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ISBN-10: 0205578586
ISBN-13: 9780205578580
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2009
Format: Cloth; 400 pp
Published: 02/12/2008
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The Principalship focuses on how school leaders can create outstanding schools using reflective practice and moral authority.
This book continues to emphasize school culture, standards, building community, and providing a moral basis for leadership as a means of navigating through contextual issues and constraints that principals routinely face. This edition aims to inform future principals about the decisions they will make about their practice and how those decisions will affect students and teachers. Extensively updated with new emphasis given to diversity as a part of community building, school character as an important ingredient in school effectiveness, new definitions of school effectiveness, and a new view of the process of change. The book's trademark emphasis on reflective practice is maintained and opportunities for reflection are provided throughout the book. The link between organizational character and school effectiveness is explored and emphasis is given to how organizational character can be established and maintained.
- This book continues to emphasize dimensions of current practice that school leaders face such as developing school cultures, the school as a community, the moral dimensions of leadership, and non-linear decision-making in real practice.
- The book places a strong emphasis on the coverage of diversity and how it is compatible with building community in response to current reality.
- Brings together social capital, relational trust, and community as a powerful force for change ( Ch. 10 and 16).
- Instruments, surveys, and case studies are provided throughout the book.
- Analyzes Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution with recommendations for reform. This landmark study of high schools is a key component in the discussion of school reform (Ch. 1).
- Discusses the following important topics:
- Standards and assessments in preparing and certifying principals, including a listing of Interstate School Leadership Licensure Consortium for School Leaders Standards used to accredit principal preparation programs and a listing of standards for the preparation of parochial school principals. The author provides a framework for assessment based on local culture (Ch. 2 and Appendices).
- The concept of lifeworld of schools — how a school's local values, traditions, meanings, and purposes form a school's character and how that character contributes to effectiveness (Ch. 11).
- How educational expertise and professional development is critical to student achievement ( Ch. 13).
- Practical strategies are provided for being an effective instructional leader. Among them are clinical supervision, the lesson study, peer supervision, and in-class coaching ( Ch. 14).
- The relationship between a teacher's sense of efficacy on motivation and student learning illustrates how principals' actions to empower teachers can lead to student achievement ( Ch. 15).
- The importance of instructional leadership is expanded by emphasizing the principal's role in helping to plan, provide, and supervise teaching and learning (Ch. 12 and 13).
- Case studies of effective schools have been included to involve students in decision-making about the topics discussed.
- The building of communities of practice (Ch.5) and shared leadership (Ch.8) throughout the school is offered as a way to move beyond collegiality to the development of a shared practice that is more effective for student achievement.
- Helping teachers become smarter at what they do remains an important theme of this book. New to this edition is an emphasis on the development of smart schools where individual intelligences are aggregated. Smart schools lead to smart students.
- A "Some Reflections" section is added to nearly all of the book's chapters as a way to involve the reader in reflection, to provide groups of readers with a shared experience that will enrich classroom discussions.
- A new Instructor's Manual with test questions is available to adopters online by contacting your local representative.
Preface
About the Author
Part I The Moral Dimension
Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: Administering as a Moral Craft
The Heart, Head, and Hand of Leadership
The Moral Imperative
Normative Rationality
Strengthening the Heartbeat
The Eight Competencies
Followership is the Goal
The Challenge of Leadership
The Lifeworld of Schooling
Building the Character of Your School
A Commitment to Democratic Values
Time, Feeling, Focus
Servant Leadership
Some Reflections
References
Part II Toward a New Theory
Chapter 2 The Principal's Job Today and Tomorrow
Ideal Conceptions of the Principalship
Thick Visions: A Values Approach
Breaking Ranks
A Standards-Based Approach
Parochial Schools
The Complex Nature of Managerial Work
No Child Left Behind
Demands, Constraints, and Choices
The Changing Role
Principals' Priorities: Comparing Perceptions
A Look Ahead
Chapter 3 The Limits of Traditional Management Theory
Mindscapes of Practice
Reflective Practice: The Paradigm of the Scruffies
Changing Mindscapes
The Limits of Traditional Management Theory
Some Reflections
References
Chapter 4 A New Theory for the Principalship
Toward a New Theory
Controlling Events or Probabilities?
The New Theory and School Organization
Some Reflections
References
Chapter 5 The School as a Moral Community
The Story of Community
Social Covenants
A Theory of Community
The Importance of Relationships
The Pattern Variables
Finding the Right Balance
Bonding and Bridging
Why is Community Important?
Pathways to Student Learning
Some Reflections
References
Part III Providing Leadership
Chapter 6 The Forces of Leadership and the Culture of Schools
The Forces of Leadership
The Dynamic Aspects of School Culture
Some Reflections
References
Appendix 6.1 Frances Hedges and Orchard Park Elementary School
Appendix 6.2 A Primer on School Culture
Chapter 7 The Stages of Leadership: A Developmental View
The Sources of Authority for Leadership
The Stages of Leadership
Why Leadership by Binding and Bonding Works
Leadership Styles Count Too
Craftsmen Leaders are Critical
The Archetypes in Review
Idea-Based Leadership
Some Reflections
References
Chapter 8 Becoming a Community of Leaders
Practical Issues
Leadership as a Practice
New Leadership Values for the Principalship
Distributed Leadership
Reciprocity is Key
Constructivist Leadership
A Community of Leaders
Some Reflections
References
Part IV Instructional Leadership
Chapter 9 Characteristics of Successful Schools
Characteristics of Successful Schools
Academic Press and Community Together
The Importance of Character
Reflective Practice
Some Reflections
References
Chapter 10 Becoming a Community of Mind
The Importance of Goals
Using Educational Platforms
Purposing is the Linchpin
The Principles of Learning
Leading with Ideas
Both Discipline and Discretion Are Key
Providing the Necessary Leadership
Some Reflections
References
Appendix 10.1 Assumptions About Learning and Knowledge
Chapter 11 Teaching, Learning, and Community
Comparing the Theories
Implications for Supervision
Research on "Effective Teaching"
Teaching and Basic Skills Score Gains
Chapter 12 Instructional Leadership, Supervision, and Teacher Development
Training Models
Renewal Models
Teacher Development and Types of Teacher Competence
The Nature of Professional Expertise
Reflecting on Supervision
Supervision and Evaluation
Linking Teacher Development to School Effectiveness
Helping Teachers Achieve Goals
Some Reflections
References
Chapter 13 Clinical Supervision, Coaching, Peer Inquiry, and Other Supervisory Practices
Clinical Supervision as an Example
A Shortcut Strategy for Clinical Supervision
The Lesson Study
Peer Supervision
Looking at Student Work
Coaching
Coaches as Roving Leaders
An Evolving Job
References
Part V Motivation, Commitment, and Change
Chapter 14 Motivation, Commitment, and the Teacher's Workplace
Problems and Contradictions in Policy and Practice
Using Motivation Theory and Research to Inform Practice
Women as a Special Case
Motivation, Efficacy, and Student Performance
The Power of Beliefs
Some Reflections
References
Appendix 14.1 Studying the Climate of Your School
Appendix 14.2 Quality of Work Life in Teaching Scoring Form
Chapter 15 The Change Process
More than Adoption, More than Implementation
A Systems View of Change
Overcoming Resistance to Change
A Theory of School Improvement
Sustaining Improvement
Leading Improvement and Sustaining Learning
Some Ethical Questions
The Change Facilitating Team
The Meaning of Educational Change
Moral Purpose is Key
References
Appendix 15.1 Change Facilitator Styles Inventory
Index
Principalship, The: A Reflective Practice Perspective, 5/E
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Brief Description
The Principalship focuses on how school leaders can create outstanding schools using reflective practice and moral authority.
This book continues to emphasize school culture, standards, building community, and providing a moral basis for leadership as a means of navigating through contextual issues and constraints that principals routinely face. This edition aims to inform future principals about the decisions they will make about their practice and how those decisions will affect students and teachers. Extensively updated with new emphasis given to diversity as a part of community building, school character as an important ingredient in school effectiveness, new definitions of school effectiveness, and a new view of the process of change. The book's trademark emphasis on reflective practice is maintained and opportunities for reflection are provided throughout the book. The link between organizational character and school effectiveness is explored and emphasis is given to how organizational character can be established and maintained.
Here’s what a colleague says about this book…
“One of the best, if not the best, texts ever written for aspiring school administrators. The gentle blend of theory and practicality make it a must read for aspiring school administrators. I enjoyed teaching from this text more than any other.”
—Philip V. Bender, Indiana State University
The Principalship: A Reflective Practice Perspective, Sixth Edition
Thomas J. Sergiovanni (0-205-57858-6)
The Principalship: A Reflective Practice Perspective focuses on how school leaders can create outstanding schools using reflective practice and moral authority.
New to This Edition
- Expanded coverage of instructional leadership emphasizes the principal’s role in helping to plan, provide, and supervise teaching and learning (Chapters 12 and 13).
- Case studies describing effective schools encourage students to engage in decision-making about the topics discussed.
- Discussions about the building of communities of practice (Chapter 5) and shared leadership (Chapter 8) describe these as a way to move beyond collegiality to the development of a shared practice that is more effective for student achievement.
- Helping teachers become smarter at what they do, a theme of past editions, continues as a theme of this edition with an all new emphasis on the development of smart schools where individual intelligences are aggregated. Smart schools lead to smart students.
- “Some Reflections” features have been added to most chapters as a way to involve the reader in reflection and to provide groups of readers with a shared experience that will enrich classroom discussions.
- A new online Instructor’s Manual with test questions is available to adopters of this text by contacting your local representative.
Here’s what a colleague says about this book…
“One of the best, if not the best, texts ever written for aspiring school administrators. The gentle blend of theory and practicality make it a must read for aspiring school administrators. I enjoyed teaching from this text more than any other.”
–Philip V. Bender, Indiana State University
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