Full Description
Fulfill your leadership potential and succeed as a school leader!
You understand the principles of leadership. You observe the talent of accomplished leaders in your community. You aspire to leadership roles in your school. But how do you master outstanding leadership skills within yourself?
Using proven cooperative learning concepts, Powerful Leadership Development guides you through performance-based activities, exercises, analyses, and simulations designed to improve your leadership skills and hone your understanding of what makes an effective leader. To bridge the theory of leadership and the practice of leading, this valuable book provides concrete parameters to gauge your progress based on:
ISLLC Standards
NASSP Assessment Center program competencies
National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) Domains and Dimensions
A self-inventory of your leadership skills
A peer review process of observing, documenting, scoring, and providing targeted feedback
After completing Powerful Leadership Development, you will carry with you a personal professional growth plan to propel you into your next phase of professional growth. Even more, you will posses the certain confidence, practical knowledge, and recognizable capabilities of a successful leader.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS
Overview
Leadership
Skill Clusters, Performance Indicators, and Aspects
Analyzing a Case Study
Nine-Step Development Process
Leadership Self-Inventory
2. ANALYZING A CASE STUDY
Overview
Artifacts
About the Case Study
Normal School Case Study
Case Study Documentation and Rating Forms
Reflective Practice
3. DEVELOPING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLANS
Overview
Analyze, Reflect, and Document
Standards, Performance Areas, and Aspects
Sample School Improvement Plan for Boosting Student Test Scores
Normal School Improvement Plan
School Improvement Plan Documentation and Rating
Reflective Practive
4. OFFICE DESKWORK
Overview
Your First Day on the Job
Steps for Development
About the Deskwork Activity
Normal School Deskwork
Office Deskwork Performance Documentation and Rating
Reflective Practice
5. MAKING ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Overview
How Do You See Yourself?
Steps for Development
About Oral Presentation
Normal School Board Presentation
Oral Presentation Performance Documentation and Rating
Reflective Practice
6. PROVIDING LEADERSHIP IN GROUPS
Overview
Steps for Development
The Simulation
Group Problem-Solving Performance Documentation and Rating
Reflective Practive
7. CONDUCTING STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS
Overview
Interviewing
Your Two Interviews
8. PLANNING FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Overview
The Proof Is in the Pudding
Example of an Action Plan
Your Own Action Plan
RESOURCES
REFERENCES
INDEX
