Helping teachers learn : principal leadership for adult growth and development / / Eleanor Drago Severson ; foreword by Susan Moore Johnson ; cover designer, Tracy E. Miller ; graphic designer, Lisa Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812539403321
• Autore: Drago-Severson Eleanor
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-4833-6061-X; 1-4833-6280-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.20120973
• Soggetti: School principals - United States; Educational leadership - United States; Teachers - In-service training - 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""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""About Professional Development""; ""School Leadership""; ""Organization of the Book""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Developing a New Model of School Leadership for Teacher Learning""; ""The Study""; ""Origins of This Work""; ""Methods""; ""Participant and Site Selection""; ""Research Questions: What Did I Want to Learn?""; ""Data Collection: How Did I Investigate the Research Questions?""; ""Interviews""; ""Documents""; ""Data Analysis: Making Sense of the Learning""; ""Strengths and Limits of This Study""; ""A New Model of Learning-Oriented School Leadership""""The Four Pillars of the Model""; ""Teaming""; ""Providing Leadership Roles""; ""Engaging in Collegial Inquiry""; ""Mentoring""; ""Underpinnings of the Model: Adult Learning and Development""; ""Chapter Summary""; ""Reflective Questions""; ""Chapter 2 - Constructive-Developmental Theory and Adult Development""; ""About Transformational Learning""; ""Keganâ€?s Constructive-Developmental Theory""; ""Basic Principles""; ""Ways of Knowing""; ""Why Ways of Knowing Matter When Supporting Teacher Learning""; ""About Holding Environments""; ""Constructive-Development Theory: A New Foundation for Teacher Learning""""Chapter Summary""; ""Reflective Questions""; ""Chapter 3 - Principals as Climate Shapers""; ""Lessons from Current Research""; ""The Core Principles That Ground Leadership Approaches""; ""Challenges to Building Positive School Cultures""; ""The Pressure to Improve Test Scores""; ""Avoiding a “One Size Fits allâ€? Model: Attending to Individual Needs""; ""Strategies for Building a Positive School Climate""; ""Finding Time and Money""; ""Informal Structures""; ""Providing Food for Conversations""; ""Rewarding Teachers in New Ways""""Honoring Teachersâ€? Strengths and Contributions""; ""Promoting School Mission""; ""Valuing and Modeling “Respect for allâ€?""; ""Growing the School as a Community Center""; ""Attending to Individual Needs and Values""; ""Encouraging Teamwork""; ""Chapter Summary""; ""Reflective Questions""; ""Chapter 4 - The Impact of Financial Resources on Support for Teacher Learning""; ""Challenges Posed by Limited Financial Resources""; ""Providing Adequate Teacher Salaries""; ""Teacher Turnover and Teacher Retention""; ""Budgeting for Teacher Professional Development""""Benefiting from Discretion over Resource Allocation and Hiring""; ""Allocating a Percentage of the Budget to Professional Development""; ""Harnessing Additional Resources for Professional Development""; ""Sharing the Professional Development Budget with Faculty""; ""Establishing Priorities for Limited Resources""; ""Inviting Teachers to Establish Priorities""; ""Using Funding to Hire Additional Staff""; ""Creative Strategies for Coping with Limited Financial Resources""; ""Encouraging Faculty to Write Proposals""; ""Traveling for Development""
• Sommario/riassunto: <span style=""FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: ""times new roman""; mso-fareast-font-family: ""times new roman""; mso-bidi-font-family: ""times new roman""; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"">Drago-Severson presents case studies and examines strategies that help shape a school climate of teacher support, growth, and learning. </span>