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The Principal and School Improvement

Author : Amanda Heffernan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811314950
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Principal and School Improvement written by Amanda Heffernan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the localised effects of reform by exploring the impact of a school improvement policy agenda on the work of three experienced principals. It presents three longitudinal case studies within a shared specific leadership context in Queensland, Australia. The case studies enable an exploration of the way the principalship in this context has evolved over time, providing deep insights into the practices and beliefs of three experienced school leaders working in a period of rapid and urgent systemic reform. The nature of global reform policy borrowing means that the research and the findings within this monograph are relevant for international audiences. The book describes a new way to understand and theorise the effects of reform policies and associated pressures on school leaders. Using post-structural theory, it provides a better understanding of the specific effects of reform policy ensembles, particularly when combined with an analysis of the ways policy and discourse work together at a wider level to create an environment that disciplines the principalship. Further, it sheds lights on the means of complying with or contesting policy influences and how the work of leaders has changed over time.

How School Principals Use Their Time

Author : Moosung Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032001678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book How School Principals Use Their Time written by Moosung Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting international evidence, from school systems across the globe, this book documents patterns, causes, and effects of school principals' time use, building a case for the implications for school improvement, administration, and leadership. This edited volume offers an unparalleled set of chapters that delve into conceptual and methodological issues in researching principals' time use. Chapters consist of empirical studies that advance fresh perspectives and build empirical ground on how principals use time across different school systems in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, and North America. This unique book, is a useful resource for researchers and educators, capturing the geographically diverse contexts of principal time use. This work makes a significant contribution to the field of school improvement, administration, and leadership with both theoretical depth and empirical grounding.

Handbook of School Improvement

Author : Joseph Blase
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1412979978
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of School Improvement written by Joseph Blase and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing insights from 20 successful principals, this illuminating book presents real-world strategies that help school leaders refine their administrative skills and generate dramatic improvements in schoolwide achievement.

Principal Professional Development

Author : Joseph Sanfelippo
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1483379906
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Principal Professional Development written by Joseph Sanfelippo and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build transformational leadership using social media! Close the gap of knowledge and experience between educators and learn how you really can find the time to connect with other leaders using social media. This highly instructive and conversational guide makes it easy. Filled with real-world experiences from leaders all over the country, you’ll build balanced and effective leadership skills, grow a network of support, and model your vision for a thriving community of learners. Includes a handy start-up guide to help busy principals: Connect virtually with K-12 leaders Model continuous learning Find solutions using Twitter, Google Hangouts, and more

Instructional Leadership for School Improvement

Author : Sally J. Zepeda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317919300
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Instructional Leadership for School Improvement written by Sally J. Zepeda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the principal’s role in meeting high expectations for student achievement. It provides detailed tips and strategies to show you what principals need to do to: assess and promote a culture and climate for school improvement, build teams and support the work their work, create the conditions so that teacher leaders can emerge, and monitor school improvement efforts

The School Improvement Planning Handbook

Author : Daniel Linden Duke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1610486315
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The School Improvement Planning Handbook written by Daniel Linden Duke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing and updating school improvement plans is an annual ritual for virtually all school principals and their school improvement committees. Still, large numbers of schools continue to produce disappointing outcomes. The authors believe that part of the problem is the result of plans that focus on the wrong targets and that rely on ineffective strategies for improvement. To help principals and their school improvement committees develop and implement plans with a greater likelihood of success, the authors offer a step-by-step process for school improvement planning. They go on to pinpoint specific school improvement goals, including raising reading and mathematics achievement, building robust school cultures, addressing the needs of English language learners, improving instruction, and reducing absenteeism and dropouts. For each goal, a variety of objectives and proven strategies is presented along with sample school improvement plans. The book addresses the differences in planning to turn around a low-performing school, planning to sustain improvements over time, and planning to move a good school to a great school.

Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement

Author : Linda Lambert
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 0871207788
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement written by Linda Lambert and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2003 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses charts and action steps to analyze a school's leadership capacity and explores how to sustain a learning community where everyone takes ownership of improvement efforts.

Exploring Principal Development and Teacher Outcomes

Author : Peter Youngs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000292576
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Principal Development and Teacher Outcomes written by Peter Youngs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines innovative ways of preparing, supervising, and evaluating principals and explores factors that promote effective leadership practices. Chapter authors consider how principals’ leadership practices affect teachers’ instruction, satisfaction, commitment, retention, and effectiveness, and present evidence that principals can influence key student outcomes as well. Covering topics such as school leaders’ use of time, their efforts to reduce implicit bias, how leadership practices are associated with teachers’ workplace attitudes, leadership and student achievement, and how school leaders can best be supported under new federal legislation, this volume is a “must read” for educational leadership and policy faculty, school and district administrators, and researchers committed to promoting effective principal leadership.

Design-Based School Improvement

Author : Rick Mintrop
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1612509045
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Design-Based School Improvement written by Rick Mintrop and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of the effort to enact and scale up successful school reforms is the need for more robust links between research and practice. One promising approach is design development, a methodology widely used in other fields and only recently adapted to education, which offers a disciplined process for identifying practical problems, assessing evidence of outcomes, accounting for variability in implementation and results, and establishing a foundation for broader understanding of the problem and proposed solutions. This exciting new book provides a practical guide for education leaders who are seeking to address issues of equity in their schools and want to pursue this approach. The book provides a step-by-step description of the process, augmented by case studies of four education leaders: Christine, a middle school principal who is concerned with the volume of disciplinary referrals in her school; Michelle, an elementary school principal who wants to address achievement gaps; Eric, an assistant superintendent who wants to improve the quality of principals’ instructional feedback to teachers; and Nora, a high school principal who is concerned about the use of racial and homophobic slurs in the hallways. The book follows each of these leaders as they formulate and refine interventions to address these problems. Design-Based School Improvement also includes a series of “excursions into theory” that discuss the research basis for design-based improvement. The author—a leading thinker about policy implementation and school reform—shows a profound appreciation for the complexity of work in schools and the deep and sustained thinking entailed in undertaking productive change. By bringing theory to life and putting it in the hands of skilled practitioners, this book promises to become an invaluable resource for education leaders seeking to solve problems of equity and social justice in schools.

Align the Design

Author : Nancy J. Mooney
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 141661687X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Align the Design written by Nancy J. Mooney and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is our THIRD school improvement plan! Why aren't we seeing any results?" "We have all of this data, but we don't know what to do with it!" "What does this workshop have to do with the goals we set for our school? Many of today's school leaders have all the latest tools, techniques, and programs for school improvement. Unfortunately, some leaders fail to create real, sustainable results for their schools because they use one or two "flavor-of-the-month" strategies without connecting all the pieces together for real improvement. In Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement, Nancy J. Mooney and Ann T. Mausbach emphasize the importance of coordinating essential school improvement processes to increase staff capacity, improve student achievement, and develop effective schools. The authors show school leaders how to use "power tools" to *Develop effective curriculum *Make the most of their school's data *Create successful school improvement plans *Implement valuable professional development sessions and workshops *Use efficient supervisory techniques *Foster leadership for school improvement Each chapter includes personal reflections from the authors and lists of touchstone texts that have inspired their efforts. At a time when school leaders are trying to translate urgent calls for higher achievement into actions that work, Align the Design provides expert guidance and practical tools that will help educators work more purposefully together to create better schools for their students.

Continuous School Improvement

Author : Mark A. Smylie
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452272220
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Continuous School Improvement written by Mark A. Smylie and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume from the Leadership for Learning series outlines best practices for sustaining improvement and demonstrates how to set goals, develop trust, and build a culture of responsibility.

The Principal as School Manager, 2nd Ed

Author : William L. Sharp
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 081084740X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Principal as School Manager, 2nd Ed written by William L. Sharp and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to teach the principal to become efficient and effective in accomplishing noninstructional roles, this book offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity in the district. Like the previous edition, it provides a practical guide to practice and procedure in these vital areas. This second edition has updated the chapter on law dealing with pertinent issues such as: Internet usage, drug testing, off-campus searches. Other chapters include topics on: the role of the assistant principal, the importance of maintaining safe schools in a climate of violence, the relationship between the principal and the superintendent. Will be appropriate for graduate courses in the principalship, educational administration, educational leadership, and personnel administration.

Change Forces - The Sequel

Author : Michael G. Fullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135711143
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Change Forces - The Sequel written by Michael G. Fullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fullan's first book on this subject was an instant and best-selling success. Now in Change Forces - The Sequel he extends and expands the use of chaos theory as a lens through which to view and comprehend change, and the forces which govern it. Educators have already widely embraced this approach, and taken on board the idea that change is not so straightforward as we might hope. As Fullan worked on his ideas relating them to school systems, higher education and research, the field of change forces was also developing significantly. This volume covers new aspects of this 'science of complexity' and helps educators obtain insights for delving deeper into moral purpose, and expanding into fresh dimensions of changing forces in the environment. The first volume appealed to a wide market from classroom teachers, through school administrators, to student teachers and academics. This volume will appeal to a similar cross-section.

Using Research to Lead School Improvement

Author : Scott C. Bauer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412974054
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Using Research to Lead School Improvement written by Scott C. Bauer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -This text presents a step-by-step approach to problem diagnosis and school improvement. --

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

Author : Joseph F. Murphy
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1506387055
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Professional Standards for Educational Leaders written by Joseph F. Murphy and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpack the standards and build a plan for leading learning Professional Standards for Educational Leaders introduces the foundations of the recently revised professional educational leadership standards and provides an in-depth explanation and application of each one. Written by the primary architect of PSEL, educational leadership expert Joseph F. Murphy, this authoritative guide to understanding and applying the standards explores the new emphasis on: Leadership of learning, school culture, and diversity Values, ethics, and professional norms of educational leadership Teacher quality, instruction, and caring support Written for higher education faculty, professional development providers, and school and district leaders, the author truly brings the standards to life. This comprehensive manual will power the educational leadership profession through the challenges of the next decade and beyond. "Murphy offers an exploration of the kind of leadership that matters most for each and every student. Let us hope the thinking reflected in this book and the new PSEL standards redirects our attention to what it really means to lead in education." Michelle D. Young, UCEA Executive Director, Professor of Leadership University of Virginia "Joseph Murphy debunks myths about standards for educational leaders and skillfully unpacks the moral, foundational, and experiential basis for the revised professional standards to guide effective leadership of our nation’s schools. This book is a must read for those interested in leadership for learning and the academic success and wellbeing of students, because these standards will shape our field for the next quarter century as the ISLLC standards have done since 1996." Martha McCarthy, Presidential Professor Loyola Marymount University

Successful School Improvement

Author : Fullan, Michael
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335095755
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Successful School Improvement written by Fullan, Michael and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the powerful concept of implementation - or what actually happens in practice when innovations or reforms are attempted - by demonstrating its uses in a variety of policy and programme applications.

Beyond School Improvement

Author : Robert Davidovich
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 141297139X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Beyond School Improvement written by Robert Davidovich and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The authors are grounded educational leaders who have lived the approach to improvement and innovation that they write about. Filled with anecdotal examples, reflection exercises, and practical strategies, this is a very useful and timely resource for educators seeking to understand and influence educational innovation and transformation in the 21st century' - Michael H. Dickmann, Professor Cardinal Stritch University 'The authors contrast improvement of existing practices with a more rigorous and creative push for innovation that introduces new and different practices and structures. In many situations, district and school improvement plans have evolved into the technical work of interpreting data about the past and present, studying research, and creating documents. This book stimulates leaders as they stretch their organization's culture to reveal mental models, consider external trends, and seek creative and energizing strategies that will prepare students for a future we cannot yet define' - Edie Holcomb, Consultant, Marzano Research Laboratory Preparing students to be successful in an unpredictable world requires school leaders who can nurture a culture of both improvement and innovation. Beyond School Improvement: The Journey to Innovative Leadership assists leaders in understanding when and how to improve and when and how to innovate. The book helps leaders connect with the new science on change and provides skills, practices, and tools for creating and leading educational systems that will help to prepare students for the world that will be theirs. Based on complexity theory, new science, systems thinking, change, and innovation, the book presents a look at trends that encourage readers to look beyond the comfort zone of accepted practice and consider the merits of improvement and innovation. The authors discuss four change elements--dissonance, identity, information, and order--and define five essential practices for leaders: - Hold courageous conversations - Embrace dissonance - Change the field of vision - Be a gardener and a mechanic - Reframe, reflect, relate Stories, quotes, reflections, and a call to action help to support leaders as they seek balance within themselves, their classrooms, and their organizations.