Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools
Robert E. Brower
- North Montgomery Community School Corporation
Bradley V. Balch
- Indiana State University, Terre Haute
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"Public education is constantly evolving, and new challenges require school officials to be insightful, prepared, and innovative. It is because of these changing times that this book, which offers a different view of systems analysis and organizational behavior, is so valuable."
—Frank Bush, Executive Director
Indiana School Boards Association
"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for challenging times."
—Kay Harmless, Interim Director, Indiana Principal Leadership Academy
Indiana Department of Education
What decisions are in the best interest of students, teachers, staff, and others in your school community?
It is essential for every school leader to possess the savvy to effect positive change, raise achievement levels, and foster a positive school climate. Now it seems that the struggle for school leaders to make productive decisions has become clouded with ever-growing uncertainty and skepticism.
Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools emphasizes the need for a resilient decision-making pedagogy—one that helps school leaders find and re-center their approaches to making effective decisions for their schools and districts.
This important resource provides methods and strategies to tackle tough decisions, providing concise step-by-step considerations to transform your decision making. The essential information presented includes:
—Frank Bush, Executive Director
Indiana School Boards Association
"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for challenging times."
—Kay Harmless, Interim Director, Indiana Principal Leadership Academy
Indiana Department of Education
What decisions are in the best interest of students, teachers, staff, and others in your school community?
It is essential for every school leader to possess the savvy to effect positive change, raise achievement levels, and foster a positive school climate. Now it seems that the struggle for school leaders to make productive decisions has become clouded with ever-growing uncertainty and skepticism.
Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools emphasizes the need for a resilient decision-making pedagogy—one that helps school leaders find and re-center their approaches to making effective decisions for their schools and districts.
This important resource provides methods and strategies to tackle tough decisions, providing concise step-by-step considerations to transform your decision making. The essential information presented includes:
- A personal decision-making self-assessment
- Reflective thinking sections for individual reflection and group dialogue
- Discussion of the role of vision and mission
- Ideas on motivation and the capacity for change
- A look at barriers to decision making
- Information on developing relationships with respect and rapport
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Decision-Making Pedagogy: A Leadership Essential
2. Decision-Making Pedagogy: A Leadership Essential
3. Overcoming Internal Obstacles to Decision Making
3. Overcoming Internal Obstacles to Decision Making
4. Overcoming External Barriers to Decision Making
4. Overcoming External Barriers to Decision Making
5. Aligning Decision Making to the Leader's Mission
5. Aligning Decision Making to the Leader's Mission
6. Understanding How Human Nature Affects Decision Making
6. Understanding How Human Nature Affects Decision Making
7. Defining Relationships With Respect and Rapport
7. Defining Relationships With Respect and Rapport
8. Entrust: The Value of Empowerment and Delegation
8. Entrust: The Value of Empowerment and Delegation
9. Creating Motivating Capacities for the Common Good
9. Creating Motivating Capacities for the Common Good
10. The Influence of Capitalism on Decision Making
10. The Influence of Capitalism on Decision Making
11. Refining and Rethinking Change in Education
11. Refining and Rethinking Change in Education
12. Facing the Challenges of Leadership
12. Facing the Challenges of Leadership
13. Leadership for the Common Good: The Essential Imperative
13. Leadership for the Common Good: The Essential Imperative
Resource: Decision Making Self-Assessment
Resource: Decision Making Self-Assessment
Bibliography
Bibliography
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"Public education is constantly evolving, and new challenges require school officials to be insightful, prepared, and innovative. It is because of these changing times that this book, which offers a different view of systems analysis and organizational behavior, is so valuable."
—Frank Bush, Executive Director
Indiana School Boards Association
"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for challenging times."
—Kay Harmless, Interim Director, Indiana Principal Leadership Academy
Indiana Department of Education
What decisions are in the best interest of students, teachers, staff, and others in your school community?
It is essential for every school leader to possess the savvy to effect positive change, raise achievement levels, and foster a positive school climate. Now it seems that the struggle for school leaders to make productive decisions has become clouded with ever-growing uncertainty and skepticism.
Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools emphasizes the need for a resilient decision-making pedagogy—one that helps school leaders find and re-center their approaches to making effective decisions for their schools and districts.
This important resource provides methods and strategies to tackle tough decisions, providing concise step-by-step considerations to transform your decision making. The essential information presented includes:
—Frank Bush, Executive Director
Indiana School Boards Association
"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for challenging times."
—Kay Harmless, Interim Director, Indiana Principal Leadership Academy
Indiana Department of Education
What decisions are in the best interest of students, teachers, staff, and others in your school community?
It is essential for every school leader to possess the savvy to effect positive change, raise achievement levels, and foster a positive school climate. Now it seems that the struggle for school leaders to make productive decisions has become clouded with ever-growing uncertainty and skepticism.
Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools emphasizes the need for a resilient decision-making pedagogy—one that helps school leaders find and re-center their approaches to making effective decisions for their schools and districts.
This important resource provides methods and strategies to tackle tough decisions, providing concise step-by-step considerations to transform your decision making. The essential information presented includes:
- A personal decision-making self-assessment
- Reflective thinking sections for individual reflection and group dialogue
- Discussion of the role of vision and mission
- Ideas on motivation and the capacity for change
- A look at barriers to decision making
- Information on developing relationships with respect and rapport
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Decision-Making Pedagogy: A Leadership Essential
2. Decision-Making Pedagogy: A Leadership Essential
3. Overcoming Internal Obstacles to Decision Making
3. Overcoming Internal Obstacles to Decision Making
4. Overcoming External Barriers to Decision Making
4. Overcoming External Barriers to Decision Making
5. Aligning Decision Making to the Leader's Mission
5. Aligning Decision Making to the Leader's Mission
6. Understanding How Human Nature Affects Decision Making
6. Understanding How Human Nature Affects Decision Making
7. Defining Relationships With Respect and Rapport
7. Defining Relationships With Respect and Rapport
8. Entrust: The Value of Empowerment and Delegation
8. Entrust: The Value of Empowerment and Delegation
9. Creating Motivating Capacities for the Common Good
9. Creating Motivating Capacities for the Common Good
10. The Influence of Capitalism on Decision Making
10. The Influence of Capitalism on Decision Making
11. Refining and Rethinking Change in Education
11. Refining and Rethinking Change in Education
12. Facing the Challenges of Leadership
12. Facing the Challenges of Leadership
13. Leadership for the Common Good: The Essential Imperative
13. Leadership for the Common Good: The Essential Imperative
Resource: Decision Making Self-Assessment
Resource: Decision Making Self-Assessment
Bibliography
Bibliography
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools
April 2005 | 144 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412914864 | $75.95 |
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412914871 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781483361482 | $35.00 |
"Public education is constantly evolving, and new challenges require school officials to be insightful, prepared, and innovative. It is because of these changing times that this book, which offers a different view of systems analysis and organizational behavior, is so valuable."
—Frank Bush, Executive Director
Indiana School Boards Association
"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for challenging times."
—Kay Harmless, Interim Director, Indiana Principal Leadership Academy
Indiana Department of Education
What decisions are in the best interest of students, teachers, staff, and others in your school community?
It is essential for every school leader to possess the savvy to effect positive change, raise achievement levels, and foster a positive school climate. Now it seems that the struggle for school leaders to make productive decisions has become clouded with ever-growing uncertainty and skepticism.
Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools emphasizes the need for a resilient decision-making pedagogy—one that helps school leaders find and re-center their approaches to making effective decisions for their schools and districts.
This important resource provides methods and strategies to tackle tough decisions, providing concise step-by-step considerations to transform your decision making. The essential information presented includes:
—Frank Bush, Executive Director
Indiana School Boards Association
"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for challenging times."
—Kay Harmless, Interim Director, Indiana Principal Leadership Academy
Indiana Department of Education
What decisions are in the best interest of students, teachers, staff, and others in your school community?
It is essential for every school leader to possess the savvy to effect positive change, raise achievement levels, and foster a positive school climate. Now it seems that the struggle for school leaders to make productive decisions has become clouded with ever-growing uncertainty and skepticism.
Transformational Leadership & Decision Making in Schools emphasizes the need for a resilient decision-making pedagogy—one that helps school leaders find and re-center their approaches to making effective decisions for their schools and districts.
This important resource provides methods and strategies to tackle tough decisions, providing concise step-by-step considerations to transform your decision making. The essential information presented includes:
- A personal decision-making self-assessment
- Reflective thinking sections for individual reflection and group dialogue
- Discussion of the role of vision and mission
- Ideas on motivation and the capacity for change
- A look at barriers to decision making
- Information on developing relationships with respect and rapport
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Decision-Making Pedagogy: A Leadership Essential
- 3. Overcoming Internal Obstacles to Decision Making
- 4. Overcoming External Barriers to Decision Making
- 5. Aligning Decision Making to the Leader's Mission
- 6. Understanding How Human Nature Affects Decision Making
- 7. Defining Relationships With Respect and Rapport
- 8. Entrust: The Value of Empowerment and Delegation
- 9. Creating Motivating Capacities for the Common Good
- 10. The Influence of Capitalism on Decision Making
- 11. Refining and Rethinking Change in Education
- 12. Facing the Challenges of Leadership
- 13. Leadership for the Common Good: The Essential Imperative
- Resource: Decision Making Self-Assessment
- Bibliography
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
"The authors provide a self-assessment to help school leaders reflect on their own effectiveness in decision making. May be of interest to school leaders, and could prompt interesting professional growth conversations. Could also be an effective resource for graduate coursework in educational leadership."
Principal Navigator, January 2007
"Finally-a book outlining how to 'lead' in education, by authors whose knowledge comes frontline practice and success."
Senator Luke Kenley, State of Indiana
"Public education is constantly evolving, and new challenges require school officials to be insightful, well planned, and innovative. It is because of these changing times that this book, which offers a different view of systems analysis and organizational behavior, is so valuable."
Frank Bush, Executive Director, Indiana School Boards Association
"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for challenging times."
Kay Harmless, Interim Director, Indiana Principal Leadership Academy, Indiana Department of Education
"A great read for leaders desiring to practically apply principles of sincerity, integrity, and commitment to an organization's culture."
James Thompson, President, Gibraltar Design, Inc.