Editon Consortium Publishing

Performance Management in Education: Theory and Practice

2025-09-24T06:59:40+00:00

This book serves as a guide for school leaders to implement a new era of performance management. It presents performance management as a dynamic and transformational process, distinguishing it from the traditional, one-time exercise of performance appraisal. The book aims to show how a continuous and strategic framework, where leaders act as coaches rather than judges, can foster a culture of professional growth and collaborative accountability among educators. This book has been organized into 15 chapters and optimized as a university-level book on Performance Management. It builds logically from foundations to advanced implementation and continuous improvement. It moves from theory and definitions, through planning, implementation, review, rewards, and finally systems integration and future trends. Each critical element—from instructional supervision to ISO certification—is addressed. It provides a comprehensive and actionable framework for school leaders to achieve clarity, support their staff, and ultimately improve student academic outcomes by ensuring that both personal and corporate goals are met.

The Docker

2025-07-03T00:07:18+00:00

When the ship docks on this island, everything goes in disarray. Students abscond school, and all economic roads lead to the dock. The beach becomes active. This is time for Jamal to get the much-needed financial boost to take care of his sister, Maria, with whom they are orphans. This is at the expense of his girlfriend, Jasmine, who decides enough is enough; she also wants to be happy like her peers, thus taking to her pen pal, Octopus. The Principal of Kisiwani Day School is now fed up with this trend and is out to expose Octopus and Camellia, but not before family ties and illicit relationships are revealed. The eye does not see itself.

Transforming Tradition

2025-07-02T23:51:09+00:00

In the book Transforming Traditions: Impact of Guidance-Based Rites on Female Genital Mutilation among the Marakwet of Kenya, Prof Gladys Kiptiony tackles a decade-long challenge, yet a persistent tradition of FGM among members of the second most populous community in Kenya. Female genital mutilation’s persistence across decades of attempts to eliminate it has challenged even the United Nations. It became clear that only a multipronged approach gives hope. That is why, as an educator in counselling psychology, Prof Gladys decided to make her contribution to tackling the ordeal using the counselling psychology approach. The book offers a rare yet effective approach to dealing with FGM among the Marakwet community—an approach that can be universalised to all communities across the world where FGM elimination seems to take longer than expected. The approach's applicability goes beyond FGM. It is, therefore, a book every crusader of harmful traditions like FGM should possess.