Product Description: Restructuring is an international phenomenon, and great stress is placed on the role of the innovative principal in the process. This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals behave and think in the way they do...read more

Product Description: The ninth edition of Supervision: A Redefinition is a research-based guide to the practice of supervision that aims to clarify the major challenges teachers and supervisors face within the policy context; focus on essential, foundational understandings that feed the integrity of teaching and supervision; and explore the complexities of the practice of supervision and teaching which supervisors must deal with...read more

Product Description: This gold mine of wisdom from top education researcher and the bestselling author of Turning Around Failing Schools and Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement contains key tips and strategies every school leader should know...read more

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Members of one of America's most popular rock bands discuss life on the road, family, drug addiction, internal feuds, and their miraculous comeback almost a decade ago

The candid and compelling true story of America's most famous and successful rock band details their rise from nowhere to the top of the charts, a spectacular cocaine-and-heroin-fueled crash, and subsequent clean-and-sober comeback to even greater heights. Reprint.

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of Fflytte’s latest cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King...read more

Product Description: Supervisors can use this hands-on supervision model and practical tools such as exercises, summary sheets, and observation charts to improve teaching and learning through dialogue and collaboration.

Product Description: A complete instructional leadership system for improving classroom practice! Based on the Vermont Classroom Observation Tool, diagnostic classroom observation (DCO) provides principals with guidance for the entire instructional supervision process, from preconference analysis to postconference follow-up...read more

The Principalship focuses on how school leaders can create outstanding schools using reflective practice and moral authority. This book continues to emphasize school culture, standards, building community, and providing a moral basis for leadership as a means of navigating through contextual issues and constraints that principals routinely face. This edition aims to inform future principals about the decisions they will make about their practice and how those decisions will affect students and teachers. Extensively updated with new emphasis given to diversity as a part of community building, school character as an important ingredient in school effectiveness, new definitions of school effectiveness, and a new view of the process of change. The book's trademark emphasis on reflective practice is maintained and opportunities for reflection are provided throughout the book. The link between organizational character and school effectiveness is explored and emphasis is given to how organizational character can be established and maintained.

This highly readable text guides students step-by-step through the process of curriculum development, providing a solid foundation of key models and concepts and issues pertaining to curriculum today.  Developing the Curriculum, Seventh Edition, full of references to classic and contemporary curriculum works, provides students with a synthesis of historic and contemporary principles and practices associated with creating an effective curriculum. In addition, the author introduces a model that combines curriculum and instruction and carefully explores issues and challenges at each stage.

Product Description: The ninth edition of Supervision: A Redefinition is a research-based guide to the practice of supervision that aims to clarify the major challenges teachers and supervisors face within the policy context; focus on essential, foundational understandings that feed the integrity of teaching and supervision; and explore the complexities of the practice of supervision and teaching which supervisors must deal with...read more

This is a how-to guide to developing traditional and alternative approaches to teaching supervision to improve classroom teaching.

A highly respected overview of the field of instructional supervision that covers the three domains of supervision: instructional development, curriculum development, and staff development. The authors adhere to the beliefs that supervisors should look at teaching before looking at the teacher, and that the supervisor should look at the classroom and school environment within the context of instruction. Continuing in approach and philosophy as previous editions, the Eighth Edition will continue to lean toward practice, with heavy emphasis on the supervisor's responsibilities as an instructor.

Product Description: By focusing on the skills needed for success, rather than the skills demanded by specific positions or tasks, this universally-applicable book prepares future educators to meet the challenges of contemporary educational environments...read more

Product Description: Updated Edition of Bestseller!The updated and expanded second edition of this classic text provides new research and insights into how principals can encourage the teacher development that enhances student learning.

A vibrant history of the evolution of color and how it was produced for artistic and commercial use details how the modern chemical industry was born out of the demand for color, and combines the themes of art and science to show the symbiotic relationsip between chemical technology and the use of color throughout time. 15,000 first printing.