Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity
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Meet the challenges of today's changing schools through shared leadership!
Today's rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.
Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:
- The characteristics and nature of effective leadership
- Sustainable leadership built on shared vision
- Improving classroom teaching and student learning
- Large-scale reforms that benefit the entire school community
- Recruiting and developing new leaders, and much more!
This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Introduction
- 1. What I Believe About Leadership Development
- 2. Reconceptualizing the Road Toward Leadership Capacity
- 3. The Moral Imperative Revisited: Achieving Large-Scale Reform
- 4. Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning
- 5. Liberating Leadership Potential: Designing for Leadership Growth
- 6. Against the Odds: Successful Leadership in Challenging Schools
- 7. Developing Leaders of Learners
- 8. Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): The Trajectory of Young Leaders
- 9. Developing and Sustaining Leadership Capacity
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
Meet the challenges of today's changing schools through shared leadership!
Today's rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.
Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:
- The characteristics and nature of effective leadership
- Sustainable leadership built on shared vision
- Improving classroom teaching and student learning
- Large-scale reforms that benefit the entire school community
- Recruiting and developing new leaders, and much more!
This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Introduction
- 1. What I Believe About Leadership Development
- 2. Reconceptualizing the Road Toward Leadership Capacity
- 3. The Moral Imperative Revisited: Achieving Large-Scale Reform
- 4. Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning
- 5. Liberating Leadership Potential: Designing for Leadership Growth
- 6. Against the Odds: Successful Leadership in Challenging Schools
- 7. Developing Leaders of Learners
- 8. Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): The Trajectory of Young Leaders
- 9. Developing and Sustaining Leadership Capacity
Index
Index
Additional materials
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Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity
May 2009 | 200 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412949361 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781452261126 | $35.00 |
Meet the challenges of today's changing schools through shared leadership!
Today's rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.
Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:
- The characteristics and nature of effective leadership
- Sustainable leadership built on shared vision
- Improving classroom teaching and student learning
- Large-scale reforms that benefit the entire school community
- Recruiting and developing new leaders, and much more!
This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.
Table Of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. What I Believe About Leadership Development
- 2. Reconceptualizing the Road Toward Leadership Capacity
- 3. The Moral Imperative Revisited: Achieving Large-Scale Reform
- 4. Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning
- 5. Liberating Leadership Potential: Designing for Leadership Growth
- 6. Against the Odds: Successful Leadership in Challenging Schools
- 7. Developing Leaders of Learners
- 8. Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): The Trajectory of Young Leaders
- 9. Developing and Sustaining Leadership Capacity
- Index