"This wonderful, witty book tells it like it is. These two experienced administrators tell you what school administration is really all about." --Educational Leadership (ASCD) "The authors are often irreverent, but they also offer tough, sensible advice and insights." --Executive Educator Contents (condensed): Power and the Context of School Administration: Power and Politics Are You Ready to Play the Game Bureaucracies Connections: Community PTA Staff Media Students Career Ladder: Career Planning Resumes, Headhunters, Interviewing Academics and Abecedarian Getting the Job Done Right: The Job vs. Job Description Ploys to Avoid Hiring, Shifting, Firing Emmetropia of Evaluation Budget Skullduggery Textbooks, Tyranny, Curriculum Chicanery, and Testing Insanity Adversaries and Friends: Secretaries and Custodians Unions The Lunatic Fringe Arch Rivals and Competitors Surviving: Knowing Who's the Boss Staying in Power Staying Power Idealism vs. Ideology

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Best-selling guide for evaluation and professional growth. Now in its fifth printing, this best-selling book by a distinguished educator is a complete and readable guide to all aspects of the portfolio for teacher evaluation and professional growth. The Teacher's Portfolio goes beyond practical steps in portfolio-building and applications by providing teachers and supervisors with insightful and highly qualified coaching in skill-building and career realization.

The Teacher's Portfolio: Fostering and Documenting Professional Development, First Edition

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Allan A. Glatthorn

Schools & Teaching

School administrators often have a time management problem: too much to do-too little time. This best-selling professional book, now in its third printing, provides you with the tools you need to take control of your workday-to accomplish more in less time, to manage better, and to reduce time-pressure stress. Unlike other books on time management, this one deals specifically with the time management problems of school administrators. The comprehensive program and its many techniques detailed in the book are practical, proven, and adaptable to many different administrative settings and situations. This program will work for you. From the author's Introduction: "It is possible to be a principal, superintendent or other school administrator and still be calm, in control and happy….This conviction comes from the experiences of thousands of school administrators who decided to take charge of their lives by employing the tools available through time management….This book describes the procedures which can be used to achieve this goal." Contents Introduction Breaking the Stereotype Identifying the Problems Getting Organized Setting Goals Delegate Maximize Meetings Empower Secretaries Block Interruptions Master the Telephone Manage Stress Communicate Effectively Motivate Staff Identify Time Wasters Train the Staff: A Mini Time Management In-Service, A Time-Management Training Program Appendix: Transparencies, Checklists, Outlines Index

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Ivan W. Fitzwater

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Practical aid in dealing with school problems and needs If you are a principal, assistant principal or considering a school leadership position, this unique book by a seasoned principal and principal educator will help you understand the full scope of the principal's functions, responsibilities, and problems - and how to deal with them.

The Spirited Principal: Strategies That Work

Rebecca Wheat

Just published is the latest edition of an exceptional book for teachers. Written by the eminent teacher educator Allan Glatthorn, this highly practical volume uses the portfolio as a vehicle to help teachers identify and improve a range of instructional skills. The book is a lucidly written summary of what goes into superior teaching. This new edition explains the role of standards in monitoring teaching and shows how school professionals can work together to improve. Used by dozens of teacher-educator programs in the U.S., this brand new edition offers both the tools and inspiration for making and documenting progress in classroom instruction.

The Teacher's Portfolio

Marilyn Sheerer

The quality of a school depends on the spiritual qualities of its leaders. But what is the spiritual? Can or should spirituality be brought to bear by school administrators—in any meaningful way—without legal violation or personal offense? This book answers these questions positively and practically. It shows how ideas and insights from Eastern and Western traditions, secular and religious, can and do play a role in school improvement. Educators will find here beliefs that can shape a school’s policies and practices, making them more far-reaching and benign. At the same time, the book lays out the legal constraints on different ways the spiritual can and cannot be manifest. This volume is a gateway to a new understanding of school leadership—one that connects the inner life to the day-to-day. It shows how spirituality provides a unique understanding of the work of school administrators and the teachers and students they are expected to inspire. It can be read and consulted by leaders seeking a more significant context for administrative decisions, policies, and handling of people.

Inspiring Practice: Spirituality & Educational Leadership

Surveys and explains all special programs and services in schools For understanding, managing, connecting to instruction Covers special education, NCLB, Title 1, ESL, charter schools, adult education, health services, applied education, service coordination, funding, prevention programs, guidance, community partnerships, and more Syllabus-ready, up-to-date references, questions for discussion From drug prevention to nutrition, school leaders must administer an unprecedented number of special programs, in addition to the regular and the extra curricula. This book is designed for administrators in courses and in the field to understand, manage and optimize special programs, especially as they relate to student learning. The book is a succinct, completely up-to-date and comprehensive guide to federal and state mandated special programs. It shows in detail how these programs are linked to instruction. Virtually all school services available to students and their families are covered, and every chapter discusses key legal, funding, and staffing issues. Information is presented for administering NCLB mandates, special education requirements, health and safety programs, enrichment, guidance and psychology, and adult education—just a small sample of the programs discussed in this new book. The book contains hundreds of timely references and discussion questions. It is well organized to train building staff and central office personnel. Here are the tools to help school leaders understand programs and the issues surrounding them. This book gives administrators the information needed to fund, staff, and modify programs that will benefit students, parents, and the community. TABLE OF CONTENTS (Abridged) 1. Title Programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Historical Background 21st Century Schools General Provisions of NCLB Promoting Informed Parental Choice Impact Aid Financing Title 1 Programs Questions for Consideration, Refer. 2. Assessment, Accountability, Quality Assessment of Learning Children with Disabilities LEP Students Instructional Leadership 3. Special Education Services History, Current Status, Eligibility Determining Eligibility The Referral Process Discipline and Students w. Disabilities Section 504 Safeguards and Due Process Personnel and Administrative Issues Funding, Future Trends 4. Programs for Students with Gifts and Talents Definitions, Identification Program Development, Implementing Administrative Issues, Funding 5. Programs for English-Language Learners ESL, Bilingual Programs Recommended Instructional Roles of Teachers, Students, Par- ents, Community Members Assessment 6. Alternative Educational Opportunities Restructuring, Reform, Choice Charter Schools Public School Academies Adult Education Administration 7. Applied Educational Programs Research, Statistical Outlook Rationale for a New Approach Models of Reform Legislation and Funding Sources 8. Health and Human Services in Schools Evolution of Health Care in Schools Coordinated Health/Human Service Child Abuse, Neglect Signs Food Services Physical Education Programs Coordination of Services 9. Prevention Programs Substance

Special Programs & Services in Schools: Creating Options, Meeting Needs

Eileen S. Johnson

Bonnie Beyer

*Comprehensive and trusted guide to building, maintaining, upgrading schools*Recently published 2nd edition adds new material on renovation, alternative funding strategies, green building and more*With cases and questions, a useful textbook for courses in administration, planning, finance and facilities managementThis volume was written for educators tasked with providing the best environment for student learning. A practical text, it cover all the details needed to build, maintain and upgrade school facilities, with special attention to student achievement and the budget. Information on financial calculations, procurement, staffing, outsourcing, legal and regulatory aspects and operations is included.The new edition offers important guidance on alternative funding and cost-saving strategies, state and federal regulations, and trends in green building and LEED certification.Both authors have extensive experience in educational facility planning and management. Dr. Earthman is the former executive director for school facility planning for the Philadelphia Public Schools; Dr. Lemasters is a former president of the Virginia Educational Facility Planners.

School Maintenance and Renovation: Administrative Policies, Practices, and Economics

Glen I. Earthman

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