Download or read book The Relationship Between Urban Principal Competence and Educational Goals and Outcomes cBrenda Pridgen written by Brenda Pridgen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 21st century, school accountability initiatives have become more evident than ever. As such, principals must be poised with competencies to ensure educational goals and outcomes are met. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between principal competence and valued educational goals and objectives. The study is a quantitative correlational design with a sample of 4,273 urban principals from National Center for Education Statistics data emanating from a sampling frame of 82,802 traditional public school principals, and utilizing a stratified probability sampling research design. The Public Schools Principal Questionnaire (1993--94) was used to gather information on key study variables. The questionnaire consisted of dichotomous, structured, semi-structured and Likert scale questions. The following statistical tests were used: descriptive statistics, chi-square, crosstabulation, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Statistically significant results were revealed between principalship competence (e.g. degree, certification, educational leadership, educational administration, etc.); principalship demographics (e.g., race, gender, degree, locale, etc.) and educational goals and outcomes (e.g., school governance, teacher professional development, principal professional development, best practices, etc.) necessary for urban principals. Urban principals have definite perceptions about school governance specific to students, stakeholder influence, teacher and principal professional development, and best practices. The implications of the findings suggest that greater attention be given to the relationship of urban principal competence and valued educational goals and outcomes. With new and stringent accountability systems, principals will be required to take an active role in the management of instruction, curriculum, and assessment at their schools. Urban principals must engage in meaningful professional development to ensure optimal educational management, while ensuring teachers are held responsible for changing instructional activities and raising expectations for achievement regardless of the school's locale or the student's background. There is a need for urban principals to focus on the process of organizational change with a focus on increased collaboration with parents to improve student achievement. Further, urban principals are challenged to determine what actions are required to facilitate the transition of their schools into professional learning communities. The study has significant implications for principal preparation programs as to the qualities necessary for potential or practicing urban principals. Programs must consider the delicate balance between competencies expected, skills taught, as well as, dispositions of the potential or practicing urban administrators. The findings and implications for practice are critical for both pre-service and in-service development of administrators. Recommendations for future studies suggest research be conducted to: examine results verifying improved student achievement in the State of Maryland and Baltimore City in particular; determine specific principal professional development experiences or training that can be attributed to increased competencies for principals specific to student achievement; determine how principalship competencies of urban principals differ from that of other locales, and to what degree current principal preparation schools and the associated competencies are congruent with ISLLC standards and the degree these competencies translate to performance based systems. -- Abstract.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
Download or read book Housing Senior Citizens written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blacks in the Marine Corps written by Henry I. Shaw, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this monograph was published almost 30 years ago, then History and Museums Director Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons wrote: "Today's generation of Marines serve in a fully integrated Corps where blacks constitute almost one-fifth of our strength. Black officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates are omnipresent, their service so normal a part of Marine life that it escapes special notice. The fact that this was not always so and that as little as 34 years ago (in 1941) there were no black Marines deserves explanation." This statement holds true for this edition of Blacks in the Marine Corps, which has already gone through several previous reprintings. What has occurred since the first edition of Blacks in the Marine Corps has been considerable scholarship and additional writing on the subject that deserve mention to a new generation of readers, both in and outside the Corps. First and foremost is Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.'s Integration of the Armed Forces 1940-1965 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1981) that documents the Armed Forces efforts as part of the Defense Studies Series. The volume is an excellent history of a social topic often difficult for Service historical offices to deal with.
Download or read book Signs and Society written by Richard J. Parmentier and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major voice in contemporary semiotic theory offers a new perspective on potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology. In Signs and Society, noted anthropologist Richard J. Parmentier demonstrates how an appreciation of signs helps us better understand human agency, meaning, and creativity. Inspired by the foundational work of C. S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, and drawing upon key insights from neighboring scholarly fields, Parmentier develops an array of innovative conceptual tools for ethnographic, historical, and literary research. Parmentier’s concepts of “transactional value,” “metapragmatic interpretant,” and “circle of semiosis,” for example, illuminate the foundations and effects of such diverse cultural forms and practices as economic exchanges on the Pacific island of Palau, Pindar’s Victory Odes in ancient Greece, and material representations of transcendence in ancient Egypt and medieval Christianity. Other studies complicate the separation of emic and etic analytical models for such cultural domains as religion, economic value, and semiotic ideology. Provocative and absorbing, these fifteen pioneering essays blaze a trail into anthropology’s future while remaining firmly rooted in its celebrated past.
Download or read book The Redskins Encyclopedia written by Michael Richman and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Washington Redskins.
Download or read book Perinatal and Pediatric Bereavement in Nursing and Other Health Professions written by Beth Perry Black and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive, state-of-the-art resource for professionals who provide bereavement care to families when a baby or older child dies.. Culling the most important new evidence from scholars and practitioners worldwide, it links theoretical knowledge and clinical practice recommendations to fill a gap in the current literature. The text is distinguished by its provision of different and even competing perspectives that address the complexities of the tragic human experience of perinatal and pediatric death. Expert contributors from the fields of nursing and other health professions disseminate new theoretical approaches and reexamine current concepts in light of new research. They discuss the theoretical underpinnings of perinatal and pediatric bereavement, examine current thought on the dimensions of loss, deliver evidence-based clinical interventions, and offer the perspective of grieving families in regard to their experiences and needs.
Download or read book Law and Society written by Steven Vago and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is fi lled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully updated. This edition includes an expanded discussion of the law and First Nations people, recent developments impacting LGBTIQ2S persons, and persons with disabilities and a new section on civil procedures. Each chapter is structured similarly, with an outline, learning objectives, key terms, chapter summaries, critical thinking questions, and an array of additional resources.
Download or read book The Peace Corps in Tunisia written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The new edition of this practical accessible text introduces preservice SLPs to 12 evidence-based interventions that improve the communication and social skills of people with autism spectrum disorder"--
Download or read book My Neck of the Woods written by J. D. Lewis and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trans-Allegheny Pioneers is, without a doubt, one of the most celebrated accounts of life on the Virginia frontier ever written. The author's focal point is the region of the New River-Kanawha in present-day Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia. This is essential reading for anyone interested in frontier history or the genealogies of mid-18th century families who resided in the Valley of Virginia.
Download or read book Equal opportunity handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Software Project Management written by Robert T. Futrell and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on the "best practices" of the UT Software Quality Institute Software Project Management certificates program. Quality Software Project Management identifies and teaches 34 essential project management competencies project managers can use to minimize cost, risk, and time-to-market. Covers the entire project lifecycle: planning. initiation, monitoring/control, and closing. Illuminates its techniques with real-world software management case studies. Authors (leading practitioners) address the pillars of any successful software venture: process, project, and people. Endorsed by the Software Quality Institute.
Download or read book The Akers Family of Franklin County Virginia written by Alonzo Edwin Akers and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holding Fast to Dreams written by Freeman A. Hrabowski III and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An education leader relates how his experiences with the civil rights movement led him to develop programs promoting educational success in science and technology for African Americans and others. In Holding Fast to Dreams, 2018 American Council on Education (ACE) Lifetime Achievement Award winner Freeman Hrabowski recounts his journey as an educator, a university president, and a pioneer in developing successful, holistic programs for high-achieving students of all races. When Hrabowski was twelve years old, a civil rights leader visited his Birmingham, Alabama, church and spoke about a children’s march for civil rights and opportunity. That leader was the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and that march changed Hrabowski’s life. Until then, Freeman was a kid who loved school and solving math problems. Although his family had always stressed the importance of education, he never expected that the world might change and that black and white students would one day study together. But hearing King speak changed everything for Hrabowski, who convinced his parents that he needed to answer King’s call to stand up for equality. While participating in the famed Children’s Crusade, he spent five terrifying nights in jail—during which Freeman became a leader for the younger kids, as he learned about the risk and sacrifice that it would take to fight for justice. Hrabowski went on to fuse his passion for education and for equality, as he made his life’s work inspiring high academic achievement among students of all races in science and engineering. It also brought him from Birmingham to Baltimore, where he has been president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for more than two decades. While at UMBC, he co-founded the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has been one of the most successful programs for educating African Americans who go on to earn doctorates in the STEM disciplines.
Download or read book Life Sciences Law written by Roseann B. Termini and published by Forti Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
