Full Description
Featuring the leading figures in educational leadership, this new resource from Owings and Kaplan connects best thinking with best practices and emerging issues in school leadership. The contributing authors—including Michael Fullan, Linda Darling-Hammond, Alan November, Robert Marzano, Gerald Tirozzi, and Gene Carter—present leading research and key considerations to assist in making decisions about new programs and new directions for your school.
This book highlights:
Future Trends
Recruiting
High-Stakes Testing
Teacher Quality
Technology
Curriculum and Instruction
Special Education
School Law
Political Environment
Building-level Change
Parent/Community Relationships
Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issues in School Leadership unites the ideas of these leading educators and researchers with the perspectives of practicing principals, reconciling theory and fieldwork with recommendations for best practice—truly applying research-into-practice into one manageable, accessible guide.
Contents
Prologue - William A. Owings and Leslie S. Kaplan
A Brief Look at the ISLLC Standards
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Part I: Understanding Schools and School Leadership
1. Changing Demographics: A Call for Leadership - Harold L. Hodgkinson
ISLLC Questions
References
2. Media and Political Misrepresentation of Public Education - Gerald W. Bracey
ISLLC Questions
References
Lessons Learned
Part II: Leading Change
3. Implementing Change at the Building Level - Michael Fullan
ISLLC Questions
References
4. Challenges to Leading and Sustaining School Change - William Patterson
ISLLC Questions
5. The New Effective Schools - Gordon Cawelti
ISLLC Questions
References
6. Politics and Education: A Conundrum for School Leadership - Gerald N. Tirozzi
ISLLC Questions
References
Lessons Learned
Part III: Teaching and Learning
7. Curriculum and Instruction: Critical and Emerging Issues for Educational Leadership - Robert J. Marzano
ISLLC Questions
References
8. Enhancing Teaching - Linda Darling-Hammond
ISLLC Questions
References
9. Teacher Quality - Thomas S. Mawhinny and Laura L. Sagan
ISLLC Questions
References
10. Using Technology to Change School Learning Culture - Alan November
ISLLC Questions
Reference
11. Integrating Technology Into Instructional Design - Frank M. Betts
ISLLC Questions
Annotated References
12. Professional Development in Instructional Technology: A Case Study - Richard W. Shelly
ISSLC Questions
Lessons Learned
Reference
Part IV: Meeting Individual Learners' Needs
13. What Instructional Leaders Need to Know About Special Education - Chriss Walther-Thomas and Michael F. Di Paola
ISLLC Questions
References
14. Making Inclusion Work - Patricia Jordan Rea
ISLLC Questions
References
15. Talent Development With English Language Learners - Nora G. Friedman
ISLLC Questions
References
16. Connecting Authentic Knowledge and Academic Accountability Through Personal Learning Plans - Kelly Clarke/Keefe, Patricia Morgan and Susan Brody Hasazi
ISLLC Questions
References
17. Severely and Profoundly Disabled Students in the School Community - Phyllis Milne
ISLLC Questions
18. Working With Special Education Advocates - Marguerite A. Pittman
ISLLC Questions
19. Technology and Gifted Learners - Sandra L. Berger
ISLLC Questions
References
Lessons Learned
Part V: Accountability
20. High-Stakes Testing - Ronald S. Brandt
ISLLC Questions
21. Are Standards the Answer? - Linda Nathan
ISLLC Questions
22. Critical Issues in School Law - Jennifer A. Sughrue and M. David Alexander
ISLLC Questions
23. Emerging Issues in Special Education Law - Kathleen S. Mehfoud
ISLLC Questions
24. Sustaining the Investment: Technology or Teachers? - Kenneth A. Engebretson
Lessons Learned
Part VI: Future Trends in Education
25. Changes in Educational Practice - Gene R. Carter
ISLLC Questions
References
26. Changes in the Educational Landscape - Paul D. Houston
ISLLC Questions
Lessons Learned
Epilogue - Leslie S. Kaplan and William A. Owings
Index
