Differentiating School Leadership
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"Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. The author's gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making."
—Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational Leadership
Cambridge College
"The vignettes, cases, and stories provide insights into what an educational leader at the school level can face each day. These examples lend themselves to professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role."
—Michelle Gayle, Principal
Griffin Middle School, Tallahassee, FL
Diagnose your school's critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement!
Whether yours is an urban or a rural school, every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of "organizational diagnostics" with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities:
- Preventing school decline
- Turning around a low-performing school
- Sustaining improvements
- Designing a new school
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
Introduction
Part I. The Challenge of School Decline
- 1. Recognizing the Potential for School Decline
- A School on the Brink
- Detecting Vulnerabilities
- The Impact of Inadequate Funding
- The Impact of a Weak Principal
- The Impact of a Change in School Culture
- Meeting the Challenge of School Decline
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 2. Leadership to Prevent School Decline
- Leading Schools That Face Demographic Changes
- The Challenges of Changing Demographics
- School Leadership in the Face of Demographic Change
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part II. The Challenge of School Turnaround
- 3. Identifying the Characteristics of Low-Performing Schools
- A School in Need of Turning Around
- Analyzing the Causes of Low Performance
- Diagnosing School-Based Causes
- Meeting the Challenge of School Turnaround
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 4. Leadership to Turn Around a Low-Performing School
- Targeting Key Conditions
- School Turnaround Leadership
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part III. The Challenge of Sustaining School Improvement
- 5. Reversing School Failure Is Only the First Step
- A Promising Start at Stuart High School
- Determining the Unfinished Agenda
- Meeting the Challenge of Sustained Improvement
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 6. Leadership to Sustain School Improvement
- Building Capacity for Sustained Success
- The Challenges of Sustained School Improvement
- Leadership for the Long Haul
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part IV. The Challenge of Creating a New School
- 7. Leadership for Students Who Need a Different Learning Environment
- Leading by Design
- Meeting the Challenge of Creating a New School
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part V. Leadership Lessons
- 8. Why School Leaders Fail
- Self-Inflicted Problems
- The Greatest Mistake of All
- 9. The Implications of Differentiating Leadership
- Some Practical Consequences
- Last Word
- References
- Index
Additional materials
Description
"Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. The author's gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making."
—Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational Leadership
Cambridge College
"The vignettes, cases, and stories provide insights into what an educational leader at the school level can face each day. These examples lend themselves to professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role."
—Michelle Gayle, Principal
Griffin Middle School, Tallahassee, FL
Diagnose your school's critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement!
Whether yours is an urban or a rural school, every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of "organizational diagnostics" with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities:
- Preventing school decline
- Turning around a low-performing school
- Sustaining improvements
- Designing a new school
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
Introduction
Part I. The Challenge of School Decline
- 1. Recognizing the Potential for School Decline
- A School on the Brink
- Detecting Vulnerabilities
- The Impact of Inadequate Funding
- The Impact of a Weak Principal
- The Impact of a Change in School Culture
- Meeting the Challenge of School Decline
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 2. Leadership to Prevent School Decline
- Leading Schools That Face Demographic Changes
- The Challenges of Changing Demographics
- School Leadership in the Face of Demographic Change
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part II. The Challenge of School Turnaround
- 3. Identifying the Characteristics of Low-Performing Schools
- A School in Need of Turning Around
- Analyzing the Causes of Low Performance
- Diagnosing School-Based Causes
- Meeting the Challenge of School Turnaround
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 4. Leadership to Turn Around a Low-Performing School
- Targeting Key Conditions
- School Turnaround Leadership
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part III. The Challenge of Sustaining School Improvement
- 5. Reversing School Failure Is Only the First Step
- A Promising Start at Stuart High School
- Determining the Unfinished Agenda
- Meeting the Challenge of Sustained Improvement
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 6. Leadership to Sustain School Improvement
- Building Capacity for Sustained Success
- The Challenges of Sustained School Improvement
- Leadership for the Long Haul
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part IV. The Challenge of Creating a New School
- 7. Leadership for Students Who Need a Different Learning Environment
- Leading by Design
- Meeting the Challenge of Creating a New School
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
Part V. Leadership Lessons
- 8. Why School Leaders Fail
- Self-Inflicted Problems
- The Greatest Mistake of All
- 9. The Implications of Differentiating Leadership
- Some Practical Consequences
- Last Word
- References
- Index
Additional materials
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November 2009 | 160 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 28/04/2023 | 9781412970501 | $39.95 |
| Lifetime | 28/04/2023 | 9781452273488 | $36.00 |
"Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. The author's gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making."
—Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational Leadership
Cambridge College
"The vignettes, cases, and stories provide insights into what an educational leader at the school level can face each day. These examples lend themselves to professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role."
—Michelle Gayle, Principal
Griffin Middle School, Tallahassee, FL
Diagnose your school's critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement!
Whether yours is an urban or a rural school, every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of "organizational diagnostics" with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities:
- Preventing school decline
- Turning around a low-performing school
- Sustaining improvements
- Designing a new school
Table Of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Part I. The Challenge of School Decline
- 1. Recognizing the Potential for School Decline
- A School on the Brink
- Detecting Vulnerabilities
- The Impact of Inadequate Funding
- The Impact of a Weak Principal
- The Impact of a Change in School Culture
- Meeting the Challenge of School Decline
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 2. Leadership to Prevent School Decline
- Leading Schools That Face Demographic Changes
- The Challenges of Changing Demographics
- School Leadership in the Face of Demographic Change
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- Part II. The Challenge of School Turnaround
- 3. Identifying the Characteristics of Low-Performing Schools
- A School in Need of Turning Around
- Analyzing the Causes of Low Performance
- Diagnosing School-Based Causes
- Meeting the Challenge of School Turnaround
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 4. Leadership to Turn Around a Low-Performing School
- Targeting Key Conditions
- School Turnaround Leadership
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- Part III. The Challenge of Sustaining School Improvement
- 5. Reversing School Failure Is Only the First Step
- A Promising Start at Stuart High School
- Determining the Unfinished Agenda
- Meeting the Challenge of Sustained Improvement
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- 6. Leadership to Sustain School Improvement
- Building Capacity for Sustained Success
- The Challenges of Sustained School Improvement
- Leadership for the Long Haul
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- Part IV. The Challenge of Creating a New School
- 7. Leadership for Students Who Need a Different Learning Environment
- Leading by Design
- Meeting the Challenge of Creating a New School
- Key Lessons and Next Steps
- Part V. Leadership Lessons
- 8. Why School Leaders Fail
- Self-Inflicted Problems
- The Greatest Mistake of All
- 9. The Implications of Differentiating Leadership
- Some Practical Consequences
- Last Word
- References
- Index