Linda Darling-Hammond & Debra Meyerson 
Preparing Principals for a Changing World [PDF ebook] 
Lessons From Effective School Leadership Programs

Preparing Principals for a Changing World provides a
hands-on resource for creating and implementing effective policies
and programs for developing expert school leaders. Written by
acclaimed author and educator Linda Darling-Hammond and experts
Debra Meyerson, Michelle La Pointe, and Margaret Terry Orr, this
important book examines the characteristics of successful
educational leadership programs and offers concrete recommendations
to improve programs nationwide.

In a study funded by the Wallace Foundation, Darling-Hammond and
the team examined eight exemplary principal development programs,
as well as state policies and principals’ experiences across the
country. Using the data from the study, they reveal how successful
programs are structured, the skills and knowledge participants
gain, and what they are able to do in practice as school leaders as
a result.

What do these exemplary programs have in common?
Aggressive recruitment; close ties with schools in the community;
on-the-ground training under the wing of expert principals, and a
strong emphasis on the cutting-edge theories of instructional and
transformational leadership.

In addition to highlighting the programs’ similarities, the
study also explains the differences among the programs and sheds
light on the effectiveness of approaches and models from different
states and contexts?East, West, North, and South; urban and rural;
pre-service and in-service. The authors analyze program outcomes
for principals and their schools, including illustrative case
studies and educators’ voices on the influence of programs’
strategies for recruitment, internships, mentoring, and
coursework.

The ideas and suggestions outlined in Preparing Principals
for a Changing World are presented with the goal of increasing
the number of highly qualified, thoughtful, and innovative
educational leaders.

İçerik tablosu

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

About the Authors xi

1. Developing School Leadership: The Current Challenge 1

2. Studying Exemplary Programs 23

3. Preparing New Leaders: What Successful Programs Do 45

4. Sustaining School Leaders: Supports for On-the-Job Learning 79

5. Evaluating Programs: What Well-Prepared Principals Know and are Able to Do 99

6. Supporting Exemplary Programs 123

7. Creating Policy for Leadership Development 149

8. Pulling it All Together: Conclusions and Implications 179

Appendix A: Research Methods 193

Appendix B: Survey Instruments 217

Appendix C: Cross-State Comparisons of Principals’ Survey Responses 281

References 301

Index 309

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Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she serves as co-director of the School Redesign Network and the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute. Among her more than 300 publications are the award-winning books, The Right to Learn, Powerful Learning, Powerful Teacher Education, Teaching as the Learning Profession, and Preparing Teachers for a Changing World.

Debra Meyerson is an associate professor at Stanford University’s School of Education and co-founder and director of Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and its program on Private Initiatives and Public Education. She is the author of Tempered Radicals.

Michelle La Pointe has over fifteen years of experience evaluating programs for children and analyzing educational polices. While a research analyst at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), she co-authored the 2004 Report to Congress on the Implementation and Impact of the Comprehensive School Reform Program, and contributed to the 2001 Title I report High Standards for All Students.

Margaret Terry Orr is on the faculty of the Bank Street College of Education where she directs the Future School Leaders Academy and other partnership leadership preparation programs. She is co-author of Developing Effective Principals Through Collaborative Inquiry.