Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances write by Philip Smith. This book was released on 2014-01-16. Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
What's Good about Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances?
What's Good about Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What's Good about Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances? write by Alan Flintham. This book was released on 2007. What's Good about Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances
Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances write by Philip B. R. Smith. This book was released on 2012. Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Schools on the Edge
Schools on the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schools on the Edge write by John MacBeath. This book was released on 2006-11-16. Schools on the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ′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.
Leading Schools in Challenging Times
Leading Schools in Challenging Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leading Schools in Challenging Times write by Bruce Anthony Jones. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Leading Schools in Challenging Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past 30 years our public school system has received an unprecedented amount of attention as this concerns methods of school reform and policy strategies for bringing about this reform. During the 1980s the emphasis of school reform was on transparency through school-community partnerships. Business and philanthropy, for example, became involved with issues of schooling that was unheard of prior to this period. The 1980s also gave rise to issues of school finance and student performance that went beyond traditional views that tended to focus on finance “adequacy” to views that focused more on school finance arrangements that would lead to actual “equitable outcomes” in student performance. The 1990s witnessed the emergence of the comprehensive school reform movement whereby curriculum outsourcing occurred at rates that had never occurred before. With this movement, the role of teachers and school leaders in the creation of school curriculum diminished as school districts increasingly purchased vendor-related curriculum packages, which included teacher and leader training modules and methods of curriculum assessment. On the heels of the increasing tendency of school districts to outsource school curriculum to curriculum-vendors came a rise in demands for school accountability and school outcomes. This was particularly evident with the passage of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) (2001). NCLB was also developed within a political context that called for demands in the academic improvement of schools and school districts that housed historically disenfranchised students. These demands were particularly important as the nation experienced and continues to experience dramatic increases in student racial and ethnic diversity. This volume, entitled, Leading Schools in Challenging Times: Eye to the Future, discusses varying types of school leadership in the context of key topics that have been at the center of on-going school reform in the United States. These topics include challenges, opportunities and issues associated with our administrator and teacher leadership pipeline, preparation and development; leadership and school finance reform, leadership and changing student and population demographics; leadership and the role of community; issues of leadership, policy, public accountability and school performance outcomes. The authors also explicate these issues with a view to the future and the status of leadership in our public school system.
