Leading Schools With Unique Populations

Author : Peter R. Litchka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475852929

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Leading Schools with Unique Populations by Peter R. Litchka Pdf

This book brings an international perspective of school leadership, but this time, examines how such leadership can have a positive impact on students considered to be “unique.” At one time, such students considered “unique” or “special” were often placed in special education programs and/or special schools to address their physical, emotional, and/or mental disabilities. Through legislation and changes in beliefs, many countries have changed approaches with these students from a “warehouse” approach, where such students were placed in special schools, to more of an inclusive approach where such students remain in their particular home school in an environment that was more inclusive and less restrictive. Over the past two decades or so, schools around the globe have been experiencing a significance increase in not only the number of “traditional” types of students needing special services, but a new generation of unique and diverse students, including those with: sexual identity and orientation differences; extreme social and economic inequities; cultural differences, arising from the significant increase in the number of migrant families fleeing unstable nations. Through their educational systems, many nations are moving from compliance and deficit models to support and prevention; they are becoming more inclusive of unique and special students. Thus, the school leader, if provided the opportunity and support, can have a significant impact on the education of and all students by linking their leadership to the acceptance and inclusion of all students, and to ensuring that all adults in the school become responsible for each student.

Author : Emily S. Fisher,Kelly S. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199355785

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Counseling Special Populations in Schools by Emily S. Fisher,Kelly S. Kennedy Pdf

Counseling Special Populations in Schools provides school-based mental health professionals with practical, specific strategies for counseling special populations of students who are at risk for academic, social, emotional, and behavioral problems in school. These special populations include students who are homeless, living in foster care, involved with the juvenile justice system, LGBTQ, pregnant or parenting, gifted, in military families, at-risk for school failure and dropout, and impacted by incarcerated parents. Each chapter focuses on one group of students, highlighting critical background information and providing evidence-informed counseling approaches and strategies to promote resilience and support student development. Chapters provide specific information about how to use basic counseling skills, as well as more advanced counseling techniques such as Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing, to address the needs and challenges of these special populations of students. This advanced-level counseling book is an excellent resource for mental health professionals and graduate students who want to be able to provide effective counseling services for all students.

Author : Jamie Victoria Barnes
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787751613

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Building Confidence, Resilience and Emotional Intelligence in Young Children by Jamie Victoria Barnes Pdf

Confidence, emotional intelligence and resilience are vital to children's mental wellbeing, and this book gives early years practitioners all the tools they need to promote these skills in young children. The book explores how three approaches - Growth Mindset, Forest School and Multiple Intelligences - can be key to building these skills. Growth Mindset focuses on talents being strengthened through hard work and determination; Forest School uses the physical natural world to enhance learning and development; and Multiple Intelligences focuses on equally valuing the many different kinds of intelligences there are. Each chapter includes activities and ideas to show how the different approaches can be used in everyday practice. Also included are reflective questions, quick tips and case studies. This book will inspire and empower readers to reflect on themselves, their practice, and how they can support each child as an individual to give them the best start in life.

Author : M.C. Kate Esposito,Anthony H. Normore
Publisher : IAP
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681231099

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Inclusive Practices and Social Justice Leadership for Special Populations in Urban Settings by M.C. Kate Esposito,Anthony H. Normore Pdf

Inclusive Practices and Social Justice Leadership for Special Populations in Urban Settings: A Moral Imperative is comprised of a collection of chapters written by educators who refuse to let the voices of dissent remain marginalized in our discussion of education in the 21st century education. Drawing from the authors’ extensive experience in educational research and practice, coupled with their commitment to inclusion of special populations and social justice they urge readers to examine how educational policies are produced for the least advantaged in our schools. Effective inclusionary practices most certainly benefit all students, including English language learners, those who face gender discrimination, those who are in the foster care system, and those who are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgendered. This collection presents a broader theoretical inclusive framework rooted in social justice: which we assert, offers the best practices for a greater number of students who are at risk of minimal academic success. This broader conceptualization of inclusive schools adds to extant discourses about students with exceptional needs and provides effective strategies school leaders operating from a social justice framework can implement to create more inclusive school environments for all students, especially those in urban centers. It is hoped that lessons learned will improve the preparation and practice of school leaders, thus improve educational outcomes for students from special populations.

Author : Kathleen M. Brown,Jennifer L. Benkovitz,Anthony J. Muttillo,Thad Urban
Publisher : IAP
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617351211

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Leading Schools of Excellence and Equity by Kathleen M. Brown,Jennifer L. Benkovitz,Anthony J. Muttillo,Thad Urban Pdf

The purpose of this empirical inquiry of state-recognized “Honor Schools of Excellence” was to explore how these schools of distinction are (or are not) promoting and supporting both academic excellence and systemic equity for all students. In Phase One, quantitative data were collected through equity audits to scan for and then document systemic patterns of equity and inequity across multiple domains of student learning and activities within 24 schools. In Phase Two, the 24 schools were ranked, based solely on minority achievement, and then separated into two types of schools, small gap (SG) schools and large gap (LG) schools. Through site visits (n=16) and the use of semi-structured interviews with principals, assistant principals, teachers, and parent leaders (n=80), qualitative data were then collected to document best practices and effective strategies that principals use to confront and change past practices anchored in open and residual racism and class discrimination. The data were analyzed through the theoretical framework of academic optimism. Three differences between the SG schools and the LG schools were found (encouraging academic achievement, offering instructional feedback, and expecting excellence). To truly honor excellence, we need to embrace equity. As such, in schools where principals support, model, and monitor a teamwork approach, a balanced approach, a strong sense of purpose, and an insistent disposition to assure that all students are served well and that all are encouraged to perform at their highest level, the outcomes of interest are better.

Author : Bruce Anthony Jones,Anthony Rolle
Publisher : IAP
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681233697

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Leading Schools in Challenging Times by Bruce Anthony Jones,Anthony Rolle Pdf

Over the past 30 years our public school system has received an unprecedented amount of attention as this concerns methods of school reform and policy strategies for bringing about this reform. During the 1980s the emphasis of school reform was on transparency through school-community partnerships. Business and philanthropy, for example, became involved with issues of schooling that was unheard of prior to this period. The 1980s also gave rise to issues of school finance and student performance that went beyond traditional views that tended to focus on finance “adequacy” to views that focused more on school finance arrangements that would lead to actual “equitable outcomes” in student performance. The 1990s witnessed the emergence of the comprehensive school reform movement whereby curriculum outsourcing occurred at rates that had never occurred before. With this movement, the role of teachers and school leaders in the creation of school curriculum diminished as school districts increasingly purchased vendor-related curriculum packages, which included teacher and leader training modules and methods of curriculum assessment. On the heels of the increasing tendency of school districts to outsource school curriculum to curriculum-vendors came a rise in demands for school accountability and school outcomes. This was particularly evident with the passage of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) (2001). NCLB was also developed within a political context that called for demands in the academic improvement of schools and school districts that housed historically disenfranchised students. These demands were particularly important as the nation experienced and continues to experience dramatic increases in student racial and ethnic diversity. This volume, entitled, Leading Schools in Challenging Times: Eye to the Future, discusses varying types of school leadership in the context of key topics that have been at the center of on-going school reform in the United States. These topics include challenges, opportunities and issues associated with our administrator and teacher leadership pipeline, preparation and development; leadership and school finance reform, leadership and changing student and population demographics; leadership and the role of community; issues of leadership, policy, public accountability and school performance outcomes. The authors also explicate these issues with a view to the future and the status of leadership in our public school system.

Author : Rausch, Meredith A.,Gallo, Laura L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799873211

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Strengthening School Counselor Advocacy and Practice for Important Populations and Difficult Topics by Rausch, Meredith A.,Gallo, Laura L. Pdf

School counselors often struggle to feel confident in delivering effective assistance to students due to a variety of reasons that currently do not have enough research or information developed. This leads to a struggle for counselors to adequately address tough and relevant issues. With these issues remaining unaddressed, or addressed less effectively, there is a concern that school counselors cannot mitigate these issues due to not being adequately informed. This can lead to a lifetime of consequences for students. Strengthening School Counselor Advocacy and Practice for Important Populations and Difficult Topics presents emerging research that seek to answer the tough and often unaddressed questions, target present-day issues of student populations, and prepare school counselors to feel confident and competent in their counseling and advocacy practice. These chapters, using the newest information available, will address these concerns and provide the best counseling work possible for underserved populations. While covering research on counseling for students with chronic illnesses, mixed-statuses, family issues, minority students, LGBTQ+ youth, and more, this book is ideal for school counselors, counseling educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in school counseling and meeting the needs of diverse and important populations of students.

Author : Dwight L. Carter,Mark White
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506384320

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Leading Schools in Disruptive Times by Dwight L. Carter,Mark White Pdf

A school leadership model for surviving hyper-change From social media to evolving safety issues to constant school reform, today’s school leaders face unprecedented disruption. How can educators prepare students for a globalized world when many institutions are not ready for the constantly changing 21st century? With an eye on the past and a vision for the future, Carter and White draw the blueprint for adapting schools to ever-changing times. • A comprehensive history of disruption in American schools as a lens for understanding accelerated change • Practical exercises and real-life examples for reshaping education in the 21st century • A grounded examination of radical disruptions schools will face in the years to come

Author : Melissa A Martinez,Sylvia Méndez-Morse
Publisher : IAP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648023590

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Latinas Leading Schools by Melissa A Martinez,Sylvia Méndez-Morse Pdf

As the first scholarly book of its kind, this edited volume brings together educational leadership scholars and practitioners from across the country whose research focuses on the unique contributions and struggles that Latinas across the diaspora face while leading in schools and districts. The limited though growing scholarship on Latina administrators indicates their assets, particularly those rooted in their sociocultural, linguistic, and racial/ethnic backgrounds, their cultura, are undervalued in research and practice (Hernandez & Murakami, 2016; Martinez, Rivera, & Marquez, 2019; Mendez-Morse, 2000; Mendez-Morse, Murakami, Byrne-Jimenez, & Hernandez, 2015). At the same time, Latina administrators have reported challenges related to: isolation (Hernandez & Murakami, 2016), a lack of mentoring (Mendez-Morse, 2004), resistance from those who expect a more linear, hierarchical form of leadership (Gonzales, Ulloa, & Munoz, 2016), balancing varying professional and personal roles and aspirations (Murakami-Ramalho, 2008), as well as racism, sexism, and ageism (Bagula, 2016; Martinez, Marquez, Cantu, & Rocha, 2016). The impetus for this book is to acknowledge, explore, theorize, and expand our understanding of how Latinas’ success as school and district leaders is informed by such gifts, including their prioritizing of familia and communidad, relationship building, reciprocity, and advocacy, in the face of such challenges. Thus, this volume covers four topical areas: 1) Testimonies and reflections from the field/Testimonios y reflexiones del campo, 2) Leading in relationship, comadrismo, with and for community/Liderazgo en relación, comadrismo, con y para la omunidad, 3) School community leaders(hip)/Lider(azgo) escolar y comunitario 4) Learning from the experiences of others/Aprendiendo de las experiencias de otras.

Author : Mark White,Dwight L. Carter
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071849859

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Leading Schools in Disruptive Times by Mark White,Dwight L. Carter Pdf

From surviving to thriving during constant disruption The pandemic has been the biggest disruption in school history, and this will be a decade of monumental change. As you race to stay ahead, this blueprint for leadership transformation walks you through the decision-making process. Features include: • Practical strategies for identifying and responding to disruptions • An overview of the CAT framework: coping, adjusting, transforming • Real-life stories from exceptional educational leaders • Tips on guiding teachers, staff, and students through lessons learned in the pandemic • Activities, scenarios, and practical actions to lead through complex topics including remote learning, social-justice issues, education reforms, generational differences, and social media

Author : James Ryan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402012438

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Leading Diverse Schools by James Ryan Pdf

This book explores the challenges that school administrators face in ethnically diverse contexts. Based on an empirical study, it shows how principals do or do not promote inclusive practices in their schools. The various chapters cover principal perceptions of, and responses to, racism and antiracism, school community relationships, and difference. Also addressed are administrators' efforts to learn about diversity and to educate others in their school communities about it. This volume is the first of its kind to specifically target school administrators and ethnic diversity. While collections of essays and individual articles have explored general and specific aspects of diversity, no book to date has targeted leadership and ethnical diversity specifically, is supported by empirical data, or follows a consistent theme throughout. This book will be of interest to school administrators, prospective administrators, teachers, graduate students, academics and all others who are concerned about education, leadership, diversity and inclusion.

Author : Urban High School Reform Initiative (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Education, Secondary
ISBN : UOM:39015019227134

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The Urban High School Reform Initiative Final Report by Urban High School Reform Initiative (U.S.) Pdf

Author : S. David Brazer,Scott C. Bauer,Bob L. Johnson, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351708814

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Leading Schools to Learn, Grow, and Thrive by S. David Brazer,Scott C. Bauer,Bob L. Johnson, Jr. Pdf

Leading Schools to Learn, Grow, and Thrive provides a unique approach to preparing prospective education leaders by combining theory, research, and practice. Grounded in organizational and leadership theory, this book helps leaders understand their schools and districts from multiple perspectives and develop their own leadership aspirations, approaches, and missions. Well-known authors Brazer, Bauer, and Johnson present authentic practical problems, illuminate them with appropriate theory and research, and give readers opportunities to solve common puzzles as a means to grow wisdom about how to lead, especially when confronted with complex challenges. This book is an invaluable resource for aspiring leaders, one that readers will reference as they proceed through their leadership coursework and keep close at hand throughout their leadership career. Special Features: eResources—complementary resources for instructors and students, including a set of authentic role-playing scenarios accessible from https://www.routledge.com/9781138039100 Vignettes—introduce the reader to real-life dilemmas that impact teaching and learning and provide a central reference point for discussions of theory, research, and practice. Theory and Research—frameworks and examples inform common leadership challenges, helping readers expand their knowledge and experience base to explore situations similar to their own contexts. Puzzles—real-world situations test knowledge and provide opportunities to practice ideas for effective leadership. Thought Partner Discussions (TPCs) and Extended Web Activities (EWAs)—additional thought activities, opportunities for reflection, and suggestions for discussion provoke puzzle solving.

Author : Christopher Day,Alma Harris,Mark Hadfield,Harry Tolley,John Beresford
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335231362

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Leading Schools in Times of Change by Christopher Day,Alma Harris,Mark Hadfield,Harry Tolley,John Beresford Pdf

Leadership of schools in changing times is fraught with opportunities and challenges. Leaders are expected to manage competing interests, to create conditions which form the foundation for lifelong learning, to sustain the motivation and morale of staff and to raise achievement levels of all students. Yet to date, there are few texts which examine how this is done successfully. This book seeks to meet this need. It considers effective leadership and management of schools from the perspectives of headteachers, teachers, students, ancillaries, governors and parents in a variety of reputationally good schools of different phases, locations and size. Through a mixture of participants' accounts and analysis of leadership theory, this highly readable book reveals a number of characteristics of headteachers who are both effective and successful: the centrality of personal values, people-centred leadership and the ability to manage tensions and dilemmas. The authors propose a post-transformational theory that reflects the complexity of leadership behaviour in the twenty-first century, suggesting that reliance upon rational, managerialist theory as the basis for training is inappropriate for the values-led contingency model that represents successful school leadership.

Author : Urban High School Reform Initiative (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Education, Urban
ISBN : UCLA:L0056429038

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Final Report by Urban High School Reform Initiative (U.S.) Pdf