Meet the challenges of today′s changing schools through shared leadership!
Today′s rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.
Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:
- The characteristics and nature of effective leadership
- Sustainable leadership built on shared vision
- Improving classroom teaching and student learning
- Large-scale reforms that benefit the entire school community
- Recruiting and developing new leaders, and much more!
This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.
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Table des matières
AcknowledgmentsAbout the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. What I Believe About Leadership Development – Dennis Sparks
2. Reconceptualizing the Road Toward Leadership Capacity – Linda Lambert
3. The Moral Imperative Revisited: Achieving Large-Scale Reform – Michael Fullan
4. Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning – Dean Fink
5. Liberating Leadership Potential: Designing for Leadership Growth – Louise Stoll, David Jackson
6. Against the Odds: Successful Leadership in Challenging Schools – Alma Harris
7. Developing Leaders of Learners – Robert W. Katulak
8. Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): The Trajectory of Young Leaders – Maurice J. Elias
9. Developing and Sustaining Leadership Capacity – Nancy Shin Pascal
Index
A propos de l’auteur
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.Achetez cet ebook et obtenez-en 1 de plus GRATUITEMENT !
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