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Robb, Evan – Corwin, 2022
Skillful leadership is critical as schools return to a new normalcy. Improving students' learning and addressing the challenges many learners experienced due to recent learning interruptions are top priorities for all school leaders. "Aiming High" offers leaders a framework for creating an environment where both effective instruction and…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Responsibility, School Culture, Cooperation
Jonathan Eckert Ed.; Bradley W. Carpenter Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024
In chemistry, a catalyst accelerates change without being depleted. As we seek school improvement, we need sustainable, scalable changes, and therefore catalytic structures are ideal. From communities of practice to professional learning communities to Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) much has been made in the scholarly and consultancy…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Communities of Practice, Leadership Styles
Ende, Fred; Everette, Meghan – ASCD, 2020
In "Forces of Influence," Fred Ende and Meghan Everette contend that schoolwide success starts with relationships--not only between students and adults, but also among all adults up and down the education hierarchy. It's by leveraging these relationships that educators can influence outcomes and effect real change. But how can educators…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Role, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
Brock, Barbara L.; Grady, Marilyn L. – Corwin, 2011
While many books outline the attributes of successful school leaders, few describe how those traits manifest in daily practice. "The Daily Practices of Successful Principals" goes beyond the outward picture of excellence and provides a compendium of daily practices used by successful principals in various settings. Written by former administrators…
Descriptors: Altruism, Humor, Teacher Leadership, Principals
Townsend, Alfred S. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Introduction to Effective Music Teaching: Artistry and Attitude" provides the prospective teacher with front-line tested strategies and approaches that are based on current research and the author's three decades of service as a public school music educator, department chairman, and public school district music administrator. Starting with a…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Public Schools, Music Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Alford, Betty J., Ed.; Perreault, George, Ed.; Zellner, Luana, Ed.; Ballenger, Julia W., Ed. – NCPEA Publications, 2011
This is the 2011 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This Yearbook contains five parts. Part I, Invited Chapters, includes: (1) NCPEA President's Message, 2011 (Gary W. Kinsey); (2) Shadows and Images II (Lloyd Duvall); and (3) Micropolitics in the School: Teacher Leaders' Use of Political Skill…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, College Faculty, Professional Associations, Yearbooks