Leading Schools In Challenging Circumstances

Author : Philip Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441156828
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances written by Philip Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leadership of schools can make a significant difference to enhancing the life chances of students in schools and enabling them to succeed. This book examines leadership within schools, focusing on securing success within a challenging social and political environment. It explores the approaches to leadership adopted by four successful secondary school headteachers in a local authority situated in an area of high social deprivation and identifies the impact the headteachers of these schools have on staff, students and community. It analyses the key leadership strategies of these successful school leaders, strategies that can be deployed in all schools, and explores the links between leadership theories and leadership actions. The book goes on to examine how these strategies were actually implemented in a failing school in challenging circumstances and shows how other schools might benefit from such strategies and the insights on which they are based.

Author : John MacBeath
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847878881
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schools on the Edge written by John MacBeath and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′An ideal text for challenging the thinking of those studying for NPQH... The conclusion by the authors suggests nine major points to consider if improvement for schools in extremely challenging circumstances is to happen and be sustained. These ′nine lesson for policy makers′ are very frank and pertinent points, let′s hope at least some of our policy makers read them!′ - ESCalate ′Rarely does a book on education reform capture both the big and the small picture with such brilliant clarity. MacBeath and his colleagues furnish a ′no holds barred′ account of the ins and outs of understanding and assessing the impact of schools struggling for success. A fascinating read′ - Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto Schools serving young people on the margins of society face a major challenge in trying to create an environment where students can succeed. The book examines key issues in the field of school improvement. More specifically, it draws on evidence from the SFECC (Schools Facing Exceptionally Challenging Circumstances) project to explore: o the policy context of schools on the edge o the nature of extreme challenges o the way schools have responded to extreme challenge o what seems to be effective in helping such schools to meet the challenge o obstacles to success and the facilities and resources that can make a difference o strategies to meet the needs of the local community and facilitate lasting change. Each of the authors has wide experience of school effectiveness and improvement, and of working with schools in disadvantaged communities in Britain, the USA and many other parts of the world. School leaders, local authorities, practitioners and all those involved in any aspect of school leadership and school improvement will find this book highly pertinent.

Author : Alma Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441139893
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Schools in Exceptionally Challenging Circumstances written by Alma Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working in the challenging context of inner city areas on accelerated school improvement does not allow time for reflection. Learning occurs experientially but it is not easily consolidated or refined. School improvement is currently opportunistic and expedient, but schools and authority are gradually edging towards a more durable theory of tackling underachievement and building success. This book offers the reader the opportunity to understand the process of school improvement better and establishes local models.

Author : Matthew J. Pepper
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1607093456
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Schools During Crisis written by Matthew J. Pepper and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Day
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335231365
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Schools in Times of Change written by Christopher Day and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2000-05-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership of schools in changing times is fraught with opportunities and challenges. Leaders are expected to manage competing interests, to create conditions which form the foundation for lifelong learning, to sustain the motivation and morale of staff and to raise achievement levels of all students. Yet to date, there are few texts which examine how this is done successfully. This book seeks to meet this need. It considers effective leadership and management of schools from the perspectives of headteachers, teachers, students, ancillaries, governors and parents in a variety of reputationally good schools of different phases, locations and size. Through a mixture of participants' accounts and analysis of leadership theory, this highly readable book reveals a number of characteristics of headteachers who are both effective and successful: the centrality of personal values, people-centred leadership and the ability to manage tensions and dilemmas. The authors propose a post-transformational theory that reflects the complexity of leadership behaviour in the twenty-first century, suggesting that reliance upon rational, managerialist theory as the basis for training is inappropriate for the values-led contingency model that represents successful school leadership.

Author : Alma Harris
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826474957
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Schools in Exceptionally Challenging Circumstances written by Alma Harris and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses ways to have effective improvement programs in schools located in disadvantaged communities, and includes case studies of schools with successful improvement programs.

Author : Kenneth Leithwood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470767170
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading School Turnaround written by Kenneth Leithwood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEADING SCHOOL TURNAROUND Leading School Turnaround offers new perspectives and concrete, evidence-based guidelines for the educational leaders and administrators faced with the challenge of turning our low-performing schools around. Using the tools outlined in this groundbreaking book, school leaders can guide their schools to higher levels of achievement and sustained academic success. Based on research conducted in the United States, Canada, and England, Leading School Turnaround addresses in three parts the dynamic context of the turnaround environment, what turnaround leaders do, and the incredible challenges of moving from turnaround to "stay around." Filled with illustrative examples, the book outlines the best practices and behaviors successful turnaround leaders exercise. The authors include detailed information for applying the four main categories of turnaround leadership: direction setting, developing people, redesigning the school, and managing the instructional program. This important resource can help any school leader get their school back on the track to academic success.

Author : Linda Kaser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134022581
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership Mindsets written by Linda Kaser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence is clear - school leaders make a difference to the learning of the pupils they serve. And yet, not all leaders have the same degree of impact. What are the factors that make the difference to student learning? Why are some leaders able to raise student achievement in schools in the most challenging circumstances whilst other leaders struggle to simply maintain the status quo? Drawing from international case study research over many years, from the experience of hundreds of school leaders serving widely diverse communities, Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser argue that there are six distinct mindsets that characterize the way successful, learning-oriented leaders operate and make sense of their professional world. These leaders are: motivated by intense moral purpose knowledgeable about current models of learning consistently inquiry-oriented able to build trusting relationships evidence-informed able to move to wise action. This book outlines an alternative way of thinking about school leadership. It examines research evidence that leaders will find most useful and suggests how they might use this evidence to maximise their learning and the learning of their students. Leadership Mindsets has been written specifically for aspiring to newly-appointed school leaders who are determined and motivated to create quality and equality for learners in the schools they serve, through networks of inquiry, learning and support.

Author : Alan Flintham
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443824542
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reservoirs of Hope written by Alan Flintham and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about hope, and how it is sustained by the personal spirituality of school leaders. Defining this not only in religious terms but using a concept of ‘secular spirituality,’ it shows that leadership actions must rest on the foundation of a personal value system, demonstrated as ‘a lived faith in action.’ Drawing on interviews with 150 headteachers and capturing their authentic voices, it uses the metaphor of ‘reservoirs of hope’ to promote practitioner reflection on the value systems, leadership styles and sustainability strategies of headteachers, as they act as the external reservoir of hope for their schools whilst ensuring that their own internal reservoir of hope never runs dry. It also offers a theological reflection on the spiritual and moral leadership of headteachers, providing a connecting bridge between educational leadership and theology.

Author : Christopher Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135009139
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Schools Successfully written by Christopher Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Schools Successfully: Stories from the field considers international research focussing on leadership in schools. Based on the ISSPP (International Successful School Principalship Project) which has conducted over one hundred multiple perspective case studies of successful school principals from more than a dozen countries, the book captures the exhilaration of being a principal who grows and sustains success from those practitioners who are acknowledged as exhibiting outstanding leadership. Whilst much is known about successful school leaders, the book reinforces the argument that it is neither possible, nor appropriate, to generalise specific strategies that should be adopted to ensure success for all schools at all times in all settings. Instead, success calls for a high level of judgement, wisdom, artistry and sheer hard work on the part of principals, adapting for their particular context the knowledge about leading schools successfully. Reflection sections in each chapter ask the reader to consider further issues which each chapter raises. Topics considered include: - the importance of school principals to school success - turning around under-performing schools - values-led leadership -sustaining successful leadership - leading in multi-cultural settings - issues and implications for the future. With international contributions from experts in the field, the book offers a new perspective on leadership in schools and will be of interest to school principals and researchers.