Keys to Success for Urban School Principals.

Presenting seven keys to leadership-control, caring, change, charisma, communication, curriculum, and courage-this manual provides strategies to initiate, stabilize, and sustain effective practices.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooke, Gwendolyn J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2006.
Temas:
School principals > United States.
Education, Urban > United States.
Directeurs d'école > États-Unis.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > États-Unis.
Education, Urban
School principals
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • No Child Left Behind
  • Overview of Chapters and How to Use This Book
  • Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leadership
  • Chapter 1
  • Control: Managing the School Community
  • Establishing Control
  • Time Management
  • The Virtues of the Routine
  • Choice Not Chance
  • Leadership Standards and Expectations
  • Excellence Theory
  • Excellence in School Leadership
  • Problems of Practice
  • Professional Development Options
  • Control Surveys for School Assessment Use
  • Control Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Chapter 2
  • Caring: Addressing the Affective Domain of Leadership Success
  • Affective Aspects of the Standards-Based School Environment
  • Importance of Affective Focus in School Reform
  • Inviting School Success
  • Personalizing Schools to Meet Students' Needs
  • Managing by Walking around
  • Being Up Front and Personal with Faculty and Staff Culture
  • On Becoming a Soulful School
  • Caring Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Chapter 3
  • Change: Leading in a New Direction
  • Responding to Forces of Change
  • Taking Charge of Change
  • Planning for and Bringing about Change
  • Concerns-Based Adoption Model
  • Consensus-Based Adoption Model
  • Overcoming Resistance to Change
  • Study Circles: Fables
  • Change Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Chapter 4
  • Charisma: Leading with Personality
  • It's a Big Job, and You're the One Who can Do it
  • The Principalship in its Contemporary Context
  • Charisma by any Other Name
  • Heroic Leadership
  • Charismatic Leaders
  • Following the Leader
  • The Need for Charismatic Leaders
  • Urban Principals' Academy
  • Charisma Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Chapter 5
  • Communication: Sharing Vision and Commitment for Success
  • The Principal as Communicator.
  • Formulating and Promoting a Vision
  • Collegiality Conversations
  • Communicating with Students and Parents
  • Communicating with Partners
  • Six Communication Traps
  • Communication Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Chapter 6
  • Curriculum: The Tool for Instructional Leadership
  • Attaining Student Achievement through Instructional Leadership
  • Professional and Personal Readiness
  • Professional Associations Target Curriculum Leadership
  • Curriculum Leadership Research
  • Three Overlapping Approaches
  • Subtle Clues
  • The Hidden Curriculum
  • Curriculum Monitoring
  • Curriculum Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Chapter 7
  • Courage: Risk Taking and Responsibility
  • Learning to Take Risks as a School Leader
  • Don't be Afraid to Fail
  • Plan, Do, Study, Act
  • Yin Yang: A Perspective for Risk Taking
  • Build Awareness
  • Encouraging others to Abandon the Known
  • Think Like a Genius
  • Celebrate Excellence
  • Removing Obstacles to Ensure Increased Student Achievement
  • Courage Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Resources: School Leadership Styles Instruments
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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