School Management

Any group of people expected to work synergistically needs a system that structures their interactions. That system is “governance.” The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance takes a first principles approach to exploring the ways governance structures affect the humans living under them (and vice versa), with a special focus on how human psychology interacts with the structures that facilitate our interaction with other people.

Unlock Your Academic Potential and Thrive in High School! Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by schoolwork? Do you want to excel in high school while still enjoying life? Of course, the answer is a big old YES! We all know high school can be tough, that's why the hacks you'll find inside the High School Study Guide will be your ultimate roadmap. Whether you’re a freshman navigating the new hallways or a senior eyeing college, these proven strategies will transform your academic journey. Inside this guide, you'll find: 25 game-changing study and life hacks: Research-backed strategies for...

This audiobook is a compilation of my experiences as a school leader. Enjoy the stories, tips, and strategies to handle all that comes your way in your position of leadership. Take it and use it as your own! Survive and thrive and do the best you can for your students and staff!

Students need boundaries and guidance. Educators and school administrators need a game plan. This book provides both to steer the classroom and kids forward positively, purposefully and happily into their academic and life journey. Moreover, the helpful and wholesome guidelines herein also cultivate good attitudes and establish healthy behaviors to encourage proper communication, purposeful living, healthy eating, avoidance of harmful substances and alert students to choose their friends wisely. PAUL F. DAVIS is an international educator (licensed in Florida and California) who has taught ...

When young teacher Paul Flynn arrives at St. Cupid’s, a secondary school situated in the heart of London’s East End, he encounters a daunting and alien world: poverty-stricken children, incompetent managers and teachers who are wilder than their students. After some hilarious mishaps, he soon settles in, finding that he has mastered the art of getting the kids to behave, an achievement most of his colleagues find impossible. He's become a successful survivor in a world of surreal lunacy, with teaching a secondary consideration to enjoying life. However, in the 1990s, disaster strikes: ...

Andrae captures insight and pearls of wisdom from the military’s most senior leaders, calling them Procedures, Techniques, and Rules. These strategies, if applied with discipline, can provide efficiency to your day-to-day routine and increase your overall well-being. Procedures, Techniques, Rules... I Wish I Learned in School is a resource tool that offers bottom-line instructions on a range of habits that have proved beneficial to our nation’s leading authorities. Andrae has taken his experiences from sitting down to talk with leaders, such as former Secretary of Defense, Donald ...

Between the theories of business school and the real world of business, there is still a gap—one that can only be filled by experience, helped by the knowledge of someone who has already done it. Over a lifetime as one of the world's most influential business leaders, Mark McCormack gathered more insights than could ever fit in one book: here he has distilled the strategies, techniques and wisdom that everyone needs to get organised, get ahead and gain and keep the competitive edge.

Innovation influences the market and its operators, especially about competition conditions. One of the most significant technological advances relates to the possibility of capturing a huge amount of information and processing them rapidly: two of the main features that make up the phenomenon known as big data. This not only entails the emergence of specialized operators in these activities, but also makes a "data economy" possible.

Kaizen, skills, integration: three words that 20 years ago didn't mean anything, today they mean a lot. Our economy and society rotate around these concepts. Which role do they play in our life? Furthermore, we all know that the globalization is making our system changing so fast that we literally have to run! And who wins the marathon at the end? The business with the best players. The most motivated, the most skilled-matching team.

Are you struggling to be an effective teacher? Do your kids walk all over you, turning your classroom into a chaotic whirlwind of chatter? The truth is, the majority of new educators have faced similar challenges with classroom disruption and low student motivation. You'd like to be friendly with your class, but you can't let the kids walk all over you. There must be some way to harmonize such tensions, some way to lead your class with the conviction of a general but the gentleness of a scholar. This audiobook will teach you how to be an effective teacher.

This book focuses on what makes a successful CEO and the paths to becoming one in today's global economy. Chapters in the book include insights by 20 top CEOs - one from each G20 country - gathered from an extensive global qualitative research project. Through seven easy-to-digest "master classes" that demystify the role of the 21st-century CEO, the authors present their findings in an accessible, conversational style that serves as a step-by-step guide for those who aspire to become CEOs and develop essential character traits, experience, and skills required of the role.

Turning Around a Troubled School is the story of a very public leadership challenge in reversing the fortunes of a failing government school in the affluent eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The school population had crashed from over 1,000 students to just over 250, and the school had been given only 12 months to turn around, otherwise it would be closed. Peter Hutton, a new principal with a bold vision, took on the task. Eight years later, the population had grown to over 1,000, and the school was recognized internationally as one of the most innovative in the world.

Little Things Matter: Management Lessons From Exceptional School Leaders identifies the threads, patterns, and practices that separate the exceptional school leader from their less effective peers. Sean Cain and Mike Laird, authors of The Fundamental 5 and The Fundamental 5 Revisited, share the knowledge and insights gleaned from observing, studying, and collaborating with exceptional school leaders from across the country. School leaders who put processes in place to ensure that teaching and learning is priority one and that their students consistently outperform similar peers and compete,...

Mark McCormack reveals the secret of his success to key business issues such as analysing yourself and others, sales, negotiation, time management, decision-making and communication. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School fills the gaps between a business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day experience of running a business and managing people. It shares the business skills, techniques and wisdom gleaned from 25 years of experience.

The trick to moving from your teen years into adulthood isn't about having all the answers—it's knowing what questions to ask. This book is your go-to guide for all things grown-up and the handbook for those life questions you haven't even thought to ask.

The underlying classroom management themes of accountability, maturity, independence, personal responsibility, and intrinsic motivation are all there and weave their way throughout the entirety of the book. Together, they form a simple, unique, and sometimes contrarian approach to classroom management that anyone can do. Whether you're an elementary, middle, or high school teacher, this book will give you the strategies, skills, and know-how to turn any group of students into the motivated, well-behaved class you love teaching.

No One Cares About Your Career Like You Do! You must run your career as if it were your business and you are the CEO. If you want to get and keep the job you want, you need to change how you think about your career. This book will change how you think about your career. Instead of relying on others or just thinking about your career as a series of jobs, it will teach you how to look at yourself as a business and to use business tools to boost your career to where you want it to go. Tom Sheppard successfully used these techniques to rise to the level of a senior executive in a Fortune 500 ...

The Critical Skills You Need to Succeed in the Twenty-First Century Today, it’s harder than ever to compete in a more competitive job market. It’s harder to get ahead, and it’s harder to keep up with rapidly changing technology. So what’s the secret to success in our careers? How do we or our children become productive and thriving citizens in a modern democratic society? “WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed” outlines the critical skills essential for success in a career as well as in everyday living - skills not typically taught directly in high school or college....

Turning your great idea into reality always feels like the most difficult step in getting your start-up off the ground - until you realize that nobody beyond your family and close friends knows about your amazing product or service. This difficult lesson evades many aspiring entrepreneurs: The success of your startup is limited by the number of potential customers who know about it.

Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. Game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion.