Modern School Business Administration A Planning Approach (Peabody College Education Leadership...
ISBN: 9780205572144 | 0205572146
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 10/10/2007
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This text in ABLs new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College covers historical and current trends in leadership in a very practical way, using cases and a problem-solving approach as vehicles for examination. The text was developed by a leading scholar in educational leadership as part of a series from one of the leading schools of education in the world. It has a strong basis in current research, and easy-to-use, intuitive features. It strikes an effective balance between the informational and the pedagogical. It covers trends (bot... MORE
| Preface | |
| i | |
| Specification of how this volume aligns with ELCC Standards | |
| Clarification of approach to citations/references via provision of further readings section and end note citations | |
| ii | |
| iii | |
| Contextual Factors Influencing Schools and Educational Leaders | |
| The Evolving Context of Strategic Education Leadership | |
| The evolving natu... MORE | |
| The changing nature of leadership when change itself is the dominant force in the world | |
| Strategic leadership contrasted with historical predecessors | |
| Forces shaping, including those opposing, the new globalism | |
| Consequences for organizations of the new global dynamic | |
| Qualities of Strategic Education Leaders | |
| A discussion of the definition of leadership | |
| Historic insights regarding the origin of leadership, nature or nurture | |
| Characteristics that distinguish a modern, ldquo;strategicrdquo;, leader | |
| Significance of vision | |
| The application of strategic leadership to educational settings though cycles of appraisal, analysis and action | |
| Strategic teacher leadership | |
| Creating a Strategic Organization | |
| Alignments between strategic leadership and a strategic organization | |
| Components of organizations as systems | |
| What is known regarding organizational change | |
| Organizational change imperatives | |
| Knowledge Strategic Leaders Need | |
| Governance | |
| The organization and control of American education | |
| The never-ending layers of statutory and legal authority that impinge on educ | |
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