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  • Distributed Leadership

    by James P. Spillane ...
    Series Book 4 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Last Flight, The

    by James A. Spillane ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Bill Oxley E ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 2 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When veteran Ethan Whitmore returns home to Boston, the war follows him.Haunted by memories he cannot escape, Ethan struggles beneath the expectations of his prominent family, his devoted fiancée, and a father more comfortable controlling a public narrative than confronting private pain. As the mask begins to slip, the people closest to him are forced ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Navigating the Principalship

    Key Insights for New and Aspiring School Leaders

    by James P. Spillane, Rebecca Lowenhaupt ...
    In Navigating the Principalship, James P. Spillane and Rebecca Lowenhaupt look at the major challenges of the principal position, examining how new principals adapt to the role, set an instructional agenda, and build cooperation and collaboration. They focus in particular on the dilemmas that mark the principalship—the inevitable, complicated conflicts that arise from a clash of worthwhile values ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement

    Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change

    by James P. Spillane, Amy Franz Coldren ...
    This practical resource highlights the critical importance of diagnosis and design in the work of leading and managing for school improvement. The authors maintain that today’s school leaders and managers, under intense pressure to improve student learning, cannot simply adopt and implement pre-packaged reforms manufactured outside the school. Rather, to effect real reform, they must understand ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Challenging Standards

    Navigating Conflict and Building Capacity in the Era of the Common Core

    by Jonathan A. Supovitz, James Spillane ...
    The Common Core State Standards are at the center of the latest firestorm in American education reform. But this is not the nation’s first torrid experience with standards implementation. In Challenging Standards, Jonathan Supovitz and James Spillane bring together the collective knowledge of top education researchers who have both experienced and investigated education reform challenges in the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Schooling by Design

    Mission, Action, and Achievement

    by Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe ...
    Why, despite years of trying, have efforts to achieve lasting, effective school reform fallen short? What curricular and policy elements must be in place to move forward? How should the roles of teachers and education leaders be defined to best support the point of school?Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and other questions in Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Teaching Matters Most

    A School Leader’s Guide to Improving Classroom Instruction

    by Thomas M. McCann, Alan C. Jones, Gail A. Aronoff ...
    A laser-beam focus on improving instruction to improve learningSaying "teaching matters most" is easy, and seems obvious. Making it the top priority for school leaders and staff is not so easy—in fact, it′s messy. If we want to change how students write, compute, and think, then teachers must change how they teach. They must transform the old "assign-and-assess" model into engaging, compassionate, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Student-Centered Leadership

    by Viviane Robinson ...
    Series Book 15 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    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 ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Creating Significant Learning Experiences

    An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

    by L. Dee Fink ...
    “Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read.”—Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students DoSince the original publication of L. Dee Fink’s Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Educational Leadership & Organizational Behavior

    by Patti Chance ...
    Like the bestselling first edition, this introductory textbook succinctly presents concepts and theories of educational leadership and organizational behavior and immediately applies them to problems of practice. The second edition includes a new chapter on organizational culture, expanded overage of organizational structure, systems, and leadership, and additional case studies and scenarios ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Breakthrough

    Edited by Michael Fullan, Dr. Patricia Wonch Hill, Carmel Crévola ...
    This remarkable book defines a new framework for instructional reform using three core components—personalization, precision, and professional learning—to develop precise, data-driven classroom instruction personalized to every student. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Challenging the Whole Child

    Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership

    by Marge Scherer ...
    This special e-book collection of articles from Educational Leadership and other ASCD publications examines the kinds of challenges that best prepare students for college, the world of work, and life. The authors examine what excellence and high performance mean in various schools and settings around the world and explore how to make learning richer and more thought-provoking through both rigorous ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD