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This book uses international relations theory to offer different explanations for the politics of global health governance.

This books helps teachers and principals engage more in the policy and funding side of educational politics.

Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom offers practical techniques and research-based suggestions where all students, regardless of their abilities, are actively engaged in a vigorous, scaffolded, differentiated classroom taught by a compassionate, equitable teacher.

Combating Hatred provides several practical case studies of teachers, administrators, and school board members who have successfully combated intolerance, prejudice, and hatred in their schools.

This CHOICE award winning author has teamed up with a national school human resource expert to write a comprehensive book on managing human resources and collective bargaining. Everything you need to know is covered: human resources, recruiting, strategic planning, mentoring, benefits and compensation, terminating employees, unions and more.

This book explores the perspectives of IEP meeting participants who work with students who are CLD. Interviews with teachers; a disability rights attorney; a transition services specialist; a guidance counselor, and others examine the crucial areas of cross-cultural interactions. Their experiences yield practical suggestions for improvement.

This book offers a framework called "Open Way Learning," that applies the open source way, which emerged from software developers, to educational systems. It emphasizes the need for more collaboration and freely exchanged ideas then outlines steps leaders can take to make their schools more responsive in a rapidly changing society.

The book will show how art can be used to teach the Traits of Writing. Each chapter will include a summary of each trait and art and writing lessons to demonstrate how to teach the trait.

Tomal and Wozniak provide timely information about the uses of social media and further engage readers to critically analyze the advantages and disadvantages associated with social media.

Mindful Parenting helps parents raise children who will be calmer, more enlightened, and happier.

In the second edition of their 2000 book, John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking offer an updated version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as present the latest advances in museum research, theory, and practice in order to provide readers an inside view of how and why people learn from their museum experiences.

This book is designed to give school districts and/or principals the tools to implement a successful coaching model to support principals. It offers hands on, practical practices to overcome the challenge of principal isolation to help principals succeed in the position and in turn get the most out of their students and teachers, and themselves.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to addressing violence issues using research and evidence-based practices. By offering educators critical ways to measure, and approach violence and prevention, the book provides easy-to-implement suggestions and processes by which educators can created tailored programs to their schools' own needs.

The readers will learn about the importance of nurturing one's talent.

This book focuses on preparing students to be successful independent learners for the twenty first century. Students will construct their own meaning not only within the traditional brick and mortar environment with the assistant of the classroom teacher, but also in an online environment scaffolded by a virtual tutor.

In Death in Acadia, Randi Minetor gathers the stories of fatalities that have occurred in Maine's Acadia National Park, from falls to exposure to cardiac arrest--even getting swept out to sea--and presents dozens of misadventures.

This book addresses the nature of the learner and how to plan and deliver instruction for long term learning.

This book focuses on helping children become self-reliant thinkers and decision-makers. The exercises are "practice runs" to be presented in a casual atmosphere where students share their thinking and receive educator guidance. Educators will learn that observing their students' thinking processes can provide insight into their decision-making.

This book will help Library Support Staff (LSS) understand, support, and apply the basic principles of library supervision and management in their work on the topics of regulations and bylaws hiring, staff performance expectations, leadership and professional learning.

This timely book successfully combines theory and practice to intelligibly show how to prepare prospective school leaders for social justice, equity, and excellence.

The chapters examine new study abroad initiatives while looking closely at the critical role that guided teacher-led experience plays in facilitating intercultural growth and development.

This book gives teachers the tools and the teaching strategies to enable their students to become more discriminating consumers of information and misinformation coming at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press. It is an essential resource, rich in practical suggestions for classroom activities for every grade level.

Almost everyone considers himself or herself an authority on education because he or she has been to school. Depending on whether the school experience was a good one or not so good, people develop belief systems about what school should be. The authors of this book say that what schools should be is continuously improving.

Up and Running is a roadmap for creating a leadership program to meet the needs of colleges and the professional interests of employees. Authors share the basics of starting a program, such as application and selection process, budget, and program format, as well team building, decision making, conflict resolution, and diversity/inclusion.

This book provides fresh analysis of organizational culture in the community college context with a critical examination of the relationship between organizational culture and change.

City on the Line is about a revolution in public budgeting. It is the story of a hard luck city fighting through the Great Recession, a budget director trying to lead disruptive change, and a groundbreaking effort to link strategy, budget and data to get better results for residents.

This book provides examples and recommends highly effective and practical instructional and assessment strategies that classroom teachers can immediately implement and that school administrators can readily observe.

This book argues for a narrative approach to problem solving as it relates to the many challenges facing school boards, superintendents, principals, and other school leaders

This book offers a framework with corresponding rubrics anchored in professional standards: teacher, leader and teacher leader.

This book strives to empower teachers to integrate their unique talents, interests, quirks, and personalities into the classroom setting, and gives administrators, school staff and prospective educators tools to encourage a positive focus for these factors. It makes a helpful supplement for administrator and school leadership trainings.