Roundtable Viewpoints : Educational Leadership
by Munro, Joyce HuthEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-08-13
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Summary
ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP offers varying perspectives on important issues and provides readers with balanced and fair coverage of a topic to form their own opinion or to support their research. This reader is designed to address a number of different issues regarding educational leadership. Each issue question is relevant to the topic and guides readers through the readings. The controversy and different views among the captivating readings is readily apparent to the reader and stimulates discussion. The variety of selections per issue are current, culled from a variety of sources, and relate to the most popular issues surrounding the topic.In addition to the issue questions and selections, ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP includes an issue introduction; summary/overview; highlights; critical thinking; challenge questions; and additional reading and/or websites.
Table of Contents
| Perspectives on Educational Leadership 700049 | |
| What Are the Newest Approaches to Educational Leadership? | |
| 42499 Embracing Confusion: What Leaders Do When They Don’t Know What to Do | |
| 45059 Improving Performance Through Flexible Leadership | |
| 46228 The Socially Intelligent Leader | |
| 45060 Leading Together: Complex Challenges Require a New Approach | |
| 46229 Distributed Leadership | |
| What Planning Strategies Work Best in Educational Organizations? | |
| 45094 Stop Making Plans: Start Making Decisions | |
| 46230 Planning That Matters: Helping Schools Engage in Collaborative, Strategic Problem Solving | |
| 45095 The Learning Organization and Strategic Change | |
| 45096 Futuring: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Strategic Planning | |
| What Is the Right Balance of Central Authority and Site-Based Autonomy? | |
| 46231 Theory of Action | |
| 46232 Schools Take a Lesson from Big Business | |
| 46233 Educational Leaders as Caring Teachers | |
| 46234 Gunslinger School Administrators | |
| Context of Educational Leadership 700052 | |
| What Performance Assessment Practices Should Educational Leaders Consider Today? | |
| 46235 When Principals Rate Teachers | |
| Education Next , Spring 2006 | |
| 45092 Assessment Alternatives: Appraising Organizational Performance | |
| Chief Learning Officer , November 2005 | |
| 45091 Project Teams: How Good Are They? | |
| Quality Progress , February 2006 | |
| 46236 It''s Time to Rethink Teacher Supervision and Evaluation | |
| Phi Delta Kappan , June 2005 700053 | |
| How Can a Systems Approach Help Educational Leaders Manage Change? | |
| 45087 Suspending the Elephant Over the Table | |
| The School Administrator , November 2004 | |
| 46237 Leading Professional Learning | |
| The School Administrator , November 2006 | |
| 45134 On Learning and the Systems That Facilitate It | |
| Reflections: The SoL Journal , August 1999 700054 | |
| How Do Educational Leaders Shape Organizational Culture? | |
| 46238 School Culture: “The Hidden Curriculum | |
| The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement , December 2006 | |
| 46239 Can School Culture Change? | |
| The School Administrator , September 2004 | |
| 45077 The Passive-Aggressive Organization | |
| Harvard Business Review , October 2005 700055 | |
| What Do Educational Leaders Need to Understand about Organizational Improvement and School Reform? | |
| 46241 Creating the Capacity to Support Innovation | |
| Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform , Reform, 2005 | |
| 46242 Reforms That Could Help Narrow the Achievement Gap | |
| WestEd , 2006 | |
| 46243 Rethinking and Redesigning Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: What Contemporary Research and Theory Suggests | |
| National Center on Education and the Economy , November 2006 | |
| 46245 The Ripple Effect | |
| Educational Leadership , May 2006 | |
| Challenges for Educational Leaders 700058 | |
| How Can Educational Leaders Sustain Diverse and Socially Just Organizations? | |
| 46245 Culturally Competent Schools: Guidelines for Secondary School Principals | |
| Principal Leadership , March 2006 | |
| 46246 Experts Weigh in about What Makes Diversity Initatives Effective | |
| The Diversity Factor , Fall 2005 | |
| 45080 Managing Generation Y | |
| SAM Advanced Management Journal , Autumn 2005 | |
| 46247 The Diversity Test | |
| American School Board Journal , October 2006 700056 | |
| What Is the Impact of Accountability Legislation on Educational Organizations? | |
| 46248 NCLB and the Competitiveness Agenda: Happy Collaboration or a Collision Course? | |
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