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1. Improving schools : studies in leadership and culture [2008]

  • [Charlotte, N.C.] : Information Age Pub., ©2008.
Description
Book — 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
  • Empirical consequences of school trust / Patrick B. Forsyth
  • Building trust in schools : a review of the empirical evidence / Curt M. Adams
  • Evaluating the culture of high schools in relation to their demographic characteristics and performance / Theodore J. Kowalski and Kathleen Hermann
  • Defining, measuring, and validating teacher and collective responsibility / Laura LoGerfo and Roger Goddard
  • Systems thinking and culture change in urban school districts / Leigh McGuigan
  • Measuring district climate / Michael DiPaola and Kathleen Smith
  • U-turn required : how Virginia's first school turnaround specialists are meeting the challenges of improving low-performing schools / Daniel L. Duke [and others]
  • Encouraging teacher leaders / Marc A.L. Shelton, Virginia Davidhizar Birky, and W. Scot Headley
  • Curriculum and instruction policy in the context of multiple accountabilities / Jason P. Nance and Helen M. Marks
  • African American female superintendents speaking the language of hope : reconstructing the multi-dimensions of passion / Juanita Cleaver Simmons and W. Yvonne Johnson
  • Charter schools, communities, and local newspapers : new questions to examine / Ann Allen and Dwan V. Robinson.
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2. Making the right decisions : a guide for school leaders [2005]

Description
Book — 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages)
Summary
  • Setting the stage for the right decisions
  • Creating a positive school culture
  • Culture, climate, and decision making
  • A model for individual decisions
  • When two (or more) heads are better than one
  • Who are some of these stakeholders?
  • Rationality in decision making
  • The importance of feeling empowered and the power to empower
  • Faculty buy-in : appropriately using teacher leaders
  • Parent participation : gaining support for decisions
  • Decisions and school improvement
  • Decisions and school bureaucracies
  • In summary : we are family.
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