Leading Good Schools to Greatness
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"This book is right on target with its thought-provoking ideas and concepts on the characteristics of successful educational leaders."
—Thomas F. Leahy, Consultant, Executive Search Department, Illinois Association of School Boards
"Our best teachers obtain great results by building positive relationships with their students. Gray and Streshly show how our best principals do the same thing and how these behaviors can be learned and practiced."
—Kevin Singer, Superintendent, Topeka Public Schools, KS
Build your capacity to lead your school to greatness!
Great leaders are made, not born. Written by the authors of From Good Schools to Great Schools, this sequel shows how great school leaders can be developed and how leaders can acquire the powerful personal leadership characteristics that the best administrators use to lead their schools to greatness.
Based on sound strategies and the work of Jim Collins, Susan Penny Gray and William A. Streshly tackle how to build relationships, communicate effectively, exercise your personal will with humility, face brutal facts, get faculty on board, and build a school culture of self-discipline. Chapters include:
- Case studies that provide an ongoing context for professional learning
- Self-assessments that reveal your inherent leadership dispositions
- Interviews and tips from exceptional principals in the field
- Strategies for developing specific leadership qualities
- Application exercises that reinforce how to put the strategies into action
- Reflection activities that encourage professional growth
Appropriate for both individual and group professional development, Leading Good Schools to Greatness reveals how leadership skills can be learned and used to take your school to the next level.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword by George Manthey
Foreword by George Manthey
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
- 1. The Skills for Leading Good Schools to Greatness Can Be Learned
- Applying Good to Great Research to School Principals
- Conversations With Highly Successful Principals
- Administrator Preparation Program Reform
- Reflection
- 2. First, Build Relationships
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- A Behavior Different From That of Effective Private Sector Executives
- The Three Key Elements Needed to Build Relationships
- Constructing Your Personal Profile of a Highly Effective Principal
- Part I: Building Trust
- Part II: Engaging in Effective Interpersonal Communication
- Part III: Encouraging Constructive Conflict Around Ideas
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 3. How to Exercise Your Professional Will With Humility
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- Research on the Risks of Charismatic Leadership For Schools
- Distinguishing Personal Humility Is Not So Easy
- What Highly Successful Principals Say Conveying a Duality of Professional Will and Personal Humility
- Strategies for Exhibiting Professional Will While Remaining Humble
- Practical Application of Strategies for Exhibiting a Duality of Professional Will and Personal Humility
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 4. How to Face the Brutal Facts…Then Do Something about Them
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on Confronting the Brutal Facts and Unwavering Resolve
- What Highly Successful Principals Say About Confronting the Brutal Facts
- Strategies for Confronting the Brutal Facts and Then Doing Something About Them
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 5. How to Get the Right Faculty on Board
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on Getting the Right People
- What the Right Place for the Right People Is
- The Wrong People for the School
- What Highly Successful Principals Say about Getting the Right People
- Strategies for Getting (and Keeping) the Right People
- Practical Application of Strategies for Getting the Right Faculty on Board
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 6. How to Find and Promote the Hedgehog Concept in Your School
- Reflection
- Educators Differ from CEOs
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- Research on the Hedgehog Concept
- Highly Successful Principals Exhibit the Hedgehog Concept
- Strategies for Understanding and Executing the Hedgehog Concept in Schools
- One School’s Process for Developing New Mission and Vision Statements
- Practical Application of Strategies for Finding and Promoting the Hedgehog Concept
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 7. How to Build a School-Wide Culture of Self-Discipline
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on a Culture of Self-Discipline
- What Highly Successful Principals Do to Build a School-Wide Culture of Self-Discipline
- Practical Application of Strategies for Building a Culture of Self-Discipline
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 8. The Road Ahead
- Research on Leadership Preparation
- What to Look for in a Principal Preparation Program
- Tips to Help New Principals Succeed
- A Final Word
Resource A: Research Methodology
Resource A: Research Methodology
Resource B: Interview Participant Selection
Resource B: Interview Participant Selection
Resource C: Principal Interview Questions Derived From Collins’ (2001) CEO Interview Questions and Demographic Questionnaire
Resource C: Principal Interview Questions Derived From Collins’ (2001) CEO Interview Questions and Demographic Questionnaire
References
References
Suggested Readings
Suggested Readings
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"This book is right on target with its thought-provoking ideas and concepts on the characteristics of successful educational leaders."
—Thomas F. Leahy, Consultant, Executive Search Department, Illinois Association of School Boards
"Our best teachers obtain great results by building positive relationships with their students. Gray and Streshly show how our best principals do the same thing and how these behaviors can be learned and practiced."
—Kevin Singer, Superintendent, Topeka Public Schools, KS
Build your capacity to lead your school to greatness!
Great leaders are made, not born. Written by the authors of From Good Schools to Great Schools, this sequel shows how great school leaders can be developed and how leaders can acquire the powerful personal leadership characteristics that the best administrators use to lead their schools to greatness.
Based on sound strategies and the work of Jim Collins, Susan Penny Gray and William A. Streshly tackle how to build relationships, communicate effectively, exercise your personal will with humility, face brutal facts, get faculty on board, and build a school culture of self-discipline. Chapters include:
- Case studies that provide an ongoing context for professional learning
- Self-assessments that reveal your inherent leadership dispositions
- Interviews and tips from exceptional principals in the field
- Strategies for developing specific leadership qualities
- Application exercises that reinforce how to put the strategies into action
- Reflection activities that encourage professional growth
Appropriate for both individual and group professional development, Leading Good Schools to Greatness reveals how leadership skills can be learned and used to take your school to the next level.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword by George Manthey
Foreword by George Manthey
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
- 1. The Skills for Leading Good Schools to Greatness Can Be Learned
- Applying Good to Great Research to School Principals
- Conversations With Highly Successful Principals
- Administrator Preparation Program Reform
- Reflection
- 2. First, Build Relationships
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- A Behavior Different From That of Effective Private Sector Executives
- The Three Key Elements Needed to Build Relationships
- Constructing Your Personal Profile of a Highly Effective Principal
- Part I: Building Trust
- Part II: Engaging in Effective Interpersonal Communication
- Part III: Encouraging Constructive Conflict Around Ideas
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 3. How to Exercise Your Professional Will With Humility
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- Research on the Risks of Charismatic Leadership For Schools
- Distinguishing Personal Humility Is Not So Easy
- What Highly Successful Principals Say Conveying a Duality of Professional Will and Personal Humility
- Strategies for Exhibiting Professional Will While Remaining Humble
- Practical Application of Strategies for Exhibiting a Duality of Professional Will and Personal Humility
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 4. How to Face the Brutal Facts…Then Do Something about Them
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on Confronting the Brutal Facts and Unwavering Resolve
- What Highly Successful Principals Say About Confronting the Brutal Facts
- Strategies for Confronting the Brutal Facts and Then Doing Something About Them
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 5. How to Get the Right Faculty on Board
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on Getting the Right People
- What the Right Place for the Right People Is
- The Wrong People for the School
- What Highly Successful Principals Say about Getting the Right People
- Strategies for Getting (and Keeping) the Right People
- Practical Application of Strategies for Getting the Right Faculty on Board
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 6. How to Find and Promote the Hedgehog Concept in Your School
- Reflection
- Educators Differ from CEOs
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- Research on the Hedgehog Concept
- Highly Successful Principals Exhibit the Hedgehog Concept
- Strategies for Understanding and Executing the Hedgehog Concept in Schools
- One School’s Process for Developing New Mission and Vision Statements
- Practical Application of Strategies for Finding and Promoting the Hedgehog Concept
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 7. How to Build a School-Wide Culture of Self-Discipline
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on a Culture of Self-Discipline
- What Highly Successful Principals Do to Build a School-Wide Culture of Self-Discipline
- Practical Application of Strategies for Building a Culture of Self-Discipline
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 8. The Road Ahead
- Research on Leadership Preparation
- What to Look for in a Principal Preparation Program
- Tips to Help New Principals Succeed
- A Final Word
Resource A: Research Methodology
Resource A: Research Methodology
Resource B: Interview Participant Selection
Resource B: Interview Participant Selection
Resource C: Principal Interview Questions Derived From Collins’ (2001) CEO Interview Questions and Demographic Questionnaire
Resource C: Principal Interview Questions Derived From Collins’ (2001) CEO Interview Questions and Demographic Questionnaire
References
References
Suggested Readings
Suggested Readings
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Leading Good Schools to Greatness
Mastering What Great Principals Do Well
September 2010 | 208 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412979788 | $42.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781452237497 | $39.00 |
"This book is right on target with its thought-provoking ideas and concepts on the characteristics of successful educational leaders."
—Thomas F. Leahy, Consultant, Executive Search Department, Illinois Association of School Boards
"Our best teachers obtain great results by building positive relationships with their students. Gray and Streshly show how our best principals do the same thing and how these behaviors can be learned and practiced."
—Kevin Singer, Superintendent, Topeka Public Schools, KS
Build your capacity to lead your school to greatness!
Great leaders are made, not born. Written by the authors of From Good Schools to Great Schools, this sequel shows how great school leaders can be developed and how leaders can acquire the powerful personal leadership characteristics that the best administrators use to lead their schools to greatness.
Based on sound strategies and the work of Jim Collins, Susan Penny Gray and William A. Streshly tackle how to build relationships, communicate effectively, exercise your personal will with humility, face brutal facts, get faculty on board, and build a school culture of self-discipline. Chapters include:
- Case studies that provide an ongoing context for professional learning
- Self-assessments that reveal your inherent leadership dispositions
- Interviews and tips from exceptional principals in the field
- Strategies for developing specific leadership qualities
- Application exercises that reinforce how to put the strategies into action
- Reflection activities that encourage professional growth
Appropriate for both individual and group professional development, Leading Good Schools to Greatness reveals how leadership skills can be learned and used to take your school to the next level.
Table Of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword by George Manthey
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1. The Skills for Leading Good Schools to Greatness Can Be Learned
- Applying Good to Great Research to School Principals
- Conversations With Highly Successful Principals
- Administrator Preparation Program Reform
- Reflection
- 2. First, Build Relationships
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- A Behavior Different From That of Effective Private Sector Executives
- The Three Key Elements Needed to Build Relationships
- Constructing Your Personal Profile of a Highly Effective Principal
- Part I: Building Trust
- Part II: Engaging in Effective Interpersonal Communication
- Part III: Encouraging Constructive Conflict Around Ideas
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 3. How to Exercise Your Professional Will With Humility
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- Research on the Risks of Charismatic Leadership For Schools
- Distinguishing Personal Humility Is Not So Easy
- What Highly Successful Principals Say Conveying a Duality of Professional Will and Personal Humility
- Strategies for Exhibiting Professional Will While Remaining Humble
- Practical Application of Strategies for Exhibiting a Duality of Professional Will and Personal Humility
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 4. How to Face the Brutal Facts…Then Do Something about Them
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on Confronting the Brutal Facts and Unwavering Resolve
- What Highly Successful Principals Say About Confronting the Brutal Facts
- Strategies for Confronting the Brutal Facts and Then Doing Something About Them
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 5. How to Get the Right Faculty on Board
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on Getting the Right People
- What the Right Place for the Right People Is
- The Wrong People for the School
- What Highly Successful Principals Say about Getting the Right People
- Strategies for Getting (and Keeping) the Right People
- Practical Application of Strategies for Getting the Right Faculty on Board
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 6. How to Find and Promote the Hedgehog Concept in Your School
- Reflection
- Educators Differ from CEOs
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- Research on the Hedgehog Concept
- Highly Successful Principals Exhibit the Hedgehog Concept
- Strategies for Understanding and Executing the Hedgehog Concept in Schools
- One School’s Process for Developing New Mission and Vision Statements
- Practical Application of Strategies for Finding and Promoting the Hedgehog Concept
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 7. How to Build a School-Wide Culture of Self-Discipline
- Reflection
- Assess Your Leadership Capacity
- The Research on a Culture of Self-Discipline
- What Highly Successful Principals Do to Build a School-Wide Culture of Self-Discipline
- Practical Application of Strategies for Building a Culture of Self-Discipline
- Ask an Effective Principal
- Reflection
- 8. The Road Ahead
- Research on Leadership Preparation
- What to Look for in a Principal Preparation Program
- Tips to Help New Principals Succeed
- A Final Word
- Resource A: Research Methodology
- Resource B: Interview Participant Selection
- Resource C: Principal Interview Questions Derived From Collins’ (2001) CEO Interview Questions and Demographic Questionnaire
- References
- Suggested Readings
- Index