB2832.2 .B47 2018ISBN: 9781416626473Publication Date: 2018Teacher leadership holds great promise for improving the quality of teaching and ensuring student success. But for co-performance of leadership among teacher leaders and principals to be effective, they must learn to lead in sync. Leading In Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning provides principals, assistant principals, coaches, department leaders, grade-level and content team leaders, mentors, professional development leaders, and in fact all teachers with the strategies and tools needed to examine their own thinking about what constitutes high-quality teaching so they can work toward a shared vision.
- Leading with Focus by Mike SchmokerCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9781416621362Publication Date: 2016In his 2011 ASCD best-seller Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, author Mike Schmoker described a fresh pproach to K-12 teaching built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum; clear, prioritized lessons; and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy. Now, in Leading with Focus, he shows administrators, principals, and other education leaders how to apply his model to the work of running schools and districts.
- Educational Leadership Relationally by Scott EacottCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9789462099111Publication Date: 2015Educational Leadership Relationally explicitly returns matters of epistemology and ontology to the centre of the discussion. Through a sustained and rigorous engagement with contemporary thought and analysis, Scott Eacott articulates and defends a relational approach to scholarship in educational leadership, management and administration.
- Formative Assessment Leadership by Karen L. Sanzo; Steve Myran; John CaggianoCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9781317670933Publication Date: 2014This exciting new book is for school leaders who are interested in transforming their school and district practices. Discussing issues that impact students, teachers within their classrooms, and the larger school community, Formative Assessment Leadership explores how leaders can implement effective professional development and positive change in their schools. Breaking down formative assessment into manageable, understandable parts, the authors provide: An exploration of what formative data-based decision making looks like Scaffolding that enables school leaders to effectively integrate processes into their own school structure Discussion of potential barriers to success and how to overcome these challenges Practical examples that help ground the formative assessment leadership concepts A range of worksheets and templates to help implement formative assessment leadership in your schools
- Educational Leadership and Hannah Arendt by Helen M. GunterCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9780415820028Publication Date: 2013This significant volume examines the main texts in the Arendt library and explains each of the key ideas and how they can enable critical thinking about knowledge production and practice in educational leadership. The analysis draws upon a range of exemplars and empirical projects from the field of educational leadership, investigating utility issues regarding Arendt's ideas, and engaging with the debates concerning her insights and contribution.
- Educational Innovations Beyond Technology by Allan Yuen; Robert Fox; Nancy LawCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9780387711379Publication Date: 2011The text explores the concept of innovation, and analyse and compare different dimensions of innovation found in the various case studies; the transfer of innovation and the mechanisms of change; on an innovative online case study database on education innovations that has been designed to be used by education practitioners to support organizational leadership, international collaboration and reflective practice in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) eEducation Leadership initiative; on a project aimed to support the establishment of communities of practice for education practitioners facilitated through an extendable online database that can be used to contribute and share case studies of their own ICT-supported pedagogical innovations. It discusses roles of the teacher and the anticipated changes to the education profession at a system level, in the coming decade on the basis of emerging changes observed in the case studies, and leadership issues at the school level.
- The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership by Fenwick W. English (Editor)Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781412980029Publication Date: 2011This fully updated Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership offers an unflinching and comprehensive overview of the full range of both practical and theoretical issues facing educational leadership today.
- American School Superintendent by Theodore J. Kowalski; Noelle M. Ellerson; Robert S. McCord; George J. Peterson; Phillip I. YoungCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor: LB2831.72 .A44 2011ISBN: 9781607099963Publication Date: 2011This must-have study offers a definitive look at the state of school leadership in the United States. It provides a detailed picture of the men and women leading the nation's schools, based on a representative sample of school leaders nationwide. The American Association of School Administrators has conducted an authoritative State of the Superintendency report every decade since 1923.
- District Leadership That Works by Robert J. Marzano; Timothy WatersCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor: LB2817 .M364 2009ISBN: 1935249193Publication Date: 2009Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools.
- The American Community College by Arthur M. Cohen; Florence B. Brawer; Carrie B. KiskerCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9781118449813Publication Date: 2013The sixth edition includes an entirely new chapter focused on community college outcomes and accountability, as well as new sections dealing with the rise of for-profit colleges; vertical expansion, including dual enrollment and community college baccalaureates; cross-sector collaboration; student characteristics and enrollment patterns; the implications of part-time faculty; leadership and administrative challenges; revenue generation and state allocation patterns, including performance-based funding; distance learning; statewide efforts to improve transfer and articulation; and, finally, a response to contemporary criticisms of the institution.
- Leadership Theory and the Community College by Carlos Nevarez; J. Luke Wood; Rose Penrose; Eduardo J. Padrón (Foreword by)Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781579226312Publication Date: 2013This book presents leaders and aspiring leaders in community colleges with a theoretical and practical framework for analyzing their leadership styles, and determining the dimensions of leadership they need to improve in order to strengthen their capacity to resolve complex issues and effectively guide their institutions.
- Budget and Finance in the American Community College by Trudy H. Bers; Ronald B. Head; James C. Palmer; Community Colleges StaffCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9781119041566Publication Date: 2015Take an in depth look at the current key issues and practices in budgets and finance for community colleges. In this volume, topics include: the contemporary challenge of meeting growing demands for increased student persistence and success, diminishing state support for higher education, new calls for accountability and ways to measure institutional effectiveness, the increasing reliance of many community colleges on grants and other sources of revenue, and college policies that have significant financial ramifications.
- Community College Leadership by Pamela L. Eddy; George R. Boggs (Foreword by)Call Number: This is an E-book. Also available JPL 3rd floor LB2341 .E33 2010ISBN: 9781579224165Publication Date: 2010"This is an excellent resource for all aspiring community college leaders as well as those serving as senior leaders in our institutions. The book is well written and contains an exceptional combination of theory to practice ideas and thoughts. It is sure to become required reading in community college leadership development programs."~ Larry H. Ebbers, Community College Leadership Programs, Iowa State University