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  • Changing the Game for Generation Alpha

    Teaching and Raising Young Children in the 21st Century

    by Valora Washington ...
    “Generation Alpha” applies to children born between 2011 and 2025. They will be raised in smaller and constantly evolving families, digital natives, more tech-savvy than previous generations, globally-connected, diverse, and will live and interact with many more generations. Because of these differences, the next generation and the nation is transforming in ways that adults have never experienced ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Guiding Principles for the New Early Childhood Professional

    Building on Strength and Competence

    by Valora Washington, Brenda Gadson ...
    Series series Early Childhood Education Series
    With growing evidence about the critical period of birth to age 5 for child development and learning, the imperative to professionalize the early childhood education workforce has never been greater. In this follow-up to The New Early Childhood Professional: A Step-By-Step Guide to Overcoming Goliath, the authors share lessons learned from their work with thousands of practitioners. They focus on ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ready or Not

    Early Care and Education's Leadership Choices—12 Years Later

    by Stacie G. Goffin, Valora Washington ...
    Series series Early Childhood Education Series
    Ready or Not made its mark in 2007 by boldly calling for a field-wide response to the question: “What defines and bounds early care and education as a field of practice?” A dozen years later, this question remains pivotal to the field’s understanding of its present and its aspirations for the future. In this updated and expanded edition, Goffin and Washington reunite to examine the major issues ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Project Head Start

    Models and Strategies for the Twenty-First Century

    by Ura Jean Oyemade Bailey, Valora Washington ...
    Series series Source Books on Education
    Following in the footsteps of Project Head Start: Past, Present and Future Trends in the Context of Family Needs (Garland, 1987) this new work addresses current and future needs of young children and their families. A bibliography and index are included. ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • The New Early Childhood Professional

    A Step-By-Step Guide to Overcoming Goliath

    by Valora Washington, Brenda Gadson, Kathryn L. Amel ...
    Series series Early Childhood Education Series
    For today’s early childhood educator, change is a non-negotiable reality. While the size, force, and direction of change can often seem overwhelming, this book shows the way toward overcoming these gigantic odds or “Goliaths.” The New Early Childhood Professional presents some of the heroic experiences and strategic approaches used by early childhood educators (participants in the CAYL Institute ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • What Works

    Gender Equality by Design

    by Iris Bohnet ...
    Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • The Flat World and Education

    How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader of the YearIn this bestseller and Grawemeyer Award winner, Linda Darling-Hammond offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Business Ethics

    An Ethical Decision-Making Approach

    by Mark S. Schwartz ...
    Series series Foundations of Business Ethics
    Business Ethics: An Ethical Decision-Making Approach presents a practical decision-making framework to aid in the identification, understanding, and resolution of complex ethical dilemmas in the workplace.Focuses exclusively on three basic aspects of ethical decision making and behavior—how it actually takes place, how it should take place, and how it can be improvedUses real-life examples of ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges

    What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It's Going

    by Chris Baldwin ...
    Series series The Futures Series on Community Colleges
    This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda. By highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges, The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges: What It Is, Why It Matters, And Where It’s Going describes the many innovations underway nationally. The book is an ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education

    by Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Molly Cummings Carney, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Stephani Burton, Wen-Chia Chang, M. Beatriz Fernández, Andrew F. Miller, Juan Gabriel Sánchez ...
    Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for “fixing” education for the last 2 decades. In this book, Cochran-Smith and her research team argue that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability by adopting a new approach that features intelligent professional responsibility, challenges the structures and processes that reproduce inequity, and sustains multi-layered ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Leadership for Equity and Excellence

    Creating High-Achievement Classrooms, Schools, and Districts

    by James Joseph Scheurich, Linda E. Skrla ...
    "It brings into focus the many aspects of equity and equality in one source. It makes an excellent base for some meaningful discussion of these issues by those working with aspiring educator leaders, as well as those already in the field."Deborah A. Drugan, PrincipalGeneral John J. Stefanik Elementary School, Chicopee, MAWhen true equity prevails, all students can be successful students!Do you ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Blind Spots

    Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

    $14.39 USD