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by Ontario Principals' Council
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Steer high-stakes conversations with staff and students toward win-win outcomes with this handy pocket guide to effective communication. Includes scripts, case studies, and checklists.
The Business of School Leadership
A Practical Guide for Managing the Business Dimension of Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The role of school principals and their executive staff has changed rapidly and radically over the last decade. They are now required to be not only leading educators but also effective business persons. The reality is, however, that most school leaders have little if any formal training for these...
by Olawale Alabi
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
You will learn even if you are a novice from the book, step-by-step guide:1. As An Investor, to Pick up any company's chart (The graphical historical price movement) pattern and easily decide if its a good company to invest your hard earned money into2. As a Trader, Use the chart...
by Sheryl G. Feinstein, Robert W. Kiner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Build on your staff’s strengths for optimized leadership
Best-selling author Sheryl G. Feinstein demonstrates how educational leaders can apply a popular business prototype of leadership strengths and the latest brain research to lead effectively. Her new book, co-authored by veteran administrator...
by Ronald Morrish
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
If there is one issue which unites teachers and parents these days, it is the desire to improve discipline in our schools. Everyone wants to see more respect and responsibility from students, less disruption in classrooms, and an end to bullying. For teachers to provide high-quality lessons and meet...
Leading Through Quality Questioning
Creating Capacity, Commitment, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Use quality questioning to bring out the best in your learning community!
Quality questioning is a process for engaging individuals in reflection, critical thinking, and collaboration. The authors demonstrate how questions, not answers, drive school improvement and growth for a learning community....
Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures
A Plea for Experimentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2009
In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence and inquiry, concepts he claims have become methodological “mental prisons”. Paquet describes the prevailing...
The New Geo-Governance
A Baroque Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Over the last few decades, the Westphalian nation-state has lost its hegemonic position in the system of geo-governance. A dispersive revolution has led to the emergence of powerful newly networked business organizations, new subsidiary-focused governments, and increasingly virtual, elective, and...
by Bernardo Zacka
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats—the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield significant discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives.
Strategic Leadership
Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change. Each of these themes is at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to new expectations, market...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Transforming a College
The Story of a Little-Known College's Strategic Climb to National Distinction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Ten years after the publication of Transforming a College, Elon University continues to thrive as a school that reinvented itself and its community around the idea of inspiring and guiding students. George Keller’s now-classic account has been used as an inspiration and playbook for many other institutions.
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Generative Leadership
Shaping New Futures for Today's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
A new concept of leadership for today's educational needs!
Generative leadership is an innovative approach that taps into an organization's collective intelligence. This accessible resource examines the fundamental elements of generative leadership and provides tools to catalyze organizational...
Executive Intelligence
The Leader's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Executive Intelligence zeros in on leadership smarts and notes that in all lists compiled by leadership experts, head hunters, and boards of directors the one and only trait that appears in all is intelligence. Obvious? No, because typically leadership savvy regularly trumps smarts. That is unfortunate...