Creating Safe Schools for All Students draws on the latest research, law, and expert judgment to offer educators a comprehensive program for designing safe schools. This book addresses several theoretical perspectives through which readers can come to understand school safety. It also provides a set of standards that educators can use to evaluate their schools and then develop practical and systematic plans for ensuring orderly and caring learning environments. Attention is given to the distinction between preventing violence and promoting safety. For educators or educational administrators.

Creating Safe Schools for All Children

Education & Teaching

Duke, Daniel L.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

Drawing on a five-phase model of the change process, this book uses real world examples to examine the discovery, design, development, implementation, and sustaining of educational innovations and improvements. 
 Class-tested and field-tested, The Challenges of Educational Change provides the most comprehensive and recent examination of research and practice related to educational change. This book is designed for challenge and reform courses in schools of education as well as policy and organizational behavior courses. It addresses the main challenges of change—how to lead, evaluate, and explain educational change. In order to effect change, people need to understand how it occurs and what is most and least likely to occur. By learning how to evaluate change, students will gain valuable skills in addition to learning how that change is created.

The Challenges of Educational Change

Allyn&Bacon

Despite the rising interest in school districts, there are relatively few comprehensive resources available for graduate students in educational leadership programs. The Challenges of School District Leadership takes the position that the best way to prepare the next generation of school district leaders is to make certain that they are prepared to address the unending challenges that characterize public education today. Drawing on the latest research as well as actual examples, the book spotlights ten of the perennial challenges facing superintendents and school boards. Among the challenges discussed in detail are balancing equity and excellence, accommodating demographic change, coping with the increasing politicization of district leadership, deciding how to organize (or reorganize) a school system, and meeting the demands of educational accountability. This text is appropriate for graduate students in educational leadership, education policy, and the politics of education as well as school district leaders.

The Challenges of School District Leadership

Routledge

The School That Refused to Die: Continuity and Change at Thomas Jefferson High School (S U N Y SERIES, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP)

This is a fascinating, and disturbing, story of an urban high school's struggle to survive in the post-integration era of educational reform. "Daniel Duke describes the rich history of Thomas Jefferson (Tee-Jay) High School in Richmond, VA with great attention to detail and passion. It is easy to visualize the teachers Duke describes, the manner in which the school is conducted, and the challenges it faces. Duke tells a very personal story and relates it to the larger picture of what is happening in education generally, and in urban education, specifically. He captures an accurate picture of what is happening in metropolitan areas and places it within a historical context. Facility decay, loss of academic focus, and the challenges of racial integration loom large. He helps us understand the challenges of most urban areas, but in a very subtle, yet powerful way. "Dr. Duke's very scholarly analysis of the history of Tee-Jay reminds us that, as we rush headlong into school restructuring and systemic change of school organization, we cannot ignore the history and traditions of each individual school in the process. Clearly the current wave of reform is at the school level; therefore, we must understand each school as a unique organization." -- William D. Silky, State University of New York at Oswego Thomas Jefferson High School faced court-ordered busing, student unrest, white flight, district-sponsored alternative schools, high school consolidation, budget crises, closure threats, magnet programs, and co-existence with a Governor's School. Each event impacted the culture of academic excellence that had been painstakingly crafted during the school's first thirty years. This book offers a history of Tee-Jay from its inception in 1930 through its "glory days," covers the school's efforts to deal with the challenges of the post-integration era, and concludes with a discussion of what the Tee-Jay story can tell us about the future of academic high schools and integration in the urban areas of the United States.

The School That Refused to Die: Continuity and Change at Thomas Jefferson High School (Suny Series, Educational Leadership)

History

Americas

State University of New York Press

Examines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginia’s Manassas Park City School’s ten-year turnaround.

The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District (S U N Y SERIES, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP)

State Univ of New York Pr

Examines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginia’s Manassas Park City School’s ten-year turnaround. The Little School System That Could is a story about transformation. In 1995, equipped with not much more than a vision of the quality education that urban students deserved, Tom DeBolt, the new superintendent of the Manassas Park School System, set into motion a series of reforms that transformed the district. By 2005 every school was accredited, passing rates on state tests had doubled, and the school system was attracting national attention. Daniel L. Duke examines the district’s ten-year turnaround, from four organizational perspectives and addresses the critical role of professional and political leadership in overcoming the challenges of low morale, scarce resources, changing demographics, and dysfunctional school-community relations.

The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District (SUNY Series on Educational Leadership) (SUNY Educational Leadership)

Teaching: The Imperiled Profession

What is it really like to be a teacher today? Teaching―The Imperiled Profession goes beyond conventional analyses, to probe the profession and various threats to its viability. Daniel L. Duke has drawn on his own and current educational research―including surveys of teacher opinion, interviews with teachers, and press coverage of educational issues―to uncover and examine a complex array of factors that contribute to the troubled state of the profession and the unprecedented discouragement of its practitioners. The book also analyzes traditional sources of support. Teaching―The Imperiled Profession provides prospective teachers with a realistic picture of the profession today. It identifies a set of concerns on which citizens might reasonably focus attention, in order to forestall any future deterioration. It provides the educator, administrator, and policy-maker with a comprehensive set of recommendations for revitalizing the profession. The book also serves as a concise history of the teaching profession as it has developed in the United States during the twentieth century.

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds

Most guides to the process of turning around low-performing schools are written for principals and policy makers. Teachers, however, are the individuals expected to conduct the “heavy lifting” of school improvement. Teachers’ Guide to School Improvement is the first book on the subject written expressly for teachers. In this expanded second edition, teachers are shown a step-by-step process for raising student achievement, beginning with the diagnosis of the causes of low achievement and extending through the crucial first year of turnaround and beyond. Examples of effective turnaround practices are drawn from a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools.

Tucker, Pamela D.

Salmonowicz, Michael J.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Most guides to the process of turning around low-performing schools are written for principals and policy makers. Teachers, however, are the individuals expected to conduct the “heavy lifting” of school improvement. Teachers’ Guide to School Improvement is the first book on the subject written expressly for teachers. In this expanded second edition, teachers are shown a step-by-step process for raising student achievement, beginning with the diagnosis of the causes of low achievement and extending through the crucial first year of turnaround and beyond. Examples of effective turnaround practices are drawn from a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools.

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Creating Safe Schools for All Children

The Challenges of Educational Change

The Challenges of School District Leadership

The Challenges of School District Leadership

The School That Refused to Die: Continuity and Change at Thomas Jefferson High School (Suny Series, Educational Leadership)

The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District (S U N Y SERIES, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP)

The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District (SUNY Series on Educational Leadership) (SUNY Educational Leadership)

Teaching: The Imperiled Profession

Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds

Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds