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- Title: Cultivating Leadership in Schools
- Author : Gordon Donaldson
- Release Date : January 19, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2306 KB
Description
An excellent resource for aspiring and experienced instructional leaders, this popular text reveals a practical model of leadership for teacher leaders, principals, and school teams. It honors the working realities of schools and highlights interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and qualities essential to successful school leadership. This completely updated second edition features:
Greater emphasis on how the roles of formal and informal teacher leaders and principals can complement one another in shaping strong leadership for a school.Integration of current research and thinking to support the book’s relational model of leadership (e.g., relational trust, learning communities, and emotional intelligence).More graphic summaries to assist leadership teams, classes, and individual readers in applying the Three Stream Leadership Model to their own schools and work.More illustrative examples showing the Model at work.
Critical Acclaim for the First Edition of Cultivating Leadership in Schools!
“Donaldson provides an insightful, powerful, three-stream, school-based leadership model for principals and teachers alike. This is an exceptional resource.”
—Choice
“Offers many excellent suggestions for bringing together those in the school community who want to work more effectively to enhance and improve their school.”
—American School Board Journal
“I wish I had had Cultivating Leadership in Schools as my partner during my own turbulent days as a school principal!”
—Roland S. Barth, Founder, Harvard Principals' Center
“Offers practical solutions through a leadership model that more closely reflects a school organization.”
—Gayle Moller, Western Carolina University
“Wonderful, wise, and well-said.”
—Deborah Meier, Founder, Central Park East High School, New York City
“Sets a new standard. . . . A must read for school faculties who want to come together to work more effectively for kids.”
—Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Center for Educational Leadership, Trinity University, San Antonio