Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools

Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools
Author: Becki Cohn-Vargas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Educational leadership
ISBN: 9781071835791

Draws from a wide research base documenting best practices for identity safety, including inclusive classroom practices, positive teacher-student relations, diverse and challenging tasks, and the use of student diversity as a resource Includes interactive activities and tools for professional development, linking strategies to theory Offers guiding principles to help leaders stay true to the core values of equity and identify safety, equipping leaders with the adaptive expertise needed to confront evolving challenges Covers professional growth models for teachers, counselors, campus supervisors, and other school staff Tackles the difficult issue of equitable data collection; shares principles, systems, and best practices for assessment that take bias, stakeholder voice, and universal design into account.

The Leader in Me

The Leader in Me
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 147110446X

Children in today's world are inundated with information about who to be, what to do and how to live. But what if there was a way to teach children how to manage priorities, focus on goals and be a positive influence on the world around them? The Leader in Meis that programme. It's based on a hugely successful initiative carried out at the A.B. Combs Elementary School in North Carolina. To hear the parents of A. B Combs talk about the school is to be amazed. In 1999, the school debuted a programme that taught The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleto a pilot group of students. The parents reported an incredible change in their children, who blossomed under the programme. By the end of the following year the average end-of-grade scores had leapt from 84 to 94. This book will launch the message onto a much larger platform. Stephen R. Covey takes the 7 Habits, that have already changed the lives of millions of people, and shows how children can use them as they develop. Those habits -- be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw -- are critical skills to learn at a young age and bring incredible results, proving that it's never too early to teach someone how to live well.

EQ + IQ = Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools

EQ + IQ = Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools
Author: Maurice J. Elias
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2002-11-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483360660

"Schools cannot teach character . . . School have to create an environment that models and promotes character development, and then they have to allow the children to ′catch′ character from the behavior of the adults and students around them." —From Chapter 1 by James P. Comer Let today′s educational leaders show you how to create a safe, healthy, and successful classroom community! Combining emotional intelligence (EQ) with academic intelligence (IQ) is the essential key to developing knowledgeable, caring, healthy, and successful students in today′s troubled world. Social-emotional skills often are not taught at home, but they are in fact the crucial connection that enables students to master and retain content knowledge while also creating a classroom atmosphere filled with proficient, civic-minded students with sound judgment and problem-solving skills that will last a lifetime. In this dynamic book, today′s educational leaders offer their best ideas for building school communities that are safe, smart, caring, successful, and emotionally intelligent. Key topics include: Transforming the Lives of Children (James P. Comer) Leadership for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (Mary Utne O′Brien, Roger P. Weissberg, Timothy P. Shriver) How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning (Ronald S. Brandt) A Vision of Schools with Heart and Spirit (Linda Lantieri) Institutionalizing Programming for Social and Emotional Learning (Linda Bruene Butler, Jeffrey S. Kress, Jacqueline A. Norris) Implementing a Social and Emotional Learning Program (Carol Apacki)

Identity Safe Classrooms

Identity Safe Classrooms
Author: Dorothy M. Steele
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452230900

This practitioner-focused guide to creating identity-safe classrooms presents four categories of core instructional practices: Child-centered teaching ; Classroom relationships ; Caring environments ; Cultivating diversity. The book presents a set of strategies that can be implemented immediately by teachers. It includes a wealth of vignettes taken from identity-safe classrooms as well as reflective exercises that can be completed by individual teachers or teacher teams.

Learning for Leadership

Learning for Leadership
Author: Eleanor Drago-Severson
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-08-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412994403

Prepare education leaders to support adult professional growth with this comprehensive guide! Help foster an understanding of adult development that enables education leaders to support professional learning—or build capacity—across schools and districts with this one-of-a-kind resource. Based on adult developmental theory and filled with practical, actionable advice as well as takeaways, you’ll learn to: Design and implement action plans based on a learning-oriented model of school leadership and capacity building: Teaming, Providing Leadership Roles, Collegial Inquiry, and Mentoring Build robust and effective professional learning initiatives that increases student achievement Help leaders bridge theory and practice with first-hand case study analyses

Compassionate Leadership for School Belonging

Compassionate Leadership for School Belonging
Author: Kathryn Riley
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2022-04-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787359565

In Compassionate Leadership for School Belonging, Kathryn Riley draws on 40 years of international research and professional practice to show how schools can be places of safety and fulfilment, even in the most difficult of circumstances. When belonging is a school’s guiding principle, more young people at all levels experience a sense of connectedness and friendship, perform better academically, and come to believe in themselves; their teachers feel more professionally fulfilled, their families more accepted. The originality of this highly readable book lies in its scope. It offers international analysis from the OECD alongside insights from the author’s extensive research in schools, powerfully supported by observational vignettes and drawings from the children, young people and teachers who have been her co-researchers. The book reveals patterns of dislocation, disaffection and exclusion, and highlights the points of intervention in policy and practice needed across school systems to create the conditions for school belonging. The methodologies, concepts and research tools offered can be used by practitioners and researchers in their own contexts, and to guide school leaders towards creating their own places of belonging. This is an urgent book of hope, offering knowledge so that schools can open up possibilities to all children and young people in an increasingly uncertain world.

The School Principal

The School Principal
Author: Theodore J. Kowalski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-08-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135156859

Over the past two decades, efforts to improve schools have significantly modified role expectations for principals. Today, school-level administrators are expected to be both visionary leaders and competent managers. Based on the conviction that administration is an amalgam of leadership and management, The School Principal emphasizes the need for practitioners to apply conceptual skills to make "what to do" decisions, to apply technical skills to make "how to do" decisions, and to apply relational skills to engage in democratic decision making. Kowalski frames the book with a discussion of the nature of schools, the roles of principals, and their need to improve schools. The book then provides a balanced treatment of leadership and management, covering issues of personal behavior, instructional leadership, relationship building issues, finances, facilities, personnel management, pupil services, and maintaining safe schools. The text closes with discussion of the vital aspects of practice for contemporary principals, addressing problem solving, collaborative change strategies, and personal commitment to being a principal. Special Features: Vignettes introduce the subject matter in the context of common challenges faced by practitioners. Knowledge-Based Questions and Skill-Based Activities prompt readers to engage with and reflect on the chapter content. The School Principal aligns with the Educational Leadership Consortium Council (ELCC) Standards. Treating principals as concurrently visionary leaders and competent managers, this excellent text addresses the needs of aspiring and practicing principals, providing the tools to build effective and efficient schools.

Engage and Empower

Engage and Empower
Author: Mary Amanda Stewart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475863071

This edited book provides ready-to-use engaging curriculum units for an integrated approach to teaching English language arts and U.S. history in grades 4-12. The purpose is to promote social justice and activism while building critical literacies students need in the 21st Century. Through implementing the curriculum units in this book, teachers and students can challenge inequities and promote activism. A central goal of this project is to represent and empower marginalized students. The traditional curriculum presents one view, one story as the only story, and one people as the norm. This book intentionally centers the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and other marginalized communities. In addition to expanding the curriculum to include all people, educating students about issues of injustice in the U.S. will enable them to enact change. Additionally, this book serves to educate all students by exposure to central issues in past and present society. By creating space for a multicultural perspective, this curriculum may reduce the friction that occurs when encountering those whose lived experiences and perspectives do not align with one’s own. By educating students about the privileges they have not examined, teachers can foster empathy and empower allies.