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Compassionate Leadership for School Improvement and Renewal
This book equips educational leaders with the skills to lead with compassion, addressing the suffering in schools caused by events like the COVID-19 pandemic and social injustices. It aims to build leaders' capacity to foster compassion, create healing environments, and transform schools into supportive communities.
Leading Collaborative Learning
Leadership, collaborative learning, and student achievement – discover what works! This resource-rich book provides a straightforward, strategic path to achieving sustainable communities of collaborative learners. Research-proven inquiry techniques, vignettes, case studies and action-oriented protocols help you build strong learning relationships for high-impact student achievement. System leaders, principals and teachers learn to: Integrate diverse views and perspectives Build trust and hear every voice Leverage key resources and processes Build students’ cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal skills Use “Assessments-in-Action” to improve, monitor and sustain progress Build a collaborative culture through learning together Use this go-to guide to transform your school from a place of ‘good intentions’ to a center of intentional practice today!
Data Ethics
Data Ethics: How Educators Can Use Data Effectively and Responsibly describes the concept of data ethics, which has become an increasingly important topic in education practice, in part due to the proliferation of diverse data sources and the growing complexity of students. It is important for educators to know how to use data both effectively and appropriately. Educators are often faced with accountability pressures that may cause them to make decisions that are sometime problematic. This book describes what data ethics are and how new technologies, especially those based on artificial intelligence can challenge the appropriate use of data. It provides authentic scenarios that university instructors, professional development providers, in-service trainers, and individuals can use to help educators better understand data ethics.
Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers
Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers provides practical applications for those who conduct teacher classroom observations and provide feedback for growth. Leaders will learn strategies to support content and program area teachers with effective feedback practices. The book supplements effective instructional practices and includes strategies for useful modifications of mandated uniform observation instruments. The collection of thirteen chapters in this edited text includes: Supervisory theoriesDevelopmental and differentiated feedbackApplying human resource orientation to supervisionUsing classroom video for supervisionFeedback for equitable changeFeedback for culturally responsive instructionTeacher supervision in: STEM, literacy, early childhood education, gifted education, career and technical education, and virtual schoolsAfter reading Actionable Feedback to PK-12 Teachers, readers will be equipped with foundational knowledge as well as specific feedback strategies for supervising programs and content areas. Readers will develop skills in providing effective feedback that promotes teacher growth leading to instructional strategies that increases student learning.
The Rev. William "Bucky" Hunt, 1793-1868, of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee
William Hunt, Sr., father of William "Bucky" Hunt, may have been born in Virginia to a Thomas Hunt although it has not been proven. He left Virginia before 1790 and is found in South Carolina at 27 years of age in the 1790 census. He married Jane (maiden unknown) and they were the parents of 14 children which include the Reverend William "Bucky" Hunt who was born 18 Mar 1793 in the Pendleton District of South Carolina. "Bucky" married first, Margaret Finley who was born 17 Mar 1793 and died 20 Feb 1862. They were the parents of 10 children. He married second, Letitia Fuller. "Bucky" is buried at Tellico Plains, Tennessee. Descendants have lived in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Illinois, Texas, and elsewhere in the United States.
Instructional Leadership in the Content Areas
Co-published with University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), this textbook prepares aspiring educational leaders for the important and challenging task of supporting instruction in their schools. Instructional Leadership in the Content Areas equips leaders—who might not have content backgrounds that align with those of the teachers they supervise—with research-based practices and knowledge specific to a range of subject areas. Presenting over 20 problems-based cases at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and across seven areas of content, this book deepens knowledge of exemplary instruction, improves feedback dialogues, and helps leaders work effectively alongside teachers and instructional specialists. Rich with activities, resources, and discussion questions, this casebook provides a broad overview of instructional leadership and the tools for school leaders to improve and support classroom practices across all content areas in intentional ways that support career-long professional growth. Case facilitation notes are available here: www.routledge.com/9781138578845
