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  • Managing Complex Educational Change

    Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools

    by Keith Pocklington, Michael Wallace ...
    Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change?This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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    by Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink ...
    Series Book 6 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original framework of seven principles for sustainable leadership characterized by Depth of learning and real achievement rather than superficially tested performance; Length of impact over the long haul, beyond ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Servant Leadership

    Leaving a Legacy

    by Rocky Wallace ...
    Servant Leadership: Leaving a Legacy is a heart-warming closure to the "Principal to Principal" series. This fourth book finds John battling cancer that might be terminal, and his conversations with Brad and others he is mentoring provide a unique glimpse into the heart of a true servant leader. John's passion for life and caring for others is contagious, and leaves the reader clinging to the hope ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Restoring Opportunity

    The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education

    by Greg J. Duncan, Richard J. Murnane ...
    In this landmark volume, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing how—in a time of spiraling inequality—strategically targeted interventions and supports can help schools significantly improve the life chances of low-income children.The authors offer a brilliant synthesis of recent research on inequality and its effects on families, children, and schools ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Finding the Time for Instructional Leadership

    Management Strategies for Strengthening the Academic Program

    by John C. Leonard ...
    Finding the Time for Instructional Leadership is centered on the principalship and is designed to offer busy school leaders time management strategies for finding the time to be genuine instructional leaders. Leonard provides a set of tactics-called keys-that will guide readers' reflection on the issue of instructional management. These seven keys offer principals suggestions for overcoming the ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • How to Be a Great Leader in Early Years

    by Jennie Johnson ...
    A go-to guide for early years professionals, this book will help you to enhance your leadership skills.How to Be a Great Leader in Early Years enables you to reflect on your approach to leadership. In doing so it allows you to identify the qualities that make you a good leader and to think about ways to improve. Drawing on insights gained from founding her own award-winning childcare service, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Learning to Improve

    How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better

    by Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Anthony S. Bryk, Paul G. LeMahieu ...
    As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Student Voice and School Governance

    Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults

    by Marc Brasof ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Leadership
    While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood. Students are rarely invited to lead school reform efforts, and when they are, their voice is silenced by the structural arrangements and socio-cultural conditions found in schools. This volume investigates problems with the neoliberal school reform movement, and how youth-adult ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Remembering What's Important

    Priorities of School Leadership

    by Charles A. Bonnici ...
    In Remembering What's Important: Priorities of School Leadership, Charles A. Bonnici addresses several issues facing school leaders through strategies supported by real-life examples and anecdotes. The issues addressed include questions such as:What is the most urgent issue faced by a new school leader?How can this leader address the chaos of being both a teacher trainer and evaluator?What are the ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience

    A socio-cultural and critical guide to action

    by Bruce Johnson, Barry Down, Rosie Le Cornu, Judy Peters, Anna Sullivan, Jane Pearce, Janet Hunter ...
    Series series Teacher Quality and School Development
    In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60 graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of frustration, disillusionment and even outrage as they struggle with the complexity, intensity and immediacy of life in schools. Other stories ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Advocacy Leadership

    Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education

    by Gary L. Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • How to Coach Leadership in a PLC

    by Marc Johnson ...
    Series series Solutions
    Expand your leadership capacity. Through this how-to guide, you’ll investigate why strong leadership is a crucial element of successful PLCs and delve deep into what leadership should involve at the district and site levels. Discover leadership strategies for creating a collaborative culture, learn how to build shared values among educators, and explore tools and techniques for monitoring progress ... Read more

    $18.79 USD