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Leading Powerful Professional Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Leading Powerful Professional Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-19
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  • Publisher: Corwin Press

Effective facilitation is complex What is central to leading powerful and effective facilitation in professional learning? You. Gone are the one-size-fits-all answers—instead, you’ll draw from your own knowledge and expertise to lead your PLC in actively solving complex problems that are unique to your context. For professional learning to have an improvement impact for both teachers and students, it needs to be more than a single event. Truly successful professional learning is sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused—generating multifaceted solutions to real-life, real-time issues rather than focusing on one piece of the practice puzzle at a time. This book, b...

Leading professional learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 135

Leading professional learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-12-01
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  • Publisher: ACER Press

Leading Professional Learning: Practical strategies for impact in schools identifies the challenges that school leaders face when leading professional learning and development in their schools as part of an improvement agenda.

Teachers Leading Educational Reform
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Teachers Leading Educational Reform

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Teachers Leading Educational Reform explores the ways in which teachers across the world are currently working together in professional learning communities (PLCs) to generate meaningful change and innovation in order to transform pedagogy and practice. By discussing how teachers can work collectively and collaboratively on the issues of learning and teaching that matter to them, it argues that through collective action and collaborative agency, teachers are leading educational reform. By offering contemporary examples and perspectives on the practice, impact and sustainability of PLCs, this book takes a global, comparative view showing categorically that those educational systems that are p...

Reimagining School Leadership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 185

Reimagining School Leadership

Reimagining School Leadership critically analyzes the current conceptions of school leadership and school improvement, consider historical and contemporary problems confronting school leaders and presents new ways to reimagine school leadership with an emphasis on sustainability, learning, and inclusivity.

Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1138

Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Covers a broad range of topics within the fields of education and human development. Includes the ways in which learners construct knowledge at the different stages of human development, the educational tools used by teachers to teach, and educational politics.

Developing School Leaders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Developing School Leaders

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Many countries face a crisis in recruitment to the most senior positions in schools at a time when arguments rage about the best way to develop our school leaders. Focusing on leadership development in ten diverse cultural contexts, this book brings together some of the most senior commentators in the field of educational leadership development to provide a global perspective on leadership development programmes and practices. The rise of leadership development programmes has presented opportunities for some and challenges for others. These challenges are both practical and conceptual and relate to a series of questions that are unpacked in the book including: What is the appropriate balance...

Women Leading Education Across the Continents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Women Leading Education Across the Continents

Women Leading Education Across the Continents: Harnessing the Joy in Leadership is the fifth collection of research from scholars around the globe who seek to understand the successes, challenges and progress of girls and women leading in education. Using a variety of approaches to their inquiries, the scholars and practitioners in this book discover and document the work of women leaders throughout the world, seeking to understand in more nuanced ways how to chart a path for a more just society for all. This volume explores the status of women in educational leadership internationally, the factors that affect their leadership, their personal experiences and stories, and their work within the broader context of human rights. The journey of discovery in these pages invites titiro whakamua—looking toward a world for the good of all people.

Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to open a discourse on innovative methodologies and practices associated with narrative and metaphor. Scholars from diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences report on how they use narrative and/or metaphor in their scholarship/research to arrive at new ways of seeing, thinking about and acting in the world. The book provides a range of methodological chapters for academics and practitioners alike. Each chapter discusses various aspects of the author’s transformative methodologies and practices and how they contribute to the lives of others in their field. In this regard, the authors address traditional disciplines such as history and geography, as well as professional practices such as counselling, teaching and community work.

Student-Centered Leadership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Student-Centered Leadership

Student-Centered Leadership offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their school and ultimately improve their students' performance. This book is based not on fad or fashion but on the best available evidence about the impact of different types of leadership on student outcomes. The book includes examples of five types of leadership practice as well as rich accounts of the knowledge and skills that leaders need to employ them with confidence. Filled with practical lesson...

The Limitations of the Open Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Limitations of the Open Mind

When should you engage with difficult arguments against your cherished controversial beliefs? The primary conclusion of this book is that your obligations to engage with counterarguments are more limited than is often thought. In some standard situations, you shouldn't engage with difficult counterarguments and, if you do, you shouldn't engage with them open-mindedly. This conclusion runs counter to aspects of the Millian political tradition and political liberalism, as well as what people working in informal logic tend to say about argumentation. Not all misleading arguments wear their flaws on their sleeve. Each step of a misleading argument might seem compelling and you might not be able ...