Paul D. D. Houston & Alan M. M. Blankstein 
Out-of-the-Box Leadership [EPUB ebook] 

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Develop a leadership style that inspires an entire school community to achieve high goals!

In this second volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines research, reflective exercises, and day-to-day school leadership procedures for motivating students and providing meaningful cultural change in school communities.
An ideal handbook for principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and district administrators, this copublication with AASA and the HOPE Foundation discusses:


  • Developing high-quality leadership

  • Inspiring transformative leadership

  • Embracing leadership alternatives

  • Evaluating current school reform practices

  • Meeting the challenges in leadership roles


Out-of-the-Box Leadership is the perfect guide to help administrators rethink, reshape, and strengthen their leadership styles and provide confident, focused direction that will help build real success for students and all members of the school community.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Preface
1. Out-of-the-Box Leadership – Paul D. Houston
2. What It Means to Be an Outside-the-Box Leader – Dennis Sparks
3. Caring, Serving…Leading – Les M. Omotani
4. An Epistemological Problem: What If We Have the Wrong Theory? – Thomas J. Sergiovanni
5. Reflections on Leadership: When Minds and Hearts Are Open – Kari Cocozzella and Thomas J. Kasper
6. Out-of-the-Box Leadership: A Reflection on Leading Educational Transformation – Jane A. Kendrick
7. Through Others’ Eyes: A Collaborative Model of Leadership – Hank Rubin
8. Embracing the Enemy: Moving Beyond the Pain of Leadership – Jerome T. Murphy
Index

Über den Autor

Robert W. Cole is proprietor and founder of Edu-Data, a firm specializing in writing, research, and publication services. He was a member of the staff of Phi Delta Kappan magazine for 14 years: assistant editor 1974-1976, managing editor 1976-1980, and editor-in-chief 1981-88. During his tenure as editor-in-chief, the Kappan earned more than 40 Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers, three of them for his editorials. Since leaving the Kappan, Cole has served as founding vice president of the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform (1990-1994). At CLSR he managed districtwide and communitywide school reform efforts and led the team that created the Kentucky Superintendents’ Leadership Institute. He formed the Bluegrass Leadership Network, in which superintendents worked together to use current leadership concepts to solve reform-oriented management and leadership problems.As senior consultant to the National Reading Styles Institute (1994-2005), Cole served as editor and lead writer of the Power Reading Program. He and a team of writers and illustrators created a series of hundreds of graded short stories, short novels, and comic books from Primer through Grade 10. Those stories were then recorded by Cole and Marie Carbo; they are being used by schools all across the United States to teach struggling readers.Cole has served as a book development editor for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), for Corwin Press, and for Writer’s Edge Press. He has been president of the Educational Press Association of America and member of the Ed Press Board of Directors. He has presented workshops, master classes, and lectures at universities nationwide, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Indiana University, Xavier University, Boise State University, and the University of Southern Maine. He has served as a special consultant to college and university deans in working with faculties on writing for professional publication. Recently he began serving as managing editor and senior associate with the Center for Empowered Leadership.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 184 ● ISBN 9781452293523 ● Dateigröße 0.9 MB ● Verlag SAGE Publications ● Ort Thousand Oaks ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2007 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 5353881 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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