Series:

School Leadership & Management

2 total works

Cover of Educational Leadership and the Community
Evidence suggests that school improvement can be achieved if a school has a commitment to its community. By developing a deep and mutual relationship with people and organisations in the local community, your school gains not only information, knowledge and support but a sense of moral purpose.  Educational Leadership and the Community has been written in conjunction with the Community Education Development Centre (CEDC) and offers you different approaches to educational leadership, which are focused on community engagement and social regeneration. This practical book offers a reconsideration of the principles and purposes of your school's role in community education and leadership. Using research and case studies from around the world, Educational Leadership and the Community enables your school  to move from being 'a school in the community' to 'a school of the community'. It covers:education and schools in the community educational leadership and the community learning in the community school improvement social and economic regeneration.

Cover of Effective Learning in Schools
Do you feel that too much emphasis is being placed on school management and not enough on teaching? There is an increasing awareness that the only way that schools can respond to the challenges that face them is to move away from an emphasis on teaching and management to a new approach based on learning and leadership. These are the findings of a pioneering study which analysed trends in our understanding of how children and adults learn. Effective Learning in Schools is the first book to study an integrated approach to learning and leadership. Providing:proposed structures and processes to help schools become learning organisations

specific and detailed information to help schools make the transition
case studies which offer guidance on tried and tested strategies.

Backed up with case studies and examples to offer guidance of tried and tested strategies, Effective Learning in Schools is ideal reading for head teachers, deputy head teachers and students on education management courses.