Education : Decision Making & Problem Solving

This book posits career identification, selection, entry, and progression as part of a larger developmental process—the career development process. Its......

Recently emerging from a decade-long civil war, Sierra Leone is making a remarkable recovery. The future holds great promise as well as many challenges for t......

Offers practical strategies and specific activities for teaching students to be peacemakers, as well as an approach that involves interrelated programs for p......

How can we help both beginning and experienced teachers engage students in today's diverse classrooms? How can we focus on actual problems that teachers face......

How do you make a decision? How do you know you've made a good one? Whether you're a 7th grade student selecting a science fair project, or a school board...

We're all learners on life's journey, and often the messy problems we encounter present us with the best education. Researchers are finding that the same con......

Who is responsible for student learning? Walk into an effective school and ask this question of anyone-a teacher, a student, the principal, a parent voluntee......

Create Your Way Out Workshop is a reference on techniques for creating. Author: Create Your Way Out University Publisher: Barter Publishing Illustration: N ......

As a principal, you know how challenging it is to build a dedicated staff, encourage parental support, help students get excited about learning, and create a......

Teachers share one vital characteristic with students: they function best in settings that are organized enough to provide structure and focus, yet flexible ......

As every educator knows, even the best-performing schools have occasional discipline issues. In The Educator's Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discip......

More often than not, youth turn to their friends for help, rather than to adults. Through a comprehensive, 15-session curriculum, this resource prepares teac......

Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement. Use this practical guide to implement systems thin......

Characterized by complex challenges and constant change, a school or district hierarchy can prove a difficult setting in which to establish high-performance ......

A volume in Research and Theory in Educational Administration Series Editors: Wayne K. Hoy, The Ohio State University and Michael DiPaola, The College of Wil......

This book lays out very practical approaches to making our ever-increasingly large schools work more effectively. By closely analyzing the advantages and dis......

Offering advice for teachers eager to develop better discipline in the classroom, this guide provides practical methods for eliminating disruptive behavior, ......

The new edition of this classic book describes and provides a myriad of examples of the relationships between problem posing and problem solving, and explore......

Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and common-sense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning. The book ties together t......

As a consequence of the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) law, there is tremendous pressure on school principals, teachers, school superintendents, distr......