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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480371503321

Autore

Creighton Theodore B.

Titolo

Leading from below the surface : a non-traditional approach to school leadership / / Theodore Creighton ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4833-6276-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Disciplina

371.2012

Soggetti

School principals

School management and organization

Educational leadership

Decision making

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""What This Book is Not about""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Introduction""; ""First, What is the Surface?""; ""OK, Now What Does “Below the Surface� Mean?""; ""Leadership is both Objective and Subjective""; ""Chapter 2 - What Does Traditional Leadership Look Like, and How Did We Get Here from There?""; ""Behavioral Leadership""; ""Situational Leadership""; ""Contingency Leadership Theory""; ""Path-Goal Theory of Leadership""; ""Transformational Leadership Theory""

""A Conceptual Framework for Leading from below the Surface""""Chapter 3 - What is Leading from below the Surface?""; ""Bending the Rules Without Breaking Them""; ""Managing Your Portfolio of Political Capital""; ""Bourdieu and Capital""; ""Chapter 4 - Evidence-Based Decision Making""; ""Below the Surface: Data- or Evidence-Based?""; ""Data-Driven vs. Evidence-Based Decision Making""; ""Attendance Rates vs. Absence Rates""; ""Narrowing the Achievement Gap""; ""Dropout Rate: 2% or 28%?""; ""Concluding Thoughts""; ""Chapter 5 - Institutional Effectiveness vs. Strategy""

""A Closer Look at Strategy""""How Does Strategy Relate to School



Leadership?""; ""Describing the Strategy""; ""Identifying Positive and Negative Forces""; ""Chapter 6 - Cooperation vs. Collaboration""; ""Closing Thoughts""; ""Chapter 7 - Looking beyond the Obvious""; ""From Superintendent to Secretary of Education""; ""The SAT Story""; ""Not Settling for Embroidering the Edges""; ""Concluding Thoughts""; ""Chapter 8 - Creating Leadership Behaviors: A Leadership Practice Field""; ""OK, On to a Leadership Practice Field""; ""Defining a Practice""; ""A Practice Field Further Defined""

""Practicing Leading from below the Surface""""Practicing Listening""; ""Practicing Respecting""; ""Chapter 9 - Implications for Practicing School Administrators""; ""Accountability""; ""Leading from below the Surface""; ""The Disjuncture between Societal Use and School Use of Technology""; ""The Virtual Classroom""; ""References ""; ""Index ""

Sommario/riassunto

Deepen your success with a new, reality-driven model for leadership that tailors corporate management know-how for the classroom and beyond.