Are you a teacher or guidance counselor looking for an accessible reference guide? This revised edition of a popular 1993 anthology includes 120 tests and surveys, bringing together psychometric information about instruments developed to measure constructs in education and social sciences.

Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences

Politics & Social Sciences

Bishop, Lloyd K.

Social Sciences

ScarecrowEducation

Do you want to cultivate independent learners through an integrated curriculum? Schramm uncovers the theories behind the design of an integrated curriculum and provides a practical framework for implementation. After discussing the necessity of staff development strategies, appropriate text sources, alternative assessment strategies, leadership, and organizational strategies, she provides classroom-tested sample curriculums and discusses various successful teaching strategies.

Transforming the Curriculum

Education & Teaching

Schramm, Susan L.

Schools & Teaching

This book is designed for the career teacher interested in designing positive learning environments. For the teacher facing challenges in the classroom, this essential text goes far beyond background experiences and training programs in providing knowledge with an impact. Planning, organizing, and facilitating learning are all covered to enable teachers to better enable students.

Setting Up & Facilitating Student-Centered Classrooms

Phifer, Sandra

Now in Paper! Helpful examples from both the public and private sectors and from literature and history are presented in this outstanding volume for superintendents, centraloffice administrators, and corporate managers involved in the change process.

Checklist for Change (2nd Edition)

Harvey, Thomas R.

The chief executive officer of a corporation is not much different from a public school administrator. While CEOs base many of their decisions on data, for school administrators, this type of research may conjure up miserable memories of searching for information to meet a graduate school requirement. However, the value of data-based decision making will continue to escalate and the school community — students, teachers, parents and the general public — expect this information to come from their administrators. Administrators are called on to be accountable, but few are capable of presenting the mountain of data that they collect in a cohesive and strategic manner. Most statistical books are focused on statistical theory versus application, but Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders presents statistics in a simple, practical, conceptual, and immediately applicable manner. It enables administrators to take their data and manage it into strategic information so the results can be used for action plans that benefit the school system. The approach is "user friendly" and leaves the reader with a confident can-do attitude to communicate results and plans to staff and the community.

Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders: Data-Driven Decision Making (Scarecrow Education Book)

Business & Money

Carroll, David J.

Management & Leadership

Leading With Emotion: Reaching Balance in Educational Decision Making

It is no surprise that successful school leaders have strong interpersonal skills. That they can communicate, motivate, resolve conflict, build teams, and persuade others at high levels is well documented by research. However, new research indicates that emotion plays a pivotal role in using these skills and there is a new awareness of the importance of the emotions in our behaviour and decisionmaking. This book explains the research and concepts and places them in the nittygritty environment in which school leadership occurs. The exercise of leadership is analyzed through three conceptual frames: 1) the leader, 2) constituents, and 3) the situation. Case studies, events taken from recent news, and behavioural and neurological research are described to illustrate the importance of emotions in leadership. Each chapter closes with a statement of five fundamental facts to aid the reader in integrating and applying the information to their situation. It should also enable them to know and manage his or her emotional stability and engender emotional awareness and assurance in others.

Buckner, Kermit G.

The Board-Savvy Superintendent's hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadie's hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district leaders―board members, superintendents, and senior administrators―learn to work together successfully in leading their districts in these extraordinarily challenging times. Filled with detailed, thoroughly tested guidance on how to acquire the skills and knowledge that make up board savvyness, it also addresses how to develop the school board's capacity to produce truly high-impact governance, and how to build a strong, enduring, productive board-superintendent working partnership. The authors take a fresh look at the process of governing, going well beyond the old-fashioned, control-focused "policy governance" approach. Rather than being preoccupied with developing a static structure of policies to distinguish the board's role from the superintendent's, the book describes how the board and superintendent can creatively work together in making decisions about such critical governing "products" as values, vision, mission, and strategic change initiatives. School district leaders will appreciate The Board-Savvy Superintendent's close look at the "gold standard" for board involvement in school affairs: leading strategic change. The authors go well beyond the conventional long-range planning approach of merely projecting everything a school district is doing for some arbitrary period of 3 or 5 years, which has generated tons of paper and little important change to provide the reader with detailed, practical guidance on engaging school boards creatively and proactively in a much more selective, vision-driven process that actually results in the implementation of strategic change: the Strategic Change Portfolio.

The Board-Savvy Superintendent

Eadie, Doug

Most school districts do not have a full time human resources administrator to conduct interviews and this important task most often becomes the responsibility of the building principal or a department head. Here is a guide designed for hiring employees, both professional staff as well as nonprofessional, in public, parochial, or private schools. It offers more than one thousand interview questions in fortyeight employment categories ranging from superintendent and business manager to security officer and parent volunteer.

Complete Interview Procedures for Hiring School Personnel

Gagnon, William L.

Economics

Preparing school administrators for the challenges they will face requires materials well-informed about the nuts and bolts of education in real life. Only a richly detailed case study book like Short and Scribner's will provide them with the opportunity to analyze current issues. Each narrative chapter concludes with application questions and a list of references. The authors, some of the most respected American scholars on the superintendency have compiled cases grounded in research and reality. They explore topics such as the politics of education, the debate over merit pay, women in the superintendency, and the role of the superintendent as an instructor.

Case Studies of the Superintendency

Short, Paula M.

Scribner, Jay Paredes

Constitutional Law

Here, the authors offer a way for superintendents and those in training to combine bestpractice theory with practice using everyday, realistic situations within the framework of state and national standards.

StandardsBased Leadership: A Case Study Book for the Superintendency

Tillman Lowery, Sandra Lynn

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