The Expert School Leader: Accelerating Accountability

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Accountable school leaders are the key to school improvement, but while school leadership has been described often in many different ways, accountability has been mentioned only in general terms. In The Expert School Leader, the authors detail a new approach to identifying, analyzing, acquiring, and using specific competencies that are needed for effective and accountable school leadership. The investigations reported in this book identify ways in which leaders can improve their performance and, thus, help to meet the challenge of maintaining safety and rule enforcement.

Topics include:
Integrating school rules with the law
Helping teachers act from a position of authority when violence erupts
Interpreting student achievement test scores in order to help faculty improve instruction
Enabling school principals to meet the challenge of managing conflict effectively and amicably

Reviews

This unique book uses a creative approach to formulate recommendations regarding competencies school leaders need in an era of accountability. Particularly innovative is the use of interviews with exemplars from other fields that represent various aspects of a school leader's role...Not only do the authors present pertinent recommendations for specific competencies school leaders should acquire, but also they confirm the relevance and feasibility of their recommendations with school practitioners...Finally, the authors skillfully portray that you cannot be an effective school leader without accountability and that there cannot be accountability without evaluation. -- Martha McCarthy, Chancellor's Professor, Indiana University
The Glasmans provide us with a delightful set of lenses to understand the complexity of the work of school leadersand a vivid portrait of the competencies needed to assume the mantle of leadership..... -- Joseph Murphy, professor of education, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at the Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, and p
These days it would be easy to believe that school accountability concerns nothing more than student test scores. This wonderful book explains what accountability really means in teaching and other professions, describing vividly the ways in which professionals act on their commitments to support the well-being of their clients and society. Teachers, school leaders, policy makers, and concerned citizens should all read this book and think about what we really need and want our schools to do ... and how we can support educational accountability that, first and foremost, helps children learn. -- Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommon Professor, School of Education, Stanford University
I found the book's approach to be thought provoking and a good basis for reform of our professional development for teachers and administrators. * School Administrator *
Lynette and Naftely Glasman detail a new approach to identifying, analyzing, acquiring and using specific competencies that are needed for effective and accountable school leadership. * Districtadministration.Com *
The authors, Naftaly & Lynne Glasman, have written the book that we've all been waiting for. It treats, head on, the critical issue of school accountability: who's responsible in education for whom, where, and to what ends, both personal and public. We are all the wiser and stronger from this analysis. We see, as we're told, that accountability is affected by both substance and image, based on major competencies. We are all better offyes, strongerfor having experienced this amazing book. Being wiser and more accountable can only benefit our schools, their staff, and most importantly, our children. -- Bruce S. Cooper, PhD, emeritus professor and vice chair, Division of Administration, Policy and Urban Education, Fordham University

The Glasmans provide us with a delightful set of lenses to understand the complexity of the work of school leadersand
a vivid portrait of the competencies needed to assume the mantle of leadership.

-- Joseph Murphy, professor of education, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at the Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, and p
An interesting perspective on one of the more critical topics facing today's school leaders. Recommended. * Choice Reviews *

Author Bio

Naftaly S. Glasman has served on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara for almost forty years. He has published extensively in the areas of educational leadership, politics, and evaluation. During the 1980s, he served as the dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lynette D. Glasman has taught at various institutions of higher education and served as an evaluation consultant and researcher. She has published in the areas of cognitive development, bilingual education, and evaluation.