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Author(s): Gwendolyn J. Cooke
ISBN(s): 9781483362281, 1483362280
Edition: 2
File Details: PDF, 1.04 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10:1483360091

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Author: Gwendolyn J. Cooke

“A must read for practitioners of educational leadership and students alike! Offers powerful strategies, recommendations, and resources to successfully lead school reform. The checklists are invaluable tools to bring about the cultural shift needed to focus all stakeholders on teaching and learning.” —Roy F. Davenport, Principal, Alfred E. Beach High School, Savannah, GA Urban principals face unique challenges that deserve unique solutions. How can urban principals meet the challenge of educating students in environments that routinely include poverty, violence, aging infrastructure, lack of funding, cultural differences, and high levels of turnover? This accessible manual offers powerful tools and practical guidance to ensure that urban principals succeed as school leaders. Gwendolyn J. Cooke provides tried-and-true, research-based strategies for initiating, stabilizing, and sustaining effective practices. Each chapter includes reflective thinking activities to help school leaders assess needs, and set and achieve goals. This second edition examines the challenges the current educational environment and links the ISLLC standards to seven keys of leadership: Control: manage the school community by building consensus Caring: create a school climate that invites students to learn, grow, and explore Change: use effective strategies to implement constructive change processes Charisma: cultivate your own charismatic potential Communication: strengthen your ability to communicate in different settings Curriculum: provide instructional leadership by harnessing the power of curriculum Courage: find the courage needed to take risks that will move your school forward Use these proven strategies to increase your leadership capacity and effect real change in your school!

Table of Contents:

  • 1. Control: Managing the School Community
  • Establishing Control
  • Time Management
  • The Virtues of the Routine
  • Choice Not Chance
  • Leadership Standards and Expectations
  • Excellence Theory
  • Excellence in School Leadership
  • Problems of Practice
  • Professional Development Options
  • Control Surveys for School Assessment Use
  • Control Reflective Practice Exercises
  • 2. Caring: Addressing the Affective Domain of Leadership Success
  • Affective Aspects of the Standards-Based School Environment
  • Importance of Affective Focus in School Reform
  • Inviting School Success
  • Personalizing Schools to Meet Students’ Needs
  • Managing by Walking Around
  • Being Up Front and Personal With Faculty and Staff Culture
  • On Becoming a Soulful School
  • Caring Reflective Practice Exercises
  • 3. Change: Leading in a New Direction
  • Responding to Forces of Change
  • Taking Charge of Change
  • Planning for and Bringing About Change
  • Concerns-Based Adoption Model
  • Consensus-Based Adoption Model
  • Overcoming Resistance to Change
  • Study Circles: Fables
  • Change Reflective Practice Exercises
  • 4. Charisma: Leading With Personality
  • It’s a Big Job, and You’re the One Who Can Do It
  • The Principalship in Its Contemporary Context
  • Charisma by Any Other Name
  • Heroic Leadership
  • Charismatic Leaders
  • Following the Leader
  • The Need for Charismatic Leaders
  • Urban Principals’ Academy
  • Charisma Reflective Practice Exercises
  • 5. Communication: Sharing Vision and Commitment for Success
  • The Principal as Communicator
  • Formulating and Promoting a Vision
  • Collegiality Conversations
  • Communicating With Students and Parents
  • Communicating With Partners
  • Six Communication Traps
  • Communication Reflective Practice Exercises
  • 6. Curriculum: The Tool for Instructional Leadership
  • Attaining Student Achievement Through Instructional Leadership
  • Professional and Personal Readiness
  • Professional Associations Target Curriculum Leadership
  • Curriculum Leadership Research
  • Three Overlapping Approaches
  • Subtle Clues
  • The Hidden Curriculum
  • Curriculum Monitoring
  • Curriculum Reflective Practice Exercises
  • 7. Courage: Risk Taking and Responsibility
  • Learning to Take Risks as a School Leader
  • Don’t Be Afraid to Fail
  • Plan, Do, Study, Act
  • Yin Yang: A Perspective for Risk Taking
  • Build Awareness
  • Encouraging Others to Abandon the Known
  • Think Like a Genius
  • Celebrate Excellence
  • Removing Obstacles to Ensure Increased Student Achievement
  • Courage Reflective Practice Exercises
  • Resources: School Leadership Styles Instruments

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