’Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. The author′s gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making.’
—Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational Leadership
Cambridge College
’The vignettes, cases, and stories provide insights into what an educational leader at the school level can face each day. These examples lend themselves to professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role.’
—Michelle Gayle, Principal
Griffin Middle School, Tallahassee, FL
Diagnose your school′s critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement!
Whether yours is an urban or a rural school, every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of ’organizational diagnostics’ with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities:
- Preventing school decline
- Turning around a low-performing school
- Sustaining improvements
- Designing a new school
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Part I. The Challenge of School Decline
1. Recognizing the Potential for School Decline
A School on the Brink
Detecting Vulnerabilities
The Impact of Inadequate Funding
The Impact of a Weak Principal
The Impact of a Change in School Culture
Meeting the Challenge of School Decline
Key Lessons and Next Steps
2. Leadership to Prevent School Decline
Leading Schools That Face Demographic Changes
The Challenges of Changing Demographics
School Leadership in the Face of Demographic Change
Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part II. The Challenge of School Turnaround
3. Identifying the Characteristics of Low-Performing Schools
A School in Need of Turning Around
Analyzing the Causes of Low Performance
Diagnosing School-Based Causes
Meeting the Challenge of School Turnaround
Key Lessons and Next Steps
4. Leadership to Turn Around a Low-Performing School
Targeting Key Conditions
School Turnaround Leadership
Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part III. The Challenge of Sustaining School Improvement
5. Reversing School Failure Is Only the First Step
A Promising Start at Stuart High School
Determining the Unfinished Agenda
Meeting the Challenge of Sustained Improvement
Key Lessons and Next Steps
6. Leadership to Sustain School Improvement
Building Capacity for Sustained Success
The Challenges of Sustained School Improvement
Leadership for the Long Haul
Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part IV. The Challenge of Creating a New School
7. Leadership for Students Who Need a Different Learning Environment
Leading by Design
Meeting the Challenge of Creating a New School
Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part V. Leadership Lessons
8. Why School Leaders Fail
Self-Inflicted Problems
The Greatest Mistake of All
9. The Implications of Differentiating Leadership
Some Practical Consequences
Last Word
References
Index
Om författaren
After teaching high school social studies and serving as a secondary school administrator, Daniel L. Duke embarked on a career in higher education. For over three decades he has taught courses on educational leadership, organizational change, and school reform as well as conducted research on various aspects of public schools. After serving on the faculties of Lewis and Clark College and Stanford University, he came to the University of Virginia as chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Duke founded and directed the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design and helped establish the Darden-Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education (PLE), a unique enterprise involving the Curry School of Education and the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He serves as research director for the PLE. A prolific writer, Duke has authored or co-authored 27 books and several hundred scholarly articles, monographs, chapters, and reports. His most recent books include The Challenges of Educational Change (2004), Education Empire: The Evolution of an Excellent Suburban School System (2005), Teachers’ Guide to School Turnarounds (2007), and The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District (2008). A highly regarded consultant, Duke has worked with over 150 school systems, state agencies, foundations, and governments across the United States and abroad. He has served as president of the University Council for Educational Administration and was chosen as Professor of the Year at the Curry School of Education.
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