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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797593203321

Autore

Brubaker Dale L.

Titolo

Staying on track : an educational leader's guide to preventing derailment and ensuring personal and organizational success / / Dale L. Brubaker, Larry D. Coble ; cover designer, Scott Van Atta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2007

ISBN

1-4833-6439-9

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

371.201

Soggetti

School management and organization - Vocational guidance - United States

School administrators - Employment - United States

Career development - United States

Educational leadership - United States

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 Authors""; ""Prologue: A Cautionary Tale""; ""Chapter 1 - Accountability and High-Stakes Testing""; ""The National Level""; ""The State Level""; ""The School-System Level""; ""The School Level""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2 - Self-Assessment Checklists""; ""Checklist A""; ""Checklist B""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3 - What Causes Educational Leaders to Derail?""; ""Causes of Assistant Principal and Principal Derailment""; ""Causes of Superintendent Derailment""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4 - Antiderailment Strategies""

""The Recommendations""""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 5 - Professional and Personal Plans for Development""; ""What Works and Doesn't Work in Professional Development""; ""Professional Development Recommendations for a School or School System""; ""A Personal Development Plan for Improvement""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 6 - Preparing Teacher Leaders for Tomorrow's Leadership Positions""; ""A Grounding for Teacher Leader Development""; ""The Realities of the Context in Which Teachers Lead""; ""The Teacher Leader and the Presentation of Self""; ""The Teacher Leader and Meetings""



""The Teacher Leader as Networker""""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7 - The Seasons of an Educational Leader's Career""; ""Preparing the Way to Become an Educational Administrator""; ""Entering Educational Administration""; ""Settling in�The Middle Years""; ""The Later Years as an Educational Administrator""; ""Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Resources""; ""References""; ""Index""