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This book is a story that delineates seven qualities, according to Solomon, that successful, wise leaders possess.

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This book offers clear guidance for facilitating curriculum improvement at the building level. It includes real-life scenarios that principals encounter, accompanied by strategies to help schools sustain focus on student learning and continuous organizational development.

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At a time when America's schools face many of the most difficult challenges ever, the authors of Leading for Democracy: A Case-Based Approach to Principal Preparation return the reader to an agenda for democratic leadership for schools. Emphasizing the need for leadership prep...

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This book covers what twelve steps school leaders need to take to make for a high-achieving school environment.

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This is the best book for aspiring school superintendents to improve their analysis of their potential day-to-day decisions.

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This is the best book for aspiring school superintendents to improve their analysis of their potential day-to-day decisions.

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Leading from the Trenches assists principals in building their own capacity to become true instructional leaders in their school. Filled with advice and insights, it will transform a principal from school manager to instructional leader. Principals will also learn how to focus on being a leader while building the leadership capacity of everyone.

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Leading from the Trenches assists principals in building their own capacity to become true instructional leaders in their school. Filled with advice and insights, it will transform a principal from school manager to instructional leader. Principals will also learn how to focus on being a leader while building the leadership capacity of everyone.

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Everything you need to know on initiating and managing school change are covered: planning change, conditions for successful change, models for improvement, tools and strategies, understanding and using research data, implementing school initiatives, managing resources, getting student results and more.

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This book examines crises facing schools that are covered in the press as well as those that do not receive as much attention but are just as challenging to school leaders.

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This book brings an international perspective of school leadership, but this time, examines how such leadership can have a positive impact on students considered to be unique.

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Standards-based education (SBE) has been the dominant educational reform movement since the early 1980s, reinforced by federal and state accountability systems. This book examines the efforts of educational leaders in implementing SBE to improve student achievement in a variety of demographic contexts but with common challenges.

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Part of the Improving Schools Series Leading teachers are those who are researchers and who have developed their pedagogy based on both evidence and conceptually informed practice.

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This book discusses fundamental campaign principles, but is not a how-to guide. Rather, its emphasis lies on the strategic decisions that a campaign requires and on campaign leadership.

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Leading the Campaign provides an overview of campaigns in higher education. It emphasizes the leadership role of college and university presidents, but also provides important insights on the role of volunteers and fundraising professionals. It provides lessons and examples that are relevant to all types of nonprofit organizations.

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Leading the Campaign provides an overview of campaigns in higher education. It emphasizes the leadership role of college and university presidents, but also provides important insights on the role of volunteers and fundraising professionals. It provides lessons and examples that are relevant to all types of nonprofit organizations.

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Leading the Community College: Pathways Through an Exponentially Digital Age provides information about ten twenty-first century technologies, their probable impact on community colleges, and guidance to community college presidents as to how to successfully deal with the tech...

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Bosher and Hazlewood describe ways to create an appropriate learning environment for students in the 21st century.

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A guide to improving standards, developing leaders and putting pupils at the centre of everything. It explains how making leadership the right - and responsibility - of various stakeholders, taking a few risks and using common sense can improve school attainment and enjoyment.

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Drawing from the writings of John Dewey, this book advocates his notion that democracy is an appropriate ethic to respond to the diverse interests, needs, and values in conflict in educational settings. It provides the foundation for understanding ethical tensions, as well as the methods and applications to reason through them.