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

• Autore: Cooke Gwendolyn J.
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007; ©2007
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.2011
• Soggetto topico: School principals - United States; Education, Urban - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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 Studentsâ€? 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""; ""Itâ€?s a Big Job, and Youâ€?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 Principalsâ€? 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""; ""Donâ€?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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Keys to success for urban school principals
• ISBN: 1-4833-6228-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480384803321
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