Organizational Leadership
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-3912-8 (ISBN)
This book targets both current and aspiring educational leaders. Current leaders could use this book as a reference to refine their educational leadership knowledge and skills. Educational leader preparation programs will find that this book could be assigned as a textbook for aspiring educational leaders as an informative guide so that they can better understand the characteristics and concepts of effective school leadership.
The topics addressed in Organizational Leadership: Knowledge and Skills for K-12 Success will provide the reader with variety of organizational leadership knowledge and skills. Chapter 1, Organizing a Just School in the Age of Accountability presents Rawl’s concept of justice which states that all students have freedom to learn and freedom to learn in a manner that best suits the learning style of the student. The chapter also discusses the roles that each of the domains of knowing plays in the teaching and learning process. Educators must realize that learning involves more than just the cognitive domain and that the attributes of the affective and psychomotor domains must be merged with it. The process for developing a School Improvement Plan (SIP) is discussed in Chapter 2. In this chapter the reader will learn that a SIP is a necessary element which guides the school improvement process. Chapter 3 defines the meaning and purpose of a school vision. The reader will learn in this chapter, how to use data to guide the process of creating a school vision. The fourth chapter of this book addresses the topic of community engagement and focuses on how schools should develop communication plans to effectively communicate with the people in the community it serves. Chapter 5, Inspiring and Leading the Change Process, deals with the change process, school climate and culture, and teacher efficacy. In the sixth chapter, Systems Alignment, the reader will learn about the need to align district and building level policies with state and federal rules and regulations. In chapter 7, School Leadership and the Law: A Field Guide for Instructional Leaders, important topics such as constitutional rights of students and employees, free speech, religion, and special education are discussed.
Frank S. Del Favero Ph.D. is a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and coordinator of its M.Ed. program in Educational Leadership. He has extensive experience at the K-12 level as both a teacher and school administrator.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Organizing a Just School in the Age of Accountability by Robert O. Slater
Chapter 2: The School Improvement Plan by Frank S. Del Favero
Chapter 3: Creating a Meaningful School Vision by Nancy P. Autin
Chapter 4: Community Engagement by Tarrah C. Davis
Chapter 5: Inspiring and Leading the Change Process by Erin Stokes
Chapter 6: Systems Alignment by Amanda S. Mayeaux
Chapter 7: School Leadership and the Law: A Field Guide for Instructional Leaders by Richard Fossey and Nathan Roberts
References
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 221 mm |
Gewicht | 181 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
ISBN-10 | 1-4758-3912-X / 147583912X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4758-3912-8 / 9781475839128 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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