A guidance guide for early childhood leaders

"Guidance Guy" Dan Gartrell provides strategies on how early childhood professionals can help others gain the emotional health they need to build relationships and solve problems cooperatively.

A machine learning, artificial intelligence approach to institutional effectiveness in higher education

This book presents a practical, effective, and systematic approach to the measurement, assessment, and sensemaking of institutional performance. Included are strategies to measure and assess the performance of Curriculum, Learning, Instruction, Support Services, and Program Feasibility as well as...

Addressing challenging behavior in young children: the leader's role

Why do children behave the way they do? And why do teachers respond to children’s behavior the way they do? And what can you do to support all of them? There is no single script or one right answer. But with the realistic and practical strategies in this book, directors and administrators of ea...

Becoming great universities

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to greatBecoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus—from presidents to first-year undergraduates—can take to enhance st...

Beyond refuge

Beyond Refuge explores abstractions, practicalities, impediments, and assets proffered by research participants to illustrate what an educational transformation should and could look like via a theoretical framework for emancipatory education of forcibly-displaced youth.

Boosting impact and innovation in higher education

This book provides a practical guide to mastering The Knowledge Entrepreneur Toolkit and to establishing High Diversity Groups in universities. It represents a practical guide for academics, professional staff and university leaders to develop the skills and cultures needed to work intelligently ...

Boys 2 mentors curriculum manual

Building a better normal

Drawing on case studies and narrative reflections, contributors offer crucial insights that can guide higher education and schools of education on structural and conceptual shifts in approaches to leadership, research, teaching, learning, and student and staff well-being.

Building a positive school culture

Stephen Brown and Andrew Fuller present a compelling case for the need for an unrelenting focus by school leaders and school communities to shape, enable, and nurture school environments in which everyone thrives—students, staff, parents, and the broader community.

Building together

Develop the leadership skills needed to build sustainable early childhood systems and work toward continuous improvement.

Changing the game for generation alpha

Valora Washington invites readers to consider the new challenges and opportunities of raising Generation Alpha and offers support to families and early childhood educators to advocate for young children.

Coaching with powerful interactions second edition

<b>From the authors of the bestselling book <i>Powerful Interactions</i> comes a guide crafted especially for coaches and all professionals supporting the work of early childhood teachers.</b>  <p>When the quality of interactions improves, relationships become deeper...

Creating a culture of reflective practice

As the field of early learning continues to grow and evolve, we must consider the impact of our approaches to working with adults and children. Early childhood professionals and leaders need to reconcile their responsibilities in never-ending administrative tasks, ensuring program quality, and su...

Critical education leadership and policy scholarship

Critical Education Leadership and Policy Scholarship explores the relationships between education leadership and policy whilst showcasing the advancement of a new methodology for exploring education leadership from a critical perspective.

Critical perspectives on educational policy and change

This edited collection offers critical and creative explorations of leadership through the lenses of ideology, history, economics, and politics. Diverse scholars, from early career researchers to established academics, interrogate how power relations operate within educational leadership amid shi...

Degendering leadership in higher education

Through 34 interviews with women and men serving as presidents, deans, and provosts at some of the United States' top colleges and universities, this book explores what degendered leadership looks like in an academic setting and creates a path for inspired, talented, and qualified leadership that...

Developing and supporting multiculturalism and leadership development

The modern notion of humanism centres on the core qualities in all humans: agency, dignity, and development; primarily concerned with addressing contemporary human needs, concerns and problems. This book has an interdisciplinary focus on the development of human capacity at all levels, with the v...

Developing conscious gratitude in schools

Developing Conscious Gratitude in Schools transforms how educators address systemic inequality in American education. Hill presents a comprehensive blueprint for creating inclusive, empowering learning environments that shift students from burdens to brilliance, particularly those from low-income...

Doing the right thing

An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring—and what to do about itWhile colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty. In 2017, of the nation’s full-time, t...

Doing the right thing for children

The dynamic and respected Maurice Sykes's call to leadership within the early childhood community to do right by children

Early careers in education

This is the first book to bridge the divide between completing a professional course in education and entering into a practical career in education provision. Presented analysis of specific issues as well as overarching themes, it is must-have reading for those who have just commenced a career in...

Education workforce well-being

Corbett widens the discussion on well-being in the education workforce, drawing not only on education but also human resource management and leadership research and providing a critical analysis that highlights not only the challenges but research-informed recommendations for managers, leaders an...

Effective leadership for overcoming ict challenges in higher education

The very nature of higher education, with its long ties to tradition and academic values, does not lend itself easily to emerging ICT strategies. This book asks how we, as educators, can shift mind-sets, practices, policies, and attitudes in higher education in order to serve society and meet th...

Emotion management and feelings in teaching and educational leadership

This book highlights the connection between culture and emotion management in teaching and educational leadership and allows researchers from different parts of the world to demonstrate how national and local culture influence the way educational leaders and teachers express their feelings, displ...

Emotional self-management in academia

Emotional Self-Management in Academia draws on new empirical research from academics' own personal accounts of emotional experiences from their everyday practice to illustrate how their emotional work is adapting in response to a constantly changing workplace.

Engaging in the leadership process

This book introduces process-based understandings of leadership for college student leaders and educators. It explores identity, capacity, and efficacy in leadership development. Each chapter includes features like reflection questions and activities, making it accessible for high school and grad...

Evaluating and supporting early childhood teachers

Accessible tools to help early childhood leaders support, train, evaluate, and empower teachers and raise quality in early education

Exploring culturally relevant leadership learning

Exploring Culturally Relevant Leadership Learning offers a comprehensive collection of case studies that delve into the eight critical aspects of the culturally relevant leadership learning model. Through meticulously curated case studies this book provides readers with a rich tapestry of diverse...

Five elements of collective leadership for early childhood professionals

Collective leadership is based on shared decision-making, transparency, and involving the people affected by change

Formalise, prioritise and mobilise

Professional learning networks (PLN) are considered to be an effective way to foster school improvement. In order to generate change PLNs require effective support from school leaders, but these leaders might best support PLNs is currently little understood. To address this, this book presents a ...

From survive to thrive

Theory meets practical tips in this guide for leaders of early childhood programs

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Higher education leadership

Offering a unique insider view of higher education, Ferris and Waldron skillfully showcase expert leadership, providing a rich and meaningful understanding of higher education leadership from across the nexus of existential, philosophical and practical concerns.

Honing self-awareness of faculty and future business leaders

Honing Self-Awareness of Faculty and Future Business Leaders emphasizes self-awareness and management of emotions as a strong differentiator for generating student engagement, well-being and performance in complex and ambiguous societal and economic VUCA environments.

Improving the relational space of curriculum realisation

Improving the Relational Space of Curriculum Realisation outlines an approach to intervention that helps educators solve problematic patterns in their networks, leverage resources better within and across school networks, and embed relational conditions that are conducive to ambitious curriculum ...

Inclusive and innovative leadership in higher education

Universities around the world are grappling with the normalization of ineffectual leadership practices that are normalized and rarely challenged. This timely edited collection offers a critical examination of the leadership vacuum that has quietly become the norm.

Inclusive leadership

This book explores the role of inclusive leaders in creating strong, responsive cultures that value individual potential. It addresses the challenges such as implicit bias and systemic barriers. The book emphasizes the importance of ongoing actions, collaboration, and bridging theory with practic...

International perspectives on leadership in higher education

As complex, large institutions, universities present unique challenges for leaders. International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education examines how contemporary leaders in higher education – in different disciplines, at different levels and in different parts of the world – are identifi...

Intersections of financial literacy, citizenship, and spirituality

Through art-based instructional processes that stimulate students' affective awareness, it encourages facilitation of compassionate environments founded on principles of selflessness and will prove invaluable for researchers, leaders and practitioners in the field of social education.

Leadership in early education in times of change

The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well a...

Leadership in turbulent times

The first of two volumes, Leadership in Turbulent Times draws upon cutting edge theories and evidence-based strategies by integrating conceptual and empirical work addressing educational leadership in these unprecedented and turbulent times, with a particular focus on the P-12 education workplace.

Leadership in turbulent times

The second of two volumes, Leadership in Turbulent Times draws upon cutting edge theories and evidence-based strategies, integrating conceptual and empirical work addressing higher educational leadership in these unprecedented and turbulent times with a particular focus on cultivating diversity a...

Leadership learning as a way to thrive

Leadership Learning as a Way to Thrive explores the dynamic connection between personal thriving and leadership learning. This timely and thought-provoking book invites students to reimagine leadership learning as a catalyst for well-being.

Leadership of historically black colleges and universities

HBCUs are facing increasing challenges with funding, accreditation, enrollment, retention, and graduations rates. It is imperative that the future leaders of these unique institutions of higher learning pay attention to past mistakes in order to innovate and respond. This book focuses on positio...

Leadership strategies for promoting social responsibility in higher education

This book explores the theoretical underpinnings and interventions of CSR practised by universities across the globe and the role their leadership plays in promoting this. It provides international examples from the US, Africa, Europe and Asia, with implications and insights for university leader...

Leadership talks

Presenting a diverse and inclusive overview of academic leadership, this timely work will be of use and interest to current, future, and aspiring leaders in higher education, along with higher education scholars and students.

Leadership, organisation and the sustainability of teacher work

By advocating a view of leadership, organisation and teacher work as complex, intertwined tangles of processes, Leadership, Organisation and the Sustainability of Teacher Work begins to sketch out an alternative perspective for understanding educational organisations and how the work of teachers ...

Leading education systems

As the once-in-a-lifetime stimulus of a pandemic creates the opportunity for change, this ground-breaking and timely edited text is a must-have springboard for the re-imagination of education system leadership. How can education stakeholders act in collaboration to lead us into a new and differe...

Leading educational systems and schools in times of disruption and exponential change

This book provides an analysis of the impact of disruptive environments on education and closely examines national and international research-based literature on how educational systems in a number of countries are successfully transforming educational delivery processes to better prepare student...