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Practicing the Art of Leadership : A Problem-Based Approach to Implementing the ISLLC Standards
ISBN: 9780131599734 | 0131599739
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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For Principalship and Educational Leadership/Introduction to Educational Leadership courses. To equip prospective educational leaders to understand ISLLC standards and develop the skills to put them into practice, this problem-based text transforms theory into practice through realistic scenarios patterned on those that appear on national examinations. After presenting the two sets of standards that inform leadership and the organizations that develop them, coverage explores the full spectrum of educational leadership theories and their practic... MORE
| Standards Informing School Leadership | |
| The Emergence of Standards for School Leaders | |
| The Use of Standards and Organizations That Create Them | |
| Unpacking the ISLLC Standards | |
| Other Organizations Using Standards | |
| Transforming Standards into Practice | |
| Establishing a Framework for Leadership | |
| Leadership Traits, Characteristics, and Behaviors | |
| Contingency and Situational Leadership Theories | |
| Power and Authority | |
| Bridging the Past and the Present | |
| Contemporary Approaches to School Leadership | |
| The Scenarios | |
| Developing a Collaborative Culture in Schools | |
| A Definition of Organization | |
| Schools as Organizations | |
| Traditional Theories Influencing Contemporary Practice | |
| Contemporary Postulates Informing Leadership in Schools | |
| Understanding Self | |
| Understanding Others | |
| Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness Through Communication | |
| The Importance of Effective Communication | |
| The Communication Process | |
| The Flow of Communication in Schools | |
| Reducing Barriers to Effective Communication | |
| Decision Making: Quality and Acceptance | |
| Defining Decision Making | |
| Approaches to Decision Making | |
| Autocratic or Participatory Decision Making | |
| Group Decision Techniques | |
| Barriers and Traps That Inhibit Decision Effectiveness | |
| Managing Conflict in Today's Schools | |
| A Definition of Conflict | |
| The Nature of Conflict in Schools | |
| Sources of Conflict in Schools | |
| How Individuals Respond to Conflict | |
| Role Conflict | |
| Conflict Management | |
| Instructional Leadership and Change | |
| Instructional Leadership Defined | |
| The Concept of Instructional Change | |
| Theories and Practices Informing Change | |
| Implementing and Sustaining the Change Initiative | |
| Addressing the Needs of All Students | |
| The Interstate School Leader Licensure Standards and Indicators | |
| Additional Scenarios for Analyses and Reflections | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Reginald Leon Green is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Memphis.
