Educational Strategies and Policy Books

What Secrets set top-performing Teams apart from the Rest?Keeping your team focused and on track in today's busy age of distractions is no easy task.Whether it's gossiping about their co-workers, sneering at the most recent political events, or...

Amplify Every Student's PotentialDo you ever wonder how you'll reach challenging students (You know the ones.) and bring out the best in every single student?Be Their Warrior will inspire you, stretch you, empathize with you, and empower you to be a...

True or false? The continued presence of the racial achievement gap is not merely an indication of how poorly individual students perform but more of an indication of a school's lack of effectiveness in teaching certain students. Depending on how one...

Make Professional Development Matter! is a book that is aimed at helping every teacher, principal, superintendent or any other educator realize why professional development in their setting may not be having the impact that they desire. The author...

Sweet Potato or Pumpkin Pie: Conversations with My White Friends About Race, Dr. William T. Lewis, talks with his White friends about perhaps one of the hardest conversation topics in America, racism. William and his friends discuss the human toll of...

Today's tweens are constantly bombarded by worldly messages masked as truth. It is important, more so now than ever before, to prepare them for adulthood equipped with a deep knowledge of Biblical truth.Chasing Adulthood is a comprehensive and...

Teachers are looking for new ways to respond to challenging behaviour. The premise of the book is that teachers can make a difference and that schools and early childhood education settings can be places where behaviour is addressed with courage and...

Do you want more happiness, meaning, and success in your life? This book teaches you the ability to permanently change your way of thinking. If you are tired of struggling and wondering what is to become of you, this book will show you why now is the...

In this book we considered new territory for educational leadership by looking to music for lessons and inspiration that may inform the next generation of schools leaders. Each chapter focuses on an artist or group whose work serves to refine, extend,...

International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series that contributes to the body of inclusive educational policies and practices focused on: empowering society’s most...

A volume in Urban Education Studies SeriesAnalyzing experiences of White mothers of daughters and sons of coloracross the U. S., Chandler provides an insider’s view of the complex ways inwhich Whiteness norms appear and operate. Through uncovering...

A volume in Urban Education Studies SeriesAnalyzing experiences of White mothers of daughters and sons of coloracross the U. S., Chandler provides an insider’s view of the complex ways inwhich Whiteness norms appear and operate. Through uncovering...

Over the last quarter century, educational leadership as a field has developed a broad strand of research that engages issues of social justice, equity and diversity. This effort includes the work of many scholars who advocate for a variety of...

Supervision in teacher education is entering an exciting time. In the last decade, national reports calling for the transformation of teacher preparation have advocated for greater school-university collaboration and increased clinical preparation of...

Though there has been a rapid increase of women's representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. Researchers have revealed that there are several environmental and social barriers including stereotypes,...

There is a large body of research that supports the reality that school leaders make a significant contribution to the success of schools and the students in them. Additionally, there is strong agreement among and between researchers and state and...

Learning and identity development are lifetime processes of becoming. The construction of self, of interest to scholars and practitioners in adult development and adult learning, is an ongoing process, with the self both forming and being formed by lived...

Calling others in to lead for social justice has never been more important. In a world plagued by multiple and overlapping pandemics and other crises, the cost of leadership failures is constantly rising. Leadership education is responding to these...

New college students are led to believe that sharing personal information and freely expressing their opinions on social media is expected and their right to free speech. What they fail to understand is that any information they reveal may be used to...

Transformative Education for the Second Renaissance follows educator John P. W. Hudson through a personal and professional journey that led him to respond to what he sees as underlying fissures in the bedrock of educational practice. At the height of his...

Transformative Education for the Second Renaissance follows educator John P. W. Hudson through a personal and professional journey that led him to respond to what he sees as underlying fissures in the bedrock of educational practice. At the height of his...

Born to Lead unravels the mysteries of effective leadership.  Hill uses her own life to illustrate that we were all born to win, which supports her faith inspired message that we are Born to Lead. She vibrantly pinpoints the principles and thought...

Citizen artists revitalize place, celebrate culture, and inspire social change This full-color celebration of communities engaged in creative cultural expression profiles nine exemplary grassroots arts projects depicting an intersection of...

A volume in Literacy, Language, and LearningSeries Editor Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Le Moyne CollegeLack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students' learning outside school has contributedto the difficulties educators encounter when trying to...

A volume in Literacy, Language, and LearningSeries Editor Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Le Moyne CollegeLack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students' learning outside school has contributedto the difficulties educators encounter when trying to...

In this memoir, a young African leader shares his thoughts on finding meaning in a life of purpose and service. It begins in 2009 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, where Jean-Marc Mercy receives a telephone call and learns that his father is...

The Purple Colored Church exposes the deception and betrayal of the mystery woman riding the beast in Revelation 17:3, who's religious doctrines may have led millions if not billions to the slaughter of Hell's fiery fury. Multitudes of people have been...

It's time to say a good word for the ten o'clock scholar. The recovery of a flourishing academic culture--which is not the same as being a major research center--lies in the recovery of leisure. The heart of this practice is contemplation and Divine...

Brad Zervas observed twenty years ago that the boys we once were are the men who we become—and the same is true today.It’s a startling observation given that all is not well in America and around the world—especially for young men of...

The author of this handbook, Nisarg Desai, has created a guide that will assist 11th and 12th grade students in India prepare for premedical tests such as the NEET, AIIMS, and JIPMER. The work is based upon the author’s own notes on a broad range...

It is time to go “all-in” with the digital transition and realize its true end-pointContaining studied critiques and survival strategies, The Consumerization of Learning is a distillation of knowledge from the author’s epic road trip to...

Sean McElwee has lived a rich extracurricular life. As a student, he played every sport offered, joined Cub Scouts, attended dances, and even dated a celebrity. Sean, who has Down syndrome, functions according to a combination of the "it's easier to gain...

Does this makes sense to you? FOLKLORE: Necessity is the Mother of Invention. A Loaf of Bread is a Necessity. A Locomotive is an Invention. THEREFORE: A Loaf of Bread is the Mother of a Locomotive. Of course not. But lately, what in our society does make...

The Super Aliens say that the world around us is a haze, a mist of particles. Our human brains turn this cloud into our 'solid' world.Four students explore a huge cave in the Rocky Mountains; deep inside, the walls turn glassy. Mechanical robots appear...

""A Guide To The Teacher�������s Mastery Of Texts And Aids In Elementary Instruction"" is a book written by Edith Cora Buck and originally published in 1908. The book is a comprehensive guide for elementary school teachers, providing them with the...

A Father To His Freshman Son: A Father To His Graduate Girl is a book written by Edward Sandford Martin and published in 1918. The book is a collection of letters that Martin wrote to his son and daughter during their first year of college and upon their...

A Decade Of Oratory, At Northwestern University: Eleven Prize Orations (1888) is a book written by Edwin Llewellyn Shuman. The book is a collection of eleven prize-winning orations delivered by students of Northwestern University over a period of ten...

The Alpha Tau Omega Palm: Official Organ of the Fraternity (1892) is a book that serves as the official publication of the Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity. Written by the High Council, the book is a comprehensive guide to the fraternity's history,...

Laboratory Physics: A Student�������s Manual For Colleges And Scientific Schools (1903) by Miller, Dayton Clarence is a comprehensive guidebook for students studying physics in colleges and scientific schools. The book provides a detailed and practical...

The Art Of Writing English: A Book For College Classes is a comprehensive guide to writing in the English language, written by Rollo Walter Brown and originally published in 1913. The book is intended for use by college students, but can also be useful...

""Spoken English: A Method of Improving Speech and Reading"" is a book written by Samuel Silas Curry and published in 1913. The book focuses on improving one's speech and reading abilities by studying the conditions and modulations of the voice, as well...