Product Description: Effective leadership reflects both art and science. Background, theory, and knowledge is the science. Appropriate and effective application is the art. Conceptual and practical, this concise, easy to understand book is an excellent resource...read more

Product Description: Supporting Inclusion: School Administrators’ Perspectives and Practices provides significant insights that arm the reader with a variety of ideas and easy-to-implement applicable strategies gleaned from knowledgeable contemporaries...read more

Product Description: Bigger Isn't Always Better is designed to provide a practitioner's viewpoint of the challenges and issues facing school administrators – particularly those who work in small districts. Based upon a combination of education theory and practical applications, the book contains many real life exampleswith tips for landing a job as administrator and then making a positive and successful first impression through a deliberate entry plan...read more

Product Description: A succinct, practicable text that equips school leaders with an expansive repertoire of essential skills and reinforces the leadership knowledge necessary for success.   All leaders, particularly school leaders, share five essential skills:   Confidence...read more

Product Description: This insightful guide explores the influence of values, experience, and beliefs on leadership practices and provides examples and reflective questions for exercising authentic, moral leadership.

Product Description: This text presents a thorough and current best practice treatment of Educational Leadership in schools and school districts that addresses the complex use of quantitative and qualitative evidence in the decision making process.  The text covers the full range of introductory issues faced by school leaders today and emphasizes areas that are critical and timely...read more

Product Description: Written for professors of school administration, Preparing School Leaders provides an overview of the three key dimensions of leadership preparation in school administration: the history of how we arrived at where we are, a critical analysis of current state of affairs, and an agenda for improvement...read more

Product Description: Learn the unwritten and unspoken rules of school administration in this second edition, which helps new and sitting administrators increase personal and professional fulfillment.

Loaded with updates, this newly revised second edition gives administrators all the tools they need to create a safe environment for both educators and students.

Be prepared to manage stressful situations before they happen. The second edition of this best-selling resource provides updated content and uncovers effective strategies for dispelling common sensitive situations.

Product Description: A primer of what is truly important for today's school leaders, this survival guide is made up of 25 fundamental insights and baseline beliefs that never change.

Product Description: This book showcases programs and practices which demonstrate exemplary school leadership. Sponsored by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium, the ISLLC Standards offer benchmarks for professional excellence that are tied to licensure and entry year principal programs throughout the nation...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to augment current educational administration preparation programs. It provides information absent from the textbooks most widely used in the preparation of general education administrators. It addresses both the knowledge base and the attitudinal perspective needed by school administrators to serve students with special education needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents what is known about attracting and retaining school administrators, including the factors that influence people's decisions to pursue an administrative career, and concludes that there is no national shortage of qualified people for school administrative positions.

Outlines a basic literacy system that includes analyzing the strengths of current approachs, setting high expectations, and identifying where to adjust current curriculum and instruction.

Product Description: Education is, first and last, a people business. Very little, if anything, can be accomplished in education without working with and through people. Knowledge and training in school administration are extremely important to an administrator...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "This wonderful, witty book tells it like it is. These two experienced administrators tell you what school administration is really all about." --Educational Leadership (ASCD) "The authors are often irreverent, but they also offer tough, sensible advice and insights...read more

Product Description: This introduction to educational administration focuses on educational leadership at the individual school level. It explores the questions of school purpose and how to establish a schoolwide learning community rather than narrow management skills such as budgeting.

Product Description: This book provides a new vision and theory of educational leadership. Robert J Starratt explores the `vision' element of leadership, and examines the policies, programmes and organizational arrangements which often impede this vision...read more

Product Description: Supported by the Nebraska Council of School Administrators and the U.S. Department of Education, the authors investigated the successful strategies and attitudes of hundreds of individuals nominated as outstanding administrators by state departments of education, professional associations, university professors, and peers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Since the publication of the first edition in 1995, The Constructivist Leader has provided educational leaders at all levels with a conceptual framework for leadership defined as reciprocal, purposeful learning in community. Today, learning communities based on constructivist principles are a major part of the school improvement landscape.The Second Edition of this best-selling book enables readers to carry this constructivist vision and purpose forward, while effectively implementing standards-based reform, authentic assessment, and constructivist-based accountability.The new Second Edition features:An expanded theory of Constructivist Leadership based on a thorough examination of the most recent thinking in leadership, learning, and ethical communities. A comprehensive approach to issues of equity, diversity, and multiculturalism.Additional strategies and approaches for the implementation of constructivist leadership practice.Principles and examples to guide new approaches to accountability.New school and district stories of successful implementation of constructivist leadership.A deeper focus on the district's role in influencing policy at state and national levels and in protecting schools and classrooms from the negative impact of unwise policies and mandates.A new framework for the preparation of educational leaders.