“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in every way.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
“The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh’s….A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.” —Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
The abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh—son of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series America’s Most Wanted—in Hollywood, Florida, was a crime that went unsolved for a quarter of a century. Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mother’s efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution.

Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

Comics & Graphic Novels

Standiford, Les

Matthews, Joe

Manga

Ecco

The Principalship allows readers to gain a broader, more complex and accurate understanding of school administrator leadership in today’s learning communities while presenting an expansive view of leadership within schools not limited to the responsibilities of the principal, but including those of assistant principals, administrators, teachers, and students. This innovative first edition text presents a complete picture of the principal as school administrator, community builder, advocate, manager, mentor, supervisor, politician, leader and learner. The Principalship covers the importance of learning: the learning of principals, the learning of other professionals, and especially the learning of students. School improvement is not possible without this across-the-board learning and exploration, and this text places a strong emphasis on this simple but often-overlooked aspect of school communities. Today’s school systems are faced with a number of fresh challenges: changing student populations, rapidly expanding research knowledge, increasing accountability requirements, federal and state policy demands, and escalating expectations for school services. This book will help aspiring school leaders to bridge the gap between traditional conceptualizations of the principal and more innovative, functional, and multifaceted conceptualizations that respond to the changing conditions and higher demands of contemporary learning communities.

Principalship, The: New Roles in a Professional Learning Community

Education & Teaching

Crow, Gary

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

The roles of administrators are conceptualized as being learners, mentors, supervisors, leaders, managers, politicians, and advocates. Administrators enact these roles directly or indirectly as facilitators to others. Thus, this book views administrators more broadly as transformational leaders who include the entire school community in reform. This book uses cases and activities to provide a bridge from learning the theory of school administration to the practical problem solving in which school leaders engage. For anyone interested in launching a career as a school principal or assistant principal.

Being and Becoming a Principal: Role Conceptions for Contemporary Principals and Assistant Principals (2003)

Crow, Gary M.

CYCLING FOR A CAUSE: A CROSS-COUNTRY ADVENTURE

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

SelfPublishing.com

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