"This companion reader to Caring School Leadership is a comprehensive resource of real life examples of caring leadership practice for school leaders' learning and development. To enhance the efficacy of stories as teaching tools the authors provide an overview of key ideas and guidelines for how the stories might be used in professional development"--
Focusing on school improvement, this collection features significant research findings from Karen Seashore Louis, a leading expert in the field. Drawing from twenty-five years of studies, the book showcases a range of research-based results that illuminate effective strategies and insights for enhancing educational practices and outcomes.
This book addresses how to scale-up and sustain effective forms of leadership development over long enough periods of time to realize the positive effects on large numbers of students of improved school leadership.
Leadership is second only to classroom instruction as an influence on student achievement. Strong leadership can potentially unleash latent capacities that already exist in an organization.
A recent study estimates that the number of schools who miss the AYP mark will more than double to 5,000 schools in 2009-2010.
Focusing on school improvement, this collection features significant research findings by Karen Seashore Louis, a leading expert in the field. Over the past twenty-five years, her studies have provided valuable insights into effective educational practices, making this work essential for educators and researchers aiming to enhance school performance and outcomes.
Learn, reflect and grow from 40 true stories of caring school leadership during times of crisis When faced with crises, most leaders handle the moment by leaning into triage and logistics. This book challenges you and your teams to adopt caring people-first strategies instead. Let these 40 stories, from a wide range of schools and crises situations, help you prepare for, perhaps prevent, respond to, and recover from your own school crises. Within these pages, you will find: ? An introduction to what crisis and caring school leadership mean ? Helpful lists to guide caring leadership practices ? A review of current crisis management literature ? Questions, reflection, and prompts to engage with story learnings