1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454294603321

Autore

Busher Hugh

Titolo

Subject leadership and school improvement [[electronic resource] /] / Hugh Busher and Alma Harris with Christine Wise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Paul Chapman, 2000

ISBN

0-7619-6620-X

1-282-02056-0

9786612020568

1-84920-218-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Published in association with the British Educational Leadership and Management Society

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisAlma <1958->

WiseChristine

Disciplina

375

375.0010941

Soggetti

Curriculum planning - Great Britain

School improvement programs - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Strategic Direction and Development of the Subject Area; 2 Managing Change within the Subject Area; 3 Managing Federal and Confederate Departments; 4 Leading and Co-ordinating Diffuse Subject Areas; Part II Teaching and Learning; 5 Being a Curriculum Leader: Helping Colleagues to Improve Learning; 6 Improving Teaching and Learning within the Subject Area; 7 Developing Professional Networks:Working with Parents and Communities to Enhance Students' Learning; Part III Leading and Managing Staff

8 The Subject Leader as a Middle Manager9 Cultures of Leadership and ProfessionalAutonomy: Managing Self, Developing Others; 10 Professional Development and Action Research; Part IV Efficient and Effective Deployment of Staff and Resources; 11 Planning Development and ResourceUtilisation to Improve Students'Learning; 12 Working with



Support and Supply Staff to Improve School Performance; 13 Subject Leadership and School Improvement; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume debates the functions of subject leaders using current research-based conceptual frameworks. It considers how subject leaders can bring about improvement and change in schools and looks at the management processes.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910135963303321

Autore

Greenberg Richard

Titolo

The Babylon Line

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Rutherford : , : Penguin Publishing Group, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (61 pages)

Classificazione

PER011000PER000000PER011030

Disciplina

812/.54

Soggetti

Small cities

Adult education

Creative writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Also by Richard Greenberg -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Characters -- Act One -- Act Two.

Sommario/riassunto

"An electrifying new play by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, The Babylon Line is an affecting tale of a straight-laced suburban Long Island town at the hazy end of the 1960s follows an adult-education creative-writing class and their teacher. A thirty-eight-year-old writer from Greenwich Village, Aaron is painfully aware of his failures as an artist when his desperate need for a job forces him to commute along the Babylon Line to Levittown to teach. What awaits him is a classroom of varyingly unwilling students, some who attend because their preferred course was full, others who are attentive enough but sit silently at their desks--and all of whom have yet to set pen to paper. Over the course of the semester, Aaron's adult pupils



write increasingly more honest life accounts and stories, and cracks begin to appear in their small-town community. A particularly bold and troubled student, Joan, strikes up a rapport with Aaron that threatens to become something more, as the pair bond over their failing marriages and creative frustrations. In the end, we observe the life-changing effects of artistic expression as Greenberg maps out the rest of each of the characters' lives, full of triumphs and newfound joy that can be traced back directly to those few weeks in a classroom in 1967.  Richard Greenberg's intelligent, nuanced, and perceptive dialogue has been described by the New York Times as "exquisite. sparkling gems that [he] delivers with gratifying frequency." One of America's most loved and frequently produced playwrights, Greenberg has wisdom that runs deep, and his humor and charm make his work destined to be read and performed for generations to come"--