Roundtable Viewpoints: Educational Leadership - Brossura

Munro, Joyce Huth

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ISBN 10: 0073379751 ISBN 13: 9780073379753

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Riassunto

ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP offers varying perspectives on important issues and provides readers with balanced and fair coverage of a topic to form their own opinion or to support their research. This reader is designed to address a number of different issues regarding educational leadership. Each issue question is relevant to the topic and guides readers through the readings. The controversy and different views among the captivating readings is readily apparent to the reader and stimulates discussion. The variety of selections per issue are current, culled from a variety of sources, and relate to the most popular issues surrounding the topic.

In addition to the issue questions and selections, ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP includes an issue introduction; summary/overview; highlights; critical thinking; challenge questions; and additional reading and/or websites.

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Unit 1 Perspectives on Educational Leadership

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Issue 1. What Are the Newest Approaches to Educational Leadership?

1.1. 42499 Embracing Confusion: What Leaders Do When They Don’t Know What to Do, Barry C. Jentz and Jerome T. Murphy, Phi Delta Kappan, January 2005

1.2. 45059 Improving Performance Through Flexible Leadership, Gary Yukl and Richard Lepsinger, Leadership in Action, September/October 2005

1.3. 46228 The Socially Intelligent Leader, Daniel Goldman, Educational Leadership, September 2006

1.4. 45060 Leading Together: Complex Challenges Require a New Approach, Wilfred H. Drath, Leadership in Action, March/April 2003

1.5. 46229 Distributed Leadership, James P. Spillane, The Educational Forum, Winter 2005

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Issue 2. What Planning Strategies Work Best in Educational Organizations?

2.1. 45094 Stop Making Plans: Start Making Decisions, Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steele, Harvard Business Review, January 2006

2.2. 46230 Planning That Matters: Helping Schools Engage in Collaborative, Strategic Problem Solving, Craig Jerald, The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, April 2005

2.3. 45095 The Learning Organization and Strategic Change, Robert W. Rowden, SAM Advanced Management Journal, Summer 2001

2.4. 45096 Futuring: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Strategic Planning, John Vogelsang, Support Center for Nonprofit Management, March/April 2003

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Issue 3. What Is the Right Balance of Central Authority and Site-Based Autonomy?

3.1. 46231 Theory of Action, Jeff Archer, Education Week, September 14, 2005

3.2. 46232 Schools Take a Lesson from Big Business, Del Jones, USA Today, March 9, 2006

3.3. 46233 Educational Leaders as Caring Teachers, Nel Noddings, School Leadership and Management, September 2006

3.4. 46234 Gunslinger School Administrators, Peter K. Eisinger and Richard C. Hula, Urban Education, November 2004

Unit 2 Context of Educational Leadership

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Issue 4. What Performance Assessment Practices Should Educational Leaders Consider Today?

4.1. 46235 When Principals Rate Teachers, Brian Jacobs and Lars Lefgren, Education Next, Spring 2006

4.2. 45092 Assessment Alternatives: Appraising Organizational Performance, Ralph Jacobson, Chief Learning Officer, November 2005

4.3. 45091 Project Teams: How Good Are They? Howard M. Guttman and Andrew Longman, Quality Progress, February 2006

4.4. 46236 It's Time to Rethink Teacher Supervision and Evaluation, Kim Marshall, Phi Delta Kappan, June 2005

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Issue 5. How Can a Systems Approach Help Educational Leaders Manage Change?

5.1. 45087 Suspending the Elephant Over the Table, Nelda Cambron-McCabe and Luvern L. Cunningham, The School Administrator, November 2004

5.2. 46237 Leading Professional Learning, Michael Fullan, The School Administrator, November 2006

5.3. 45134 On Learning and the Systems That Facilitate It, Russell L. Ackoff, Reflections: The SoL Journal, August 1999

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Issue 6. How Do Educational Leaders Shape Organizational Culture?

6.1. 46238 School Culture: “The Hidden Curriculum,” Craig D. Jerald, The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, December 2006

6.2. 46239 Can School Culture Change? Paul Kelleher and Marya R. Levenson, The School Administrator, September 2004

6.3. 45077 The Passive-Aggressive Organization, Gary L. Neilson, Bruce A. Pasternack, and Karen E. Van Nuys, Harvard Business Review, October 2005

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Issue 7. What Do Educational Leaders Need to Understand about Organizational Improvement and School Reform?

7.1. 46242 Reforms That Could Help Narrow the Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein, WestEd, 2006

7.2. 46243 Rethinking and Redesigning Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: What Contemporary Research and Theory Suggests, James W. Pellegrino, National Center on Education and the Economy, November 2006

7.3. 46245 The Ripple Effect, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink, Educational Leadership, May 2006

Unit 3 Challenges of Educational Leaders

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Issue 8. How Can Educational Leaders Sustain Diverse and Socially Just Organizations?

8.1. 46245 Culturally Competent Schools: Guidelines for Secondary School Principals, Mary Beth Klotz, Principal Leadership, March 2006

8.2. 46246 Experts Weigh in about What Makes Diversity Initatives Effective, Judd Sills, The Diversity Factor, Fall 2005

8.3. 45080 Managing Generation Y, Susan P. Eisner, SAM Advanced Management Journal, Autumn 2005

8.4. 46247 The Diversity Test, Edwin C. Darden, American School Board Journal, October 2006

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Issue 9. What Is the Impact of Accountability Legislation on Educational Organizations?

9.1. 46248 NCLB and the Competitiveness Agenda: Happy Collaboration or a Collision Course? Frederick M. Hess and Andrew J. Rotherham, The American Enterprise, January 8, 2007

9.2. 46249 Fixing the NCLB Accountability System, Robert L. Linn, Crain’s Chicago Business, Summer 2005

9.3. 46250 Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the Promise to Our Nation's Children, The Commission on No Child Left Behind, Aspen Institute, February 2007

9.4. 46251 The Next-Generation Models of Education Accountability: The Regulated Market Model, Jacob E. Adams, Jr. and Paul T. Hill, Next-Generation Models of Education Accountability, July 2003

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Issue 10. How Will Educational Organizations Be Led in the Future?

10.1. 46252 Using Trend Data to Create a Successful Future for Our Students, Our Schools, and Our Communities, Gary Marx, ERS Spectrum, Winter 2006

10.2. 46253 What's Next? Marshall S. Smith, Education Week, January 5, 2006

10.3. 46254 Echoing Their Ancestors, Women Lead School Districts in the United States, Margaret Grogan, International Studies in Educational Administration, November 2, 2005

10.4. 46255 Educational Leaders in a Globalising World: A New Set of Priorities? Mike Bottery, School Leadership and Management, February 2006

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Book by Munro Joyce Huth

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0073379751
• ISBN 13: 9780073379753
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 426
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