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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822074003321

Autore

Ramsey Robert D.

Titolo

What matters most for school leaders : 25 reminders of what is really important / / Robert D. Ramsey ; acquisitions editor Elizabeth Brenkus ; copy editor Edward Meidenbauer ; cover designer Anthony Paular

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2005

ISBN

1-4833-6333-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

371.2011

Soggetti

School management and organization - United States

School administrators - 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: Why This Book? Why Now?""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction: Some Things Never Change""; ""Chapter 1 - What You Do is Special""; ""Chapter 2 - Primero Los Ninos: Children First""; ""Chapter 3 - There are No Throwaway Kids""; ""Chapter 4 - Strong Schools Make a Strong Nation""; ""Chapter 5 - Schools are Sacred Places of Hope""; ""Chapter 6 - Teaching is the Greatest Profession""; ""Chapter 7 - Passion is the Engine That Drives School Leadership""; ""Chapter 8 - What Matters Most Costs the Least""

""Chapter 9 - Schools are Only as Strong as the Community Allows""""Chapter 10 - When it�s Your Own Kid, it's Different""; ""Chapter 11 - That Pesky Golden Rule Still Works""; ""Chapter 12 - Someone Has to be the Grown-up""; ""Chapter 13 - Good Leaders Learn to “K.I.S.S.� and Enjoy the Happiness of Subtraction""; ""Chapter 14 - You can�t have too Much Integrity""; ""Chapter 15 - Common Sense is Better than a College Degree: The Grandma Test""; ""Chapter 16 - Sometimes Kids Need Candy More Than Milk""; ""Chapter 17 - A Chicken Doesn�t Stop Scratching Just Because Worms are Scarce""

""Chapter 18 - The Reverse Side has a Reverse Side""""Chapter 19 - The Best Leader is a “Servant Leader�""; ""Chapter 20 - Your Mother Didn�t Raise You to be a Bureaucrat""; ""Chapter 21 - Politicians and



Armchair Quarterbacks Donâ€?t Get itâ€?So You Have to""; ""Chapter 22 - If Youâ€?re Not Having Fun, Youâ€?re Doing it Wrong""; ""Chapter 23 - Things are Never as Bad as You Think They are;  and Youâ€?re Braver, Stronger, and Smarter than You Imagine""; ""Chapter 24 - You Work to Live, Not Live to Work""; ""Chapter 25 - Itâ€?s Worth it!""; ""A Final Word: The Ouija Board Effect""

""Resource A: What Others Say about What Matters Most (in School and in Life)""""Resource B: Other Books about What Matters Most""; ""Resource C: Other Lasting Truths That Couldn�t be Squeezed Into This Little Book""; ""Index""