The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community
- ISBN-10
- 1934009954
- ISBN-13
- 9781934009956
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-01
- Publisher
- Solution Tree Press
- Authors
- Austin Buffum, Cassandra Erkens
Description
In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator’s role is more important than ever. How do you maintain the right balance of loose and tight leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and more in compelling chapters that deliver the strategies and heartfelt inspiration essential to being the best administrator you can be.
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