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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480384803321

Autore

Cooke Gwendolyn J.

Titolo

Keys to success for urban school principals / / Gwendolyn J. Cooke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4833-6228-0

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

371.2011

Soggetti

School principals - United States

Education, Urban - United States

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""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction""; ""No Child Left Behind""; ""Overview of Chapters and How to Use This Book""; ""Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leadership""; ""Chapter 1 - Control: Managing the School Community""; ""Establishing Control""; ""Time Management""; ""The Virtues of the Routine""; ""Choice Not Chance""; ""Leadership Standards and Expectations""; ""Excellence Theory""; ""Excellence in School Leadership""; ""Problems of Practice""; ""Professional Development Options""

""Control Surveys for School Assessment Use""""Control Reflective Practice Exercises""; ""Chapter 2 - Caring: Addressing the Affective Domain of Leadership Success""; ""Affective Aspects of the Standards-Based School Environment""; ""Importance of Affective Focus in School Reform""; ""Inviting School Success""; ""Personalizing Schools to Meet Students� Needs""; ""Managing by Walking around""; ""Being Up Front and Personal with Faculty and Staff Culture""; ""On Becoming a Soulful School""; ""Caring Reflective Practice Exercises""; ""Chapter 3 - Change: Leading in a New Direction""

""Responding to Forces of Change""""Taking Charge of Change""; ""Planning for and Bringing about Change""; ""Concerns-Based Adoption Model""; ""Consensus-Based Adoption Model""; ""Overcoming



Resistance to Change""; ""Study Circles: Fables""; ""Change Reflective Practice Exercises""; ""Chapter 4 - Charisma: Leading with Personality""; ""It�s a Big Job, and You�re the One Who can Do it""; ""The Principalship in its Contemporary Context""; ""Charisma by any Other Name""; ""Heroic Leadership""; ""Charismatic Leaders""; ""Following the Leader""; ""The Need for Charismatic Leaders""

""Urban Principals� Academy""""Charisma Reflective Practice Exercises""; ""Chapter 5 - Communication: Sharing Vision and Commitment for Success""; ""The Principal as Communicator""; ""Formulating and Promoting a Vision""; ""Collegiality Conversations""; ""Communicating with Students and Parents""; ""Communicating with Partners""; ""Six Communication Traps""; ""Communication Reflective Practice Exercises""; ""Chapter 6 - Curriculum: The Tool for Instructional Leadership""; ""Attaining Student Achievement through Instructional Leadership""; ""Professional and Personal Readiness""

""Professional Associations Target Curriculum Leadership""""Curriculum Leadership Research""; ""Three Overlapping Approaches""; ""Subtle Clues""; ""The Hidden Curriculum""; ""Curriculum Monitoring""; ""Curriculum Reflective Practice Exercises""; ""Chapter 7 - Courage: Risk Taking and Responsibility""; ""Learning to Take Risks as a School Leader""; ""Don�t be Afraid to Fail""; ""Plan, Do, Study, Act""; ""Yin Yang: A Perspective for Risk Taking""; ""Build Awareness""; ""Encouraging others to Abandon the Known""; ""Think Like a Genius""; ""Celebrate Excellence""

""Removing Obstacles to Ensure Increased Student Achievement""