Proactive-New


	Your Price	$54.95


	28-ISBN:1-885432-38-0

Unbridled Spirit: Best Practices in Educational Administration--The 2006 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA)

NEW Series Volume

Unbridled Spirit: Best Practices in Educational Administration--The 2006 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA)

Editors: Frederick L. Dembowski, Southeastern Louisiana UniversityLinda Lemasters, George Washington University
New refereed research on best practices for administration, instructional leadership, and school management skills

Designing principal instruction, improving teaching, better ways of training principals in the field
This 455-page volume contains 47 original papers on techniques that have proven effective for school leaders and those who train them, ranging from principal skills to distance learning. It is divided into sections devoted to administrator programs, instruction, and new ways of working with practitioners in the field. All papers contained in this book are original, peer-reviewed work.

Table of contents

PART 1—INVITED CHAPTERS
A Challenge for Systemic Change: The President’s Message
Gary E. Martin

Expanding the Knowledge Base: Socially Just Theory in Educational Leadership Programs
Genevieve Brown and Beverly J. Irby

Part-Time Faculty and Distance Education: Quandaries in Educational Administration’s Swamp
Theodore J. Kowalski

Best Practice: Instructional Leadership Through Teacher Evaluation
Louis Wildman

PART 2—BEST PRACTICES IN DESIGNING PROGRAMS
Best Practices in School Leadership Training and Development
Kathleen Campbell and Betty Porter

Preparing Scholar-Practitioner Leaders: A Suggested Model of Best Practices for Dimensions of Change
Gary Clarke and Sandra Harris

Cultural Proficiency: A Moral Imperative for Educational Administration?
Richard A. Gregory and Carl L. Hoffmeyer

Best Practices in Preparation of School Leaders: Recommendations Based on an Analysis of the Levine Report
Jess House and William Bozeman

Transforming the Future of Principal Development and Support: An Integrated Certification and Induction Approach
Erika Hunt and Norman Durflinger

Caveat Lector: A Critical Analysis of the Philosophical and Epistemological Assumptions Underlying ‘Best Practices’
Eileen S. Johnson

Hope Replenished: Exceptional Scholarship Strides in Educational Administration
Carol A. Mullen

The Preparation of Urban Educational Leaders: Results from a Practitioner Research Study
Douglas R. Davis

Creating Connectivity: An Urban Collaboratory for Preparation and Practice in Educational Leadership
Phyllis Durden

Assessing and Selecting Future School Leaders
James O. McDowelle, William A. Rouse and Harold Holloman

Stormy Weather: Replacing the Exodus of Principals from Urban Schools
Charles P. Mitchel and Lourdes Z. Mitchel

Parent and Community Outreach: Profiles of Community Internship Experiences
Kathleen D. Rockwood

Higher Education and School District Partnerships: Creating a Best Practice Environment for Field Experience
Marc Shelton, Stephen Cathers and Larry Tew

Best Practices: Statewide Collaborations to Strengthen School Leadership
Jenny S. Tripses

Defining Moments: The Transformative Potential of Professional Learning Communities
Virginia Doolittle and Ellen Trombetta

Ethics in Principal Preparation Programs: A Move Towards Best Practice
Stacey Edmonson and Alice Fisher

From Practicing Pedagogy to Embracing Andragogy: How to Switch “Gogy”s to develop a “Self-As-Principal” Voice in Principal Preparation Classrooms
Mack T. Hines III

Best Practice for Ethical Educational Administration: Non-dominated Discourse
Kelly McKerrow and Erin Bullerdieck

PART 3—BEST PRACTICES IN TEACHING
Case Pedagogy and Standards-Based Teaching
Brenda F. Graham and Pamela C. Cannamore

A Teambuilding Model for the Educational Leadership Classroom
Patricia A.Marcellino

The Role of the School Leader in Teaching Reading to Limited English Proficient Students: A Professional Development Model for Administrators and Teachers in Rural Schools
Linda M. Creighton

Recounting Best Practice: Utilizing Videoconferencing and Blackboard to Teach the Field Experience Seminar
Janell Drone

Are You Talking too Much? Considerations for Best Practice
Michael B. Gilbert

Text Coding: A Reading Strategy “Best Practice”
Linda J. Searby

Education Administration Professor’s Role to Assure that Preparation Programs Address Validity and Critique Skills
Charles M. Achilles and Jeremy D. Finn

Using Student Feedback to Improve Faculty Effectiveness in the Classroom
Casey Brown, Julie Combs and Sherion Jackson

Assessing Faculty Consensus on the Quality of Student Work
Connie Fulmer, Dorothy Garrison-Wade, Frank Bingham and Ken Reiter

Predictors of Success among Graduate Students of Introductory Statistics and Subsequent Interventions against Student Failure
Marcia L. Lamkin

PART 4—BEST PRACTICES FOR FIELD PRACTITIONERS
Implementing Best Practices in the Classroom: What do Administrators Need to do to Change Teacher Behavior?
Nancy Carlson and Jane Irons

Tenured Teacher Dismissal for Incompetence and the Law: Administrators, What are you Afraid of?
Marguerita K. DeSander and Michael F. DiPaola

Administrative Effectiveness in Making Classrooms Safe: Observations in 97 School Buildings and Their Implications for Practice
Vivian Hopp Gordon

Understanding Leadership Behaviors of Principals
Shirley A. Johnson and Steve Busch

Best Practice: The Role of Staff Development in the School Improvement Process
Ronald A. Lindahl

Project-Based Instruction: Eight Interview Questions You Should Ask Special Education Teacher Candidates and How to Score Them
Joe Nichols and Joan Henley

The Principal’s Role in the Interview Process: A Best Practice
Charles R. Waggoner, Douglas Main and Robin Wells

Leadership and Management in the Relationship Between Administrators, School Counselors and Local Decision Making Bodies: A Kentucky Perspective
Bill Wesley, Neal Gray, Paul Erickson, Robert Biggin, Nancy Alspach, Kathryn Hughes and Tom Bonny

Principal Selection Processes: Best Practice for Superintendents
Thomas A. Kersten

Best Practice about Bullying: What Counselors and Teachers Know and What Principals Should Know
Rebecca A. Robles-Piña, Dianne Reed and Barbara Polnick

The Impact on Instructional Practice of Participating in a Book Study Group
Judith A. Zimmerman

No Child Left Behind: Implications as Viewed by Arkansas Superintendents and Patrons—A Brief Review of the Role of American Education over Time
Carleton R. Holt, Les Carnine and Marsha Jones

The Impact of Florida’s A+ Plan for Education
Thomas Valesky and Cecil Carter

Principals Leadership Academy: Creating a School Culture of Continuous Improvement
Lloyd C. Kilmer, Dean L. Halverson and Georgianna Koenig

The P-12 Educational Administration Best Practices Improvement Spiral Model
Joseph Pacha and Lynne Curry

The Professional Development Needs of Practicing Principals
Pamela Salazar

The Administrator Development Academy: Adding Intensity to the Preparation Program: The Next Step to Excellence
Ted A. Zigler, James Koschoreck and Steve McCafferty

ISBN:1-885432-38-0, 8 1/2x11,August, 2006, hardcover library binding, 455pp, Subject & Author Index: Price: $54.95.