School Leadership

In Leading in Chaos, Dr. Jim Largent draws from his 21 years as a superintendent to offer guidance on issues faced by education leaders today. His approach includes a blueprint for obtaining your desired job—with a focus on leadership roles in public education—and the transition steps needed to set yourself up for success. Leading in Chaos presents concepts and anecdotes to show you how to work with a variety of people from bus drivers to board members to irate parents.

Kaizen, skills, integration: three words that 20 years ago didn't mean anything, today they mean a lot. Our economy and society rotate around these concepts. Which role do they play in our life? Furthermore, we all know that the globalization is making our system changing so fast that we literally have to run! And who wins the marathon at the end? The business with the best players. The most motivated, the most skilled-matching team.

El mundo se aceleró y se volvió incierto, complejo y volátil. Y fue este mundo disruptivo el que me reveló la fragilidad de las escuelas de negocios. Yo fui víctima de las incapacidades de esas escuelas. Después de haberme graduado de dos carreras, e incluso estar en proceso de estudiar un par de maestrías, no lograba que mi negocio despegara. Estuve metido en un "negocio pendejo" - como suelo llamarlo -, hasta que encontré la salida. Me tomó diez años desaprender fórmulas equivocadas de la vieja escuela.

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A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts - no MBA required. The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses. In today's business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious listening that would put even a CEO to sleep. From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, Negotiating 101 is an easy-to-understand road map of today's complex business world.

What's better than a good story? A story with a message! Being an educator is hard work, and it's easy to doubt whether we're making a difference in the lives of our students. In Stories of EduInfluence, veteran educator Brent Coley shares stories from more than two decades in the classroom and front office, stories illustrating the life-changing power we possess.

Every effective district leader wants to create the conditions for every employee to understand the system vision and know how to align their work to the district goals, so that every student is actively engaged and develops the knowledge, skills, and processes to become effective independent learners, who can solve problems and apply learning in novel situations.

In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals. In the Deep South and northern border states over the decades following Brown, Black schools were illegally closed and Black educators were displaced en masse. By engaging with the complicated legacy of the Brown decision, Leslie T. Fenwick illuminates a crucial chapter in education history.

Standards are the foundation of our educational systems today. Fairness, rigor, and high achievement for all students are the focus of standards-based schools. Yet the standards movement means nothing if it does not improve student achievement in the classroom. In this revised edition, Dr. Reeves provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement standards-based performance assessment to make improved teaching and learning a reality in the classroom.

Turning a passion for martial arts into a successful business has never been easier! How to Start a Martial Arts School outlines the basics of making your love for the martial arts into something that can be both fun and profitable. From marketing to thinking about how to pay yourself, this audiobook discusses aspects of owning a martial arts business that you need to know about if you're planning to start your own school.

This audio reference book provides clear answers to commonly asked questions about the most pressing issues in education today. Standards and standardized tests, writing and student achievement, accountability systems, interventions for under-performing students, standards and the arts, motivation, leadership issues, plus many more topics are addressed in this handbook for educators.

Everything You Know About Organizational Behavior You Learned in High School brings you on a nostalgic journey to a pleasant, albeit sometimes volatile, period in your life. It is during this time in high school the foundation for your personality and adult behavior patterns are established. These adolescent behavior patterns remain in adulthood and find their way into the workplace. Becker teaches you to recognize the dysfunction that is caused and captures simple tips to improve your team’s and company’s results.

Based on popularity, sales, and global impact, these classic business and success books have been chosen as the best of breed. If you are a CEO, MBA, or run a business, you should have read or been exposed to these self-help and prosperity books. Any of these authors and their self-help books can seriously boost your mindset and consciousness of success, power, and happiness.

The demands of principalship can be overwhelming. Integrating culturally responsive teaching and learning methods into everyday instruction can feel like an impossible feat, but it is not. All you need is the right guidance. If you want to master culturally responsive leadership, create an inclusive school environment, and improve academic outcomes in diverse educational settings, then you need to read this book!

Despite ongoing professional development for urban educators, many inner-city school students are still not performing on high levels or even grade level. This book is a practical guide to helping educators understand the innate difficulties of transferring expertise from the experts, through the teachers, and into the students in a meaningful way that demonstrates student learning.

There’s hardly anything more exciting than getting that first teaching job. You get to create lesson plans for your own students, see your ideas for classroom decor come to fruition, implement the classroom management system you’ve always wanted to use. The list of decisions and ideas goes on and on. What fun!

As educators, we have learned the research on brain science, we have seen that addressing only the academic needs of students isn't enough, and we have attended all the [virtual] conferences on why we need to consider more than simply a child's IQ or test scores when supporting them. But what do we do now? The Whole Child School answers that question. Providing practical strategies for younger and older students, Job Iles takes us from ambiguity to application.

Homegrown CEO: A Mother's Blueprint to Cultivating Leadership in Your Child is a personal and inspiring account of one mother's journey in raising a child who grew up to become a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The author, Neha M., shares valuable insights, lessons, and strategies from her unique experience, offering a comprehensive guide for parents looking to nurture leadership qualities in their children. This book is not about molding your child into a CEO. It's about recognizing the inherent leadership potential in them and providing the right environment, tools, and values.

50 Things to Know About Being a Middle School English Teacher by author Dwayne Vega offers an approach to adjusting your English classroom. Most books on language arts instruction tell you to adopt theoretical and unproven suggestions. In this book, you'll discover how to get your students or children to view writing more positively. This book will help you understand what is going on with middle school students and help you craft lessons to address those changes.

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