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Distributed leadership matters : perspectives, practicalities, and potential
The benefits of distributed leadership are yours with this research-based change process. Distributed leadership-engaging the many rather than the few in school improvement-has long been a promising theory. It's time to make it a reality. This book shows why harnessing educators' collective expertise leads to better student outcomes, and details the collaborative processes to make distributed leadership happen. Insights include: How to translate the research on distributed leadership into tangible results for your school Methods for building the social capital necessary for sustainable institutional change How to distribute leadership widely and wisely through professional collaboration.
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Leading futures : global perspectives on educational leadership
A first-of-its-kind book on educational leadership with a global perspective This book offers multiple perspectives on educational leadership from the viewpoint of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. It considers leadership in context and highlights the importance of cultural influences in shaping and forming leadership practices. It is primarily concerned with 'leading futures' and the challenges faced by leading schools and school systems in an era of fast-paced technological change. It looks at leadership practices across four different levels (system, professional, leader and learner) and explores the connections therein. The book argues that these four levels are often viewed and described independently but in reality they are inherently interconnected and integrally related. In short, this book takes a multilevel, multicultural and multicontextual look at contemporary educational-leadership practice. Through this comparative lens, it presents new ideas, knowledge and insights that would be relevant and ultimately useful to educational leaders around the globe.
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Improving schools in exceptionally challenging circumstances
Working in the challenging context of inner city areas on accelerated school improvement does not allow time for reflection. Learning occurs experientially but it is not easily consolidated or refined. School improvement is currently opportunistic and expedient, but schools and authority are gradually edging towards a more durable theory of tackling underachievement and building success. This book offers the reader the opportunity to understand the process of school improvement better and establishes local models.
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Improving schools through teacher leadership
It is now widely accepted that improving schools invest in teacher leadership and build the capacity for improvement by distributing leadership responsibilities to teachers.In primary, secondary and special schools, teachers are uniquely placed to influence the quality of teaching and learning and they are important gatekeepers to development and.
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Uplifting leadership
In aerodynamics, uplifit is the force that allows airplanes to take off and escape gravity. Among people and in organizations, uplift is the force that raises our performance, our spirits, and our communities, so that we attain higher purposes and reach unexpected levels of achievement. Uplifiting is about the nature of uplift, its impact on performance, and the ways to achieve it, both inside (employees) and outside (customers and community) the organization. The authors identify the principles of uplifting leadership, showing readers: how to identify and articulate an inspiring dream or destination that is coherently connected to the best of what the organization has been before; how to fight for and drive to achieve the realization of that dream with resilience and tenacity; how to take the opposite path to reaching that dream which opponents do not expect by heading into the winds of resistance; how to pursue the dream at a sustainable pace that does not squander resources, incur excessive debt or burn people out; how to navigate direction and monitor progress by using metrics and indicators in a mindful and meaningful way that everyone values and understands; how to build teams that pull people into change rather than pushing them through it; and how to collaborate with competitors from time to time instead of trying to vanquish them altogether. Uplifting builds on the authors' original research of 17 corporations, organizations, and systems in business, sports and public education that dramatically improved their performance against unfavorable and even overwhelming odds. Their research answers: What does it take to do a lot with a little, better than you did, or better than your peers? How do you turn losses into wins, near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, and abject failure into stellar success? The book includes case studies of Marks and Spencer, Shoebuy.com, Dogfish Head Beer, Cricket Australia, Burnley Football Club, The Vancouver Giants, Fiat, and many more.For any leader looking to inspire better results in the people they lead, Uplifiting should be required reading.
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System Recall
The book focuses on what we know about contemporary educational improvement, transformation, and change. It will provide insights into what strategies work, long term, to build the capacity for principled change at the school and system level. Failed strategies and approaches such as standardized testing, government mandates, and aligning to PISA testing are examined for their true worth. The book will consider what leaders can do to secure principled school and system improvement which fully embraces diversity, equity, and equality. It will also dispel myths about reform at scale and challenge prevailing ideas about educational change that, it will be posited, are not helping many young people to reach their potential.
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Subject leadership and school improvement
Curriculum and subject leadership in schools has recently gained substantial attention from both researchers and policy-makers. The Teacher Training Agency (TTA) has reinforced the importance of subject leadership in school improvement, proposing a new measure of such leadership competence through the creation of national subject leader standards (NPQSL). Subject Leadership and School Improvement reflects critically on the work of subject and curriculum leaders especially in schools in England and Wales, that is, those within the policy framework of The National Curriculum and the Teacher Training Agency. The book debates the functions of subject leaders in primary and secondary schools, using current researc.
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