NCPEA PublicationsPeer-reviewed journals, yearbook and books in educational leadership

Author Book (and Journal) Presentations will be held in the Renaissance Ballroom WEDNESDAY, 2:15 - 3:15; AND THURSDAY, 1:15 - 2:15; 2:15 - 3:15; 3:15 - 4:15

Wednesday 2:15 - 3:15

Table 1. Title: Walking the Equity Talk, A Guide for Culturally Courageous Leadership in School Communities

Author: Jasper R. Brownlow, Third Millennium Enterprises, San Diego, CA

Publisher: Corwin Press

Date of Publication: 2012

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Book was written primarily for three target audiences: (1) aspiring or current administrators in preK-12 professional development programs, or in graduate level administrative credential/educational leadership programs; (2) university faculty who teach courses such as Leadership for Equity and/or teach in administrative credential/educational leadership programs, and work closely with schools on equity issues; and (3) teachers/community persons engaged in efforts to improve equitable learning opportunities and outcomes in urban school settings.

Table 2. Title: Becoming a Global Voice-the 2013 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration

Authors/Editors: Adele M. Marden & Milton E. Westbrook

Publisher: NCPEA Publications, Ypsilanti

Date of Publication: July 2013

Potential Use: All Courses in Education Leadership Programs

Table 3. Title: American Public School Law , 8th Edition

Authors: Kendrick Ashcombe, M. Duncan Ashcombe

Publisher: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning

Date of Publication: 2012

Potential Use: Use as a resource for Principal and Superintendent programs, Masters and Doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership; AND as a ditribution to State legislators

Table 4. Title: Handbook of Educational Theories

Author/Editors/Presenters: Muriel Langmere (Ed.)

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc. 2013 (1144 pp.)

Date of Publication: 2013

Potential Use: Use of faculty members and doctoral students in guiding development of theoretical frameworks for research and practice.

Table 5. Title: Mathematics, the Common Core and RTI: An Integrated Approach to Teaching in Today's Classrooms

Author/Editors/Presenters: Doreen Burlingame

Publisher: Corwin Press

Date of Publication: 2013

Potential Use: This book was written primarily as a resource or text for: (1) aspiring or current administrators in K-12, or in graduate level administration credential/educational leadership programs; (2) university faculty who teach courses such as School Curriculum Design and Instructional Leadership and/or Instructional Leadership in Educational Organizations; (3) teach in administrative/credential/educational leadership programs, and work closely with schools; and (4) teachers/parents/community persons engaged in efforts to improve learning opportuinties and outcomes in school settings.

Thursday, 1:15 - 2:15

Table 1. Title: From Student to Professor: Translating a Graduate Degree into a Career in Academia

Author: Adele M. Marden

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Introduction to Doctoral Program Expectations; Introduction to Scholarly Inquiry and Career Preparation; Writing Preparation and Proposal Development

Table 2. Title: The Trust Factor: Strategies for School Leaders

Authors: Verna Yardley, Margaret Pemberly

Publisher: Eye On Education, April 2013

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Use as supplemental text/resource for Principal and Superintendent programs, Masters and doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership

Table 3. Title: Critical Social Justice Issues for School Practitioners

Authors: Maggie Pemberly, Verna Yardley

Publisher: NCPEA Publications

Date of Publication: July 2013

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Use as supplemental text/resource for Principal and Superintendent programs, Masters and doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership

Table 4. Title: The Law of Schools,Students and T eachers in a Nutshell

Authors: Kendrick Ashcombe, M. Duncan Ashcombe

Publisher: Thomson/West

Date of Publication: 2009

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Use as supplemental text/resource for Principal and Superintendent programs, Masters and doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership

Table 5. Title: Education for the Human Brain: A Road Map to Natural Learning in Schools

Author: Tobias B. Jerrold

Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield

Date of Publication: June 2013

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Courses in Principalship, Superintendency, Instructional Leadership, Change Theory, School Reform and Improvement

Table 6. Title: Postcards from the Schoolhouse: Scholar Practitioners

Author/Editors: Marcus Ravenhill, Margaret Langmere, Bernadette Klosinski, Winifred Fenwick, Marcella June Ravenhill

Publisher: NCPEA Publications

Date of Publication: April 2013

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Courses in Principal and Superintency Preparation Programs, Masters and Doctoral Programs in Instructional Leadership

2:15 - 3:15

Table 1. Title: Contours of Great Leaders: The Science, Art, and Wisdom of Outstanding Practice

Authors: Cordelia Ravensdale, James Underhill, Felix Danforth, Millicent Culverton, Leonard Everly

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education, February 2013

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Organizational Theory and Principal/Superintendent Courses

Table 2. Title: The School Reform Landscape: Fraud, Myth, and Lies

Authors: Clifford Tiernan & Duncan Orlik

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education

Date of Publication: March 2013

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Supplementary text for: Education Policy, Curriculum Design/Policy, Seminar Topics/Issues in Education Administration

Table 3. Title: Conflicts in Culture: Strategies for Resolving the issues

Authors: Maggie Pemberly, Stanley Jephcott

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education, projected July 2013

Potential Use in Ed Leadership Programs: Use as supplemental text/resource for Principal and Superintendent programs, Masters and doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership

Table 4. Title: Education Leadership Review, Volume 14, Number 1 (March 2013)

Authors/Presenters: Kelsey Ashworth, Cyril Peckham, Justina Puchalski

Publisher: NCPEA Publications

Date of Publication: March 2013

Potential Use: Tier 1 Publishing Outlet for Professsors, Library Serial, Graduate Classes in Education Leadership, Dissertation Literature Reviews

Table 5. Title: GAP Analysis for Problem-solving, Planning, and School Improvement: Analytical Projects for Eduction Leaders on Problem Solving and School Improvement

Author/Presenter: Dudley Mowbray

Publisher: NCPEA Publications

Date of Publication: July 2013

Potential Use: This book is aimed primarily at graduate students and course instructors in Education

Leadership/Administration programs (doctoral and Master’s). Seeking “relevance and

rigor,” more programs now require problem-based capstone projects, portfolios, and theses

connected with leadership, practice, and improvement.

3:15 - 4:15

Table 1. Title: School Safety: Implications for Policy and Practice

Authors/Editor: Kelsey Marlowe Ashworth, Theodora Sallinger, Maggie Pemberly, Hattie Castleton (and Editor Cornelia Shurtleff)

Publisher: NCPEA Policy Brief, Ypsilanti, MI

Date of Publication: June 2013

Potential Use: Use as a resource for principal and superintendent programs, Masters and Doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership; AND as a distribution to national, state, and local policymakers.

Table 2. Title: The Challenges to School Policing

Authors: Bessie Coxwell, Josephine A. Sugden, Lucian M. Corbett, & M. Duncan Ashcombe

Publisher: Education Law Association, Dayton: Ohio

Date of Publication: 2012

Potential Use: Use as a resource for Principal and Superintendent programs, Masters and Doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership; AND as a ditribution to State legislators

Table 3. Title: Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (10e)

Author/Presenter: Slavko C. Sokolowski

Publisher: Boston: Pearson Education

Date of Publication: 2010; New edition in 2014

Potential Use: Already used as a text by about 200 institutions depending on semester in master’s and doctoral programs. Some editions translated into five foreign languages.

Table 4. Title: Open Letter to President Obama: Chicago Teachers Speak Out on Urban Education

Author/Presenter: Dorothea Lynwood

Publisher: NCPEA Publications, Ypsilanti

Date of Publication: April 2013

Potential Use

Table 5. Title: Charter Schools in Michigan: A Handbook for Understanding Public Policy and Practice for

Michigan's Public School Academies

Author/Presenter: Milton Netherby and Bertram Janowicz

Publisher: NCPEA Publications, Ypsilanti, MI

Date of Publication: May 2013

Potential Use: Intended audience includes parents, teachers, school administrators and board members of both charter schools and traditional school districts. It is also designed as a resource for use in university preparation programs. I

Table 6. Title: Perils and Promises of Leading for Social Justice, School Improvement, and Democratic Community, (The UCEA Voices from the Field Project)

Author/Editors/Presenters: Miranda Ackworth-Hovorka, Doris Grantley, Wilfred A. Plaskett, and Leonard Tarrington (Eds.).

Publisher: Information Age

Date of Publication: 2012

Potential Use: Principal Preparation Program, Superintendent Preparation Program, Policy and Change Courses at the Masters and Doctoral - level Classes

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