This handbook is designed to answer two basic questions for educational practitioners. The first is how educators may redesign an entire school system to perform at the highest optimum levels. The second - and no less important - is what exactly educational administrators may do not only to manage, but also to reward the performance that sustains those very improvements. The work should be of interest to the K-12 administrator, the teacher and school board member, the consultant, professors teaching topical courses, or any layperson interested in the issue of school improvement.

This book contributes to the literature on the ethical use of power and political skills to lead whole system change within school districts.

This book contributes to the literature on the ethical use of power and political skills to lead whole system change within school districts.

Readers of this book will be able to provide effective leadership to transform their school systems in ways that improve student, faculty and staff, and whole-system learning.

Readers of this book will be able to provide effective leadership to transform their school systems in ways that improve student, faculty and staff, and whole-system learning.