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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.Higher Education Leadership by Sharmila Pixy Ferris; Kathleen Waldron
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 1839822325Publication Date: 2021Higher education today is facing profound and unprecedented changes to which leaders must respond effectively. Offering a unique insider view of higher education, Ferris and Waldron skillfully showcase expert leadership, providing a rich and meaningful understanding of higher education leadership from across the nexus of existential, philosophical and practical concernsHigher Education Leadership by Rozana Carducci; Jordan Harper; Adrianna Kezar
Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor ; LB2805 .C2668 2024ISBN: 9781421448787Publication Date: 2024Sharing the new and evolving approaches to higher education leadership that foster liberatory systemic change. Higher Education Leadership offers a groundbreaking exploration of leadership in higher education. Rozana Carducci, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar challenge traditional paradigms and ideologies that hinder progress--advocating instead for liberatory systemic change. The authors highlight new and evolving interdisciplinary leadership approaches for resisting and dismantling oppressive systems, including neoliberalism and white supremacy, within and beyond higher education organizations. This comprehensive textbook synthesizes decades of leadership scholarship and dissects the limitations of hierarchical and individual-centered models prevalent in higher education.Interrupting Class Inequality in Higher Education by Laura M. Harrison; Monica Hatfield Price
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781317210672Publication Date: 2017Interrupting Class Inequality in Higher Education explores why socioeconomic inequality persists in higher education despite widespread knowledge of the problem. Through a critical analysis of the current leadership practices and policy narratives that perpetuate socioeconomic inequality, this book outlines the trends that negatively impact low- and middle-income students and offers effective tools for creating a more equitable future for higher education. By taking a solution-focused approach, this book will help higher education students, leaders, and policy makers move from despair and inertia to hope and action.
Closing the opportunity gap : identity-conscious strategies for retention and student succe by Pendakur, Vijay, editor., Harper, Shaun R., 1975- writer of foreword
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 1003443419Publication Date: 2023"This book offers a novel and proven approach to the retention and success of underrepresented students. It advocates a strategic approach through which an institution sets clear goals and metrics and integrates the identity support work of cultural / diversity centers with skill building through cohort activities to enable students to successfully navigate college, graduate on time and transition to the world of work.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.Improving college student retention : new developments in theory, research, and practice by Reason, Robert Dean, editor., Braxton, John M., editor., Perna, Laura W., writer of foreword.
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781003445258Publication Date: 2023"Overall retention rates have stagnated and differential retention rates by race and ethnicity have persisted. This edited book examines how higher education institutions, researchers, and policy makers can work to improve retention rates by critically examining the current state and future directions of retention research"Using Understanding by Design in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom by Amy J. Heineke; Jay McTighe
Call 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.
Advancing School-University Partnerships and Professional Development Schools Through National Research by Joseph R. Feinberg (Editor); Susan L. Ogletree (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781040110775Publication Date: 2024This book offers a comprehensive guide to the impact of professional development schools and school-university partnerships (PDSs-SUPs), articulating both the major issues that confront PDSs-SUPs and the various research methods shaping the field. Stemming from a national PDS research conference and project funded by the American Educational Research Association, this collaborative effort presents a vision aimed at promoting inclusive, equity-focused research within PDSs-SUPs and delves into the insights of researchers as they examine revitalized perspectives, persistent challenges, and emerging areas of study. This volume will appeal to scholars, teachers, teacher educators, university students, and education policymakers with interest in social justice in research, teacher education, and P-12 partnerships.Exploring Principal Development and Teacher Outcomes by Peter Youngs (Editor); Jihyun Kim (Editor); Madeline Mavrogordato (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781000292572Publication Date: 2021This edited volume examines innovative ways of preparing, supervising, and evaluating principals and explores factors that promote effective leadership practices. Chapter authors consider how principals' leadership practices affect teachers' instruction, satisfaction, commitment, retention, and effectiveness, and present evidence that principals can influence key student outcomes as well.Leadership for Safe Schools by Philip J. Lazarus; Michael L. Sulkowski
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780367204488Publication Date: 2023Leadership for Safe Schools is every school and district leader's guide to developing practical policies and carefully designed action plans to ensure that K-12 students are physically and psychologically safe, secure, and supported. With today's students experiencing soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidality-in addition to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the normalization of school shootings-school personnel desperately need multifaceted approaches that decrease violence, facilitate social connectedness, and promote emotional well-being.Leading in Sync by Jill Harrison Berg
Call 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 Schmoker
Call 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.
Community college leadership : a multidimensional model for leading change by Eddy, Pamela Lynn, author
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781003443506Publication Date: 2023Two-year colleges are facing major change. The majority will undergo a turnover in college presidencies in the next ten years, at a time when they are being asked to be engines for economic growth, enable more students - and a greater diversity of students - to gain 21st century qualifications, and provide a pathway to higher degrees, all with reduced state and local funding. Recognizing that future community college leaders - at all levels- will manage increasingly complex organizations, and face very different challenges than their predecessors, this book provides a multidimensional model of leadership suited to these new demands and environments.Community College Leadership and Management by Carlos Nevarez; J. Luke Wood
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 1419372377Publication Date: 2020"This textbook places emphasis on reframing college practices in order to advance student success. This calls for leaders to be well versed on promising strategies which have illustrated evidence in advancing academic success. Such practices include intrusive academic advising, exit interviews with dropouts and graduates, and the use of technology to supplement face-to-face academic counselor advising.Higher Education Leadership Strategy in the Public Affairs Triumvirate by Jeffrey W. Goltz
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9783030380571Publication Date: 2020This book provides a comprehensive approach for colleges rethinking their community policy connections. From a 'pracademic' perspective, it introduces a new paradigm for contemporary college and community connections through the evolution of research, scholarship and experience, and the application of the Public Affairs discipline from Higher Education Leadership.A Practical Guide to Becoming a Community College President by Edward J. Valeau; Rosalind Latiner Raby
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781003081555Publication Date: 2021This practical resource helps aspiring leaders demystify the challenges associated with becoming a community college president. Building on existing scholarship and research related to historical origins of the community college, this book explores the role and function of the presidency, discusses existing demographics and the importance of meeting the needs of a diverse student population, and unpacks the required competencies and leadership challenges related to becoming a community college president.