Ethical Leadership in Schools

Creating Community in an Environment of Accountability
Kenneth A. Strike - Syracuse University, USA
Leadership for Learning Series
Ethical Leadership in Schools
September 2006 | 176 pages | Corwin
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Discover the link between ethical leadership and successful educational communities!

In an age of accountability and transparency, principals are held responsible for everything from test scores to school finances. Because of this increased accountability, school leaders must regularly confront difficult ethical dilemmas.

Ethical Leadership in Schools teaches principals and aspiring principals the concepts that inform ethical choices in leadership roles. Using brief vignettes, Kenneth A. Strike explores common situations that principals are likely to encounter and presents questions and issues to help them determine the ethical path. As part of the Leadership for Learning initiative of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), this invaluable resource clearly explains complex ideas in an accessible, well-illustrated manner.

To help resolve the dilemmas that challenge every school leader, this book:

  • Guides readers through the process of making ethical decisions
  • Bridges ethics to issues of accountability
  • Provides scenarios that reflect the difficult choices facing principals
  • Supplies the tools to create ethical advice in varied contexts
  • Examines the central principles of fair cooperation

The study of ethics should emphasize what makes a school a good educational community. By creating communities that are competent, caring, and collegial, school leaders will be able to maximize their resources and meet the growing demands of accountability.

Contents

Series Foreword

Series Foreword

Series Introduction

Series Introduction

Preface

Preface

About the Author

About the Author

1. Moral Principles and Moral Principals? An Introduction

1. Moral Principles and Moral Principals? An Introduction

2. What Is Education For?

2. What Is Education For?

3. Constitutional Essentials, Part I: Intellectual Liberty, Religious Freedom, and Intellectual Community

3. Constitutional Essentials, Part I: Intellectual Liberty, Religious Freedom, and Intellectual Community

4. Constitutional Essentials, Part II: Equal Opportunity and Multicultural Community

4. Constitutional Essentials, Part II: Equal Opportunity and Multicultural Community

5. Constitutional Essentials, Part III: Democracy, Community, and Accountability

5. Constitutional Essentials, Part III: Democracy, Community, and Accountability

6. Ethical Decision-Making

6. Ethical Decision-Making

7. Professional Community and the Ethics of Accountability

7. Professional Community and the Ethics of Accountability

References

References

Index

Index

Description

Discover the link between ethical leadership and successful educational communities!

In an age of accountability and transparency, principals are held responsible for everything from test scores to school finances. Because of this increased accountability, school leaders must regularly confront difficult ethical dilemmas.

Ethical Leadership in Schools teaches principals and aspiring principals the concepts that inform ethical choices in leadership roles. Using brief vignettes, Kenneth A. Strike explores common situations that principals are likely to encounter and presents questions and issues to help them determine the ethical path. As part of the Leadership for Learning initiative of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), this invaluable resource clearly explains complex ideas in an accessible, well-illustrated manner.

To help resolve the dilemmas that challenge every school leader, this book:

  • Guides readers through the process of making ethical decisions
  • Bridges ethics to issues of accountability
  • Provides scenarios that reflect the difficult choices facing principals
  • Supplies the tools to create ethical advice in varied contexts
  • Examines the central principles of fair cooperation

The study of ethics should emphasize what makes a school a good educational community. By creating communities that are competent, caring, and collegial, school leaders will be able to maximize their resources and meet the growing demands of accountability.

Contents

Series Foreword

Series Foreword

Series Introduction

Series Introduction

Preface

Preface

About the Author

About the Author

1. Moral Principles and Moral Principals? An Introduction

1. Moral Principles and Moral Principals? An Introduction

2. What Is Education For?

2. What Is Education For?

3. Constitutional Essentials, Part I: Intellectual Liberty, Religious Freedom, and Intellectual Community

3. Constitutional Essentials, Part I: Intellectual Liberty, Religious Freedom, and Intellectual Community

4. Constitutional Essentials, Part II: Equal Opportunity and Multicultural Community

4. Constitutional Essentials, Part II: Equal Opportunity and Multicultural Community

5. Constitutional Essentials, Part III: Democracy, Community, and Accountability

5. Constitutional Essentials, Part III: Democracy, Community, and Accountability

6. Ethical Decision-Making

6. Ethical Decision-Making

7. Professional Community and the Ethics of Accountability

7. Professional Community and the Ethics of Accountability

References

References

Index

Index

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Creating Community in an Environment of Accountability

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September 2006 | 176 pages | Corwin

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Discover the link between ethical leadership and successful educational communities!

In an age of accountability and transparency, principals are held responsible for everything from test scores to school finances. Because of this increased accountability, school leaders must regularly confront difficult ethical dilemmas.

Ethical Leadership in Schools teaches principals and aspiring principals the concepts that inform ethical choices in leadership roles. Using brief vignettes, Kenneth A. Strike explores common situations that principals are likely to encounter and presents questions and issues to help them determine the ethical path. As part of the Leadership for Learning initiative of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), this invaluable resource clearly explains complex ideas in an accessible, well-illustrated manner.

To help resolve the dilemmas that challenge every school leader, this book:

  • Guides readers through the process of making ethical decisions
  • Bridges ethics to issues of accountability
  • Provides scenarios that reflect the difficult choices facing principals
  • Supplies the tools to create ethical advice in varied contexts
  • Examines the central principles of fair cooperation

The study of ethics should emphasize what makes a school a good educational community. By creating communities that are competent, caring, and collegial, school leaders will be able to maximize their resources and meet the growing demands of accountability.


Table Of Contents:

  • Series Foreword
  • Series Introduction
  • Preface
  • About the Author
  • 1. Moral Principles and Moral Principals? An Introduction
  • 2. What Is Education For?
  • 3. Constitutional Essentials, Part I: Intellectual Liberty, Religious Freedom, and Intellectual Community
  • 4. Constitutional Essentials, Part II: Equal Opportunity and Multicultural Community
  • 5. Constitutional Essentials, Part III: Democracy, Community, and Accountability
  • 6. Ethical Decision-Making
  • 7. Professional Community and the Ethics of Accountability
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"I highly recommend this book to school administrators, professors, policy makers and philosophers. the author offers a clear and compelling vision of the aims of education and skilfully describes the process and criteria for ethical leadership."
Sarah J. Noonan, Journal of Moral Education, June 2011
"Strike joins the issues, those clashes between the legislative bodies to whom we are ever more accountable, to the high professional standards of excellence inherent in our mission to create good schools. His book gives leaders the charge and the framework they need to bring balance back to our schools."
The School Administrator, October 2007
"Provides clear explanations and scenarios that reflect real-life choices, explains the necessary tools to give ethical advice in varied contexts, and examines the principles of cooperation."
Curriculum Connections, Spring 2007, School Library Journal
"An important book that will surely become a prized text and be sought out again and again by school leaders who need to remind themselves why they entered the profession and what it takes to remain true to the premise that 'it's all about the children.'"
From the Series Foreword by E. Joseph Schneider

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