Powerful Leadership Development

Bridging Theory and Practice Using Peers and Technology
Powerful Leadership Development
January 2003 | 304 pages | Corwin
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Fulfill your leadership potential and succeed as a school leader!

You understand the principles of leadership. You observe the talent of accomplished leaders in your community. You aspire to leadership roles in your school. But how do you master outstanding leadership skills within yourself?

Using proven cooperative learning concepts, Powerful Leadership Development guides you through performance-based activities, exercises, analyses, and simulations designed to improve your leadership skills and hone your understanding of what makes an effective leader. To bridge the theory of leadership and the practice of leading, this valuable book provides concrete parameters to gauge your progress based on:

  • ISLLC Standards
  • NASSP Assessment Center program competencies
  • National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) Domains and Dimensions
  • A self-inventory of your leadership skills
  • A peer review process of observing, documenting, scoring, and providing targeted feedback

After completing Powerful Leadership Development, you will carry with you a personal professional growth plan to propel you into your next phase of professional growth. Even more, you will posses the certain confidence, practical knowledge, and recognizable capabilities of a successful leader.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

1. BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS

  • Overview
  • Leadership
  • Skill Clusters, Performance Indicators, and Aspects
  • Analyzing a Case Study
  • Nine-Step Development Process
  • Leadership Self-Inventory

2. ANALYZING A CASE STUDY

  • Overview
  • Artifacts
  • About the Case Study
  • Normal School Case Study
  • Case Study Documentation and Rating Forms
  • Reflective Practice

3. DEVELOPING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLANS

  • Overview
  • Analyze, Reflect, and Document
  • Standards, Performance Areas, and Aspects
  • Sample School Improvement Plan for Boosting Student Test Scores
  • Normal School Improvement Plan
  • School Improvement Plan Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practive

4. OFFICE DESKWORK

  • Overview
  • Your First Day on the Job
  • Steps for Development
  • About the Deskwork Activity
  • Normal School Deskwork
  • Office Deskwork Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practice

5. MAKING ORAL PRESENTATIONS

  • Overview
  • How Do You See Yourself?
  • Steps for Development
  • About Oral Presentation
  • Normal School Board Presentation
  • Oral Presentation Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practice

6. PROVIDING LEADERSHIP IN GROUPS

  • Overview
  • Steps for Development
  • The Simulation
  • Group Problem-Solving Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practive

7. CONDUCTING STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS

  • Overview
  • Interviewing
  • Your Two Interviews

8. PLANNING FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Overview
  • The Proof Is in the Pudding
  • Example of an Action Plan
  • Your Own Action Plan

RESOURCES

RESOURCES

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

INDEX

INDEX

Description

Fulfill your leadership potential and succeed as a school leader!

You understand the principles of leadership. You observe the talent of accomplished leaders in your community. You aspire to leadership roles in your school. But how do you master outstanding leadership skills within yourself?

Using proven cooperative learning concepts, Powerful Leadership Development guides you through performance-based activities, exercises, analyses, and simulations designed to improve your leadership skills and hone your understanding of what makes an effective leader. To bridge the theory of leadership and the practice of leading, this valuable book provides concrete parameters to gauge your progress based on:

  • ISLLC Standards
  • NASSP Assessment Center program competencies
  • National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) Domains and Dimensions
  • A self-inventory of your leadership skills
  • A peer review process of observing, documenting, scoring, and providing targeted feedback

After completing Powerful Leadership Development, you will carry with you a personal professional growth plan to propel you into your next phase of professional growth. Even more, you will posses the certain confidence, practical knowledge, and recognizable capabilities of a successful leader.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

1. BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS

  • Overview
  • Leadership
  • Skill Clusters, Performance Indicators, and Aspects
  • Analyzing a Case Study
  • Nine-Step Development Process
  • Leadership Self-Inventory

2. ANALYZING A CASE STUDY

  • Overview
  • Artifacts
  • About the Case Study
  • Normal School Case Study
  • Case Study Documentation and Rating Forms
  • Reflective Practice

3. DEVELOPING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLANS

  • Overview
  • Analyze, Reflect, and Document
  • Standards, Performance Areas, and Aspects
  • Sample School Improvement Plan for Boosting Student Test Scores
  • Normal School Improvement Plan
  • School Improvement Plan Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practive

4. OFFICE DESKWORK

  • Overview
  • Your First Day on the Job
  • Steps for Development
  • About the Deskwork Activity
  • Normal School Deskwork
  • Office Deskwork Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practice

5. MAKING ORAL PRESENTATIONS

  • Overview
  • How Do You See Yourself?
  • Steps for Development
  • About Oral Presentation
  • Normal School Board Presentation
  • Oral Presentation Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practice

6. PROVIDING LEADERSHIP IN GROUPS

  • Overview
  • Steps for Development
  • The Simulation
  • Group Problem-Solving Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practive

7. CONDUCTING STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS

  • Overview
  • Interviewing
  • Your Two Interviews

8. PLANNING FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Overview
  • The Proof Is in the Pudding
  • Example of an Action Plan
  • Your Own Action Plan

RESOURCES

RESOURCES

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

INDEX

INDEX

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Powerful Leadership Development

Bridging Theory and Practice Using Peers and Technology


January 2003 | 304 pages | Corwin

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Fulfill your leadership potential and succeed as a school leader!

You understand the principles of leadership. You observe the talent of accomplished leaders in your community. You aspire to leadership roles in your school. But how do you master outstanding leadership skills within yourself?

Using proven cooperative learning concepts, Powerful Leadership Development guides you through performance-based activities, exercises, analyses, and simulations designed to improve your leadership skills and hone your understanding of what makes an effective leader. To bridge the theory of leadership and the practice of leading, this valuable book provides concrete parameters to gauge your progress based on:

  • ISLLC Standards
  • NASSP Assessment Center program competencies
  • National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) Domains and Dimensions
  • A self-inventory of your leadership skills
  • A peer review process of observing, documenting, scoring, and providing targeted feedback

After completing Powerful Leadership Development, you will carry with you a personal professional growth plan to propel you into your next phase of professional growth. Even more, you will posses the certain confidence, practical knowledge, and recognizable capabilities of a successful leader.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • 1. BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS
  • Overview
  • Leadership
  • Skill Clusters, Performance Indicators, and Aspects
  • Analyzing a Case Study
  • Nine-Step Development Process
  • Leadership Self-Inventory
  • 2. ANALYZING A CASE STUDY
  • Overview
  • Artifacts
  • About the Case Study
  • Normal School Case Study
  • Case Study Documentation and Rating Forms
  • Reflective Practice
  • 3. DEVELOPING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLANS
  • Overview
  • Analyze, Reflect, and Document
  • Standards, Performance Areas, and Aspects
  • Sample School Improvement Plan for Boosting Student Test Scores
  • Normal School Improvement Plan
  • School Improvement Plan Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practive
  • 4. OFFICE DESKWORK
  • Overview
  • Your First Day on the Job
  • Steps for Development
  • About the Deskwork Activity
  • Normal School Deskwork
  • Office Deskwork Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practice
  • 5. MAKING ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Overview
  • How Do You See Yourself?
  • Steps for Development
  • About Oral Presentation
  • Normal School Board Presentation
  • Oral Presentation Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practice
  • 6. PROVIDING LEADERSHIP IN GROUPS
  • Overview
  • Steps for Development
  • The Simulation
  • Group Problem-Solving Performance Documentation and Rating
  • Reflective Practive
  • 7. CONDUCTING STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS
  • Overview
  • Interviewing
  • Your Two Interviews
  • 8. PLANNING FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Overview
  • The Proof Is in the Pudding
  • Example of an Action Plan
  • Your Own Action Plan
  • RESOURCES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

Recent Product Reviews:

“User-friendly in assisting school leaders in building their leadership skill base. The professional development opportunities embedded in this book will allow new and veteran educators to reflect and review their daily priorities and plan for future student achievement that involves all levels of the school community.”
Principal Navigator, May 2008, Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators
“Leadership may indeed be difficult to define. This timely text will enable the reader, whether professor or practitioner, to explore and clarify perceptions of the leadership role.”
The School Administrator, January 2004
"What makes this workbook useful is not only that it is linked to ISLLC standards, but that it is structured to develop competencies set out by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Assessment Center."
The Journal of the National Staff Development Council, Fall 2004

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