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“heidi a ross”

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  • Taking Teaching Seriously

    How Liberal Arts Colleges Prepare Teachers to Meet Today's Educational Challenges in Schools

    by Christopher Bjork, D. Kay Johnston, Heidi A. Ross ...
    Taking Teaching Seriously expands and enriches discussions about teacher preparation in the United States. Its authors describe the unique contexts for teacher preparation offered by liberal arts institutions and analyze the effects of these programs on their graduates and on K12 schools. They emphasize that the goals and conditions for teacher preparation differ from larger public institutions in ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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    by Margaret Grogan, Charol Shakeshaft ...
    Series Book 10 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices.Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that characterize women's approaches to leadership differ ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Transformative Learning in Practice

    Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

    Edited by Jack Mezirow, Edward W. Taylor ...
    The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How ... Read more

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  • Everyday Teacher Leadership

    Taking Action Where You Are

    by Michelle Collay ...
    Series Book 14 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    The essential guidelines for leading effective change in your schoolFrom an education expert comes a much-needed resource that gives teacher leaders the strategies and tools they need to improve their practice and assume new leadership roles in their schools. The author outlines the everyday acts of teacher leadership and shows how to lead effectively through collaboration. The book also contains ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories

    by Matthew Lynch ...
    Educational administrators know that leadership requires hundreds of judgments each day that require a sensitivity and understanding of various leadership strategies. Bridging the gap between the academic and practical world, A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories provides an exploration of ten dominant leadership strategies to give school leaders a solid basis in theory and practical ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Advancing Youth Work

    Current Trends, Critical Questions

    Edited by Dana Fusco ...
    This path-breaking book brings together an international list of contributors to collectively articulate a vision for the field of youth work, sharing what they have learned from decades of experience in the training and education of youth workers. Carefully designed evaluation and research studies have legitimized the learning potential of youth programs and non-school organizations over the last ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Participatory Practices in Adult Education

    Edited by Pat Campbell, Barbara Burnaby ...
    Although there has been a great deal of rhetoric about learner empowerment in educational and community development circles, this book is the first to offer detailed examples of successful participatory practices in adult education spanning a wide range of program settings, such as schools, institutions, communities, and the workplace. The editors join with practitioner colleagues in the United ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Professional Issues in Child and Youth Care Practice

    by Kiaras Gharabaghi ...
    This book provides an overview of the core professional issues in the field of child and youth care practice. The author explores themes ranging from relationships and the exploration of Self to career building and field-specific approaches to management. The book is written from a pragmatic perspective, and serves both to advance current thinking in the field about professional issues as well as ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education

    Liberal Learning for the Profession

    by Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, William M. Sullivan, Jonathan R. Dolle ...
    Series Book 20 - Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public good.The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's national study of undergraduate ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Decision Making in Educational Leadership

    Principles, Policies, and Practices

    Edited by Stephanie Chitpin, Colin W. Evers ...
    The increased focus on raising standards in education requires leaders to engage in complex decision making about teacher assessment, mandated accountability measures, and the collection and use of large amounts of data. Showcasing exemplary practices of school and district administrators, Decision Making in Educational Leadership covers issues concerning the role of emotion, ethical and legal ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Leadership

    What's In It For Schools?

    by Tom Sergiovanni ...
    Series series What's in it for schools?
    The What's in it for Schools series has been written by experts in the field for an audience of busy practitioners. The books present research and thinking about topical education issues and present it in an accessible and relevant way. What makes a good leader? Does good leadership matter in helping schools be more successful? This concise and accessible book examines leadership in a practical ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Profound Improvement

    Building Capacity for a Learning Community

    by Coral Mitchell, Larry Sackney ...
    Series series Contexts of Learning
    The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development.As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators deconstruct and reconstruct their professional narratives to enhance student learning and professional ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD