Focused: Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a School Leader
- ISBN-10
- 1071857134
- ISBN-13
- 9781071857137
- Series
- Focused
- Category
- Educational leadership
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2024
- Publisher
- Corwin Publishers
- Authors
- Yong Zhao, Jim Watterston
Description
"School leaders often are overwhelmed. They feel they need to be responsible for everything happening in the school from curriculum to pedagogy, from teachers to students, from finance to extracurricular activities, from the physical environments to school culture, and from systematic requirements and regulations to community relations. As a result, school leaders are tempted to do everything, which of course is impossible. In this book, we focus on what school leaders should do and how they can prioritize the most important factors for the greatest impact. This book is structured into three parts: Stage 1 (Chapters 1-4): How to Build a Leadership Paradigm for Outstanding Schools; Stage 2 (Chapters 5-6): What Are the Most Influential Elements for Collective Success?; Stage 3 (Chapters 7-8): How to Avoid the Pitfalls That Prevent Success. After reading this book, school leaders should be more empowered to create a school culture where: All staff have clarity on their roles and the role of others. All staff have manageable workloads. Teachers and students feel empowered to work together to develop a culture of agency in which they have the time and space to exercise self-determination, to pursue purpose, and to develop mastery and relationship. Student learning is focused on students' interests, strengths, and a mindset that will help them succeed. Teachers and staff take ownership for improvements in school outcomes. Students understand their roles and responsibilities as learners, are skilled in identifying and solving problems, participate in designing their own learning and are involved in strategy meetings providing suggestions for school improvement"--
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- 2015-08-10
- 183 pages
- Ebook
- Sourcebooks, Inc.
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- 2015-05-30
- 166 pages
- Paperback
- Althea Press
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