Product Description: Boost teacher-to-teacher collaboration and learning as a means of informal, but powerful professional development!Most teachers have experienced some kind of formal mentoring or induction program. What these programs can miss is the meaningful daily interaction with peers that builds mutual trust and instructional collaboration...read more

The authors show how to develop open, honest, and sincere relationships with teachers and how it is possible to create a school environment that focuses on the social and educational welfare of students.

Product Description: This groundbreaking book exposes the various manifestations and effects of abuse and offers practical solutions for its prevention and correction.  (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book looks at relationships involving teachers in schools and explores the political meanings they attribute to their everyday encounters with administrators (especially headteachers), other teachers, pupils and parents. Basing his findings on one long-term case study of one secondary school and several other qualitative studies, Joe Blase concentrates in particular on the teacher's perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Grounded in the day-to-day practicalities of school life, this book records the shared musings of eight principals in their attempts to achieve the ideals of democracy and empowerment in their schools. In each case, these ideals are tempered by a range of bureaucratic and political obstacles, contradictions and complexities inherent in the education system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This in-depth study of grassroots politics - `micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.