This book covers what twelve steps school leaders need to take to make for a high-achieving school environment. It encompasses strong leadership, vision and values, high expectations, embedded professional development, flexibility and resilience, and seven more steps. It concludes with a questionnaire, the High Expectations Environmental Scale (HEES), which you may apply to your organization to determine its level of high expectations.
This book describes leadership best practice and thinking through patterns of feedback offered to leaders by their employees and peers, and through conversations and stories of people keenly aware of the distinctions that more often spell out authentic leadership practice.
Public organizations must innovate and optimize simultaneously—a balance called ambidexterity. A study of 85 Swedish municipal housing corporations finds that shared leadership in top management teams enhances this capacity, especially when combined with performance-oriented control systems.
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To consider the value and process of introverting and Moments of Introverting (MOIs) for leadership practice.
Qualitative, including visual methods.
Moments of Introverting (MOIs) help balance contrasting leadership demands.
The research shows the value of processification to stretch understand...
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Standards-Based Leadership is written specifically for superintendents and is framed within the most recent national standards: Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015. The cases provide an opportunity for superintendents, as well as those in training, to critically reflect on best-practices with real scena...
Today’s school principals are charged with the responsibility of creating learning organizations that emphasize success for all students. Framing decisions in standards that are grounded in research and best practice, this book provides a structure for learning and growth for both current and aspiring principals. Each...
Sandra L. Harris, Julia W. Ballenger, C. Cummings· 0 citations
