Janice L. Herman - Böcker

This is a book about change, leaders and a wide variety of practical planning tools designed to assist educational leaders in their responsibility to develop and maintain successful schools. It is designed to be used as a day-to-day reference book for those who are responsible for the direct change that improves the operations and output of their schools. The aim of this book is to help leaders become more knowledgeable and proactive, thus ensuring that all the changes will move in positive directions towards effective schools.

A convenient source of information about child abuse reporting requirements for all 50 states.

Real-life strategies help you organize and facilitate meetings that work. Improve morale, boost problem-solving skills, and effect positive change.

Apply the principles of a "high-performance organization" to your school. Provides an exciting look at what school reform can and should look like.

Action research is a reflective tool for examining current and future practices in a systematic way. This book assists teachers and administrators in adopting action research as a strategy to explore the causes of problems in schools, and thereby take a more active role in determining the best solutions. The author explains how to implement a strategy, providing numerous illustrations at both the classroom and school system level.

This concise guidebook brings together all the basics you need to know about the multiage classroom. Daniel and Terry discuss the importance of developmentally appropriate practice and examine the roles and responsibilities of teachers with regard to curriculum planning, instructional delivery systems, classroom organization, classroom management, student self-directed learning, and peer tutoring. The authors explain how the role of principal is critical to the success of your multiage classrooms. You'll also learn how to arrange the physical environment of your classrooms to provide the most effective environment for learning. In a section of real-life interviews, teachers, principals, parents, and community members share their perceptions and concerns about multiage classrooms.

A useful road map to help implement the quality concept in the educational environment...The authors do an excellent job of unifying the concepts of TQM, effective schools, OBE, and shared decision making.

Considering the crucial role of funding in education today, it is imperative that educators understand the budgeting process thoroughly. By presenting an overview of the basics of financial matters that affect school districts and individual school buildings, this highly practical book spells out the methodology, individual roles, and rationale for site-based budgeting and describes the relationship between central and site levels. It discusses income, expenditures, and accounting responsibilities, and emphasizes the opportunity and obligations of the administration, faculty, staff, school site councils, and central district officials related to the total budgeting, expenditure, and control processes.