The Board-Savvy Superintendent's hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadie's hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district leaders--board members, superintendents, and senior administrators--learn to work together successfully in leading their districts in these extraordinarily challenging times. Filled with detailed, thoroughly tested guidance on how to acquire the skills and knowledge that make up board...

In Paradigm Lost, Spady explores the important changes in culture, instruction, school calendars and school agenda that school leaders must make to prepare students for the next millennium despite the fact that the current system of schooling leads to institutional inertia that counters the very changes we most need to make. Spady's big-picture view refutes the wisdom of adhering to a system of schooling--a paradigm--based on a bureaucratic-age culture, industrial-age delivery system, agricultural-age calendar and feudal-age agenda. Spady then explains how school leaders can overcome this...

This book illuminates many of the core values, beliefs, and principles that can guide, sustain, and inspire leaders during difficult times.

Enrich your leadership practice while balancing the personal aspects in your life that can become neglected when facing too many professional pressures.

Enrich your leadership practice while balancing the personal aspects in your life that can become neglected when facing too many professional pressures.

In this handbook that combines research and reflective exercises, recognized experts discuss transformative leadership, leadership alternatives, improvements in school reform, and challenges in leadership roles.

In this handbook that combines research and reflective exercises, recognized experts discuss transformative leadership, leadership alternatives, improvements in school reform, and challenges in leadership roles.

This insightful first volume in The Soul of Educational Leadership series offers educational leaders key concepts and strategies for framing discussions about equity and the achievement gap.

Join today's most insightful thinkers as they explore the heart, mind, and soul of educational leadership This concise volume offers educational leaders key concepts and strategies for framing discussions about closin

Featuring contributions from top educators, the third volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series examines leadership and moral choices and offers strategies for supporting professional learning communities.