Introduction -- 1. The current scholarship about educational leadership -- Part I. The importance of system and context -- 2. Strategic Leadership -- 3. Responsible leadership -- 4. Community engaged leadership -- 5. Culturally Responsive Leadership -- Part II. Relational proces…
Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to be …
This book explores opportunities and limitations with regard to transferring knowledge and tools from the corporate world to manage monasteries or other types of religious institutions. To do so, the contributing authors analyze both the ideological and practical implications of…
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and …
Today's complexity, speed, and need for adaptation are putting organizations under stress. Understanding how organizations function and truly come alive has become a critical competency. And yet, organizations still seem to lack a solid understanding of what constitutes meaningf…
by Kollontai, Pauline, Albayrak, Ismail, D'Souza, Mario O., Stern, Julian, Engebretson, Kath, Buchanan, Michael T., Buchanan, Michael T., (ed), Canbolat, Muhsin, Gellel, Adrian-Mario, Lavery, Shane, Yablon, Yaacov, Du Preez, Petro
Leadership in religious schools is a complex and often misunderstood subject. Educational leaders must perform the dual task of encouraging religious identities while relating them to wider issues of citizenship. Religious identity needs to be made relevant to the whole school c…
This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student assessment and professionalised practice. Given the highly politicised nature of assessment, it addresses leaders and aspiring le…
"Accelerated Leadership Development" captures and communicates the lessons learned from successful fast-track leadership programmes in the private and public sector, and provides a model which schools can follow and customize as they plan their own leadership development strateg…
After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey. The principal discovers that the reasons for winning the award are a sham! As her school falls apart, she begins to reflect on the stagnant…
Drawing from the research base that informed the ascd best-selling series of "What Works In Schools" titles, this book identifies key principles at the heart of what it takes to help all students become successful learners. Education research expert Bryan Goodwin separates the s…
This book represents the first cross-country study of the work of board chairs in Europe. It focuses on what board leaders actually do, rather than what they should do, and elaborates on a conceptual contingency framework for understanding chairs' work in Europe. In this second …
1. Introduction: Governing Chains - Support, Control and Intervention for Local Schools -- Part I: The Nordic Countries -- 2. Denmark: Contracts in Danish Educational Governance -- 3. Finland: Changing Operational Environment Changing Finnish Educational Governance,- 4. Iceland:…
These days, Response to Intervention (rti) is everywhere, and there are lots of claims about what rti is and how to do it. At last, here's a book that helps you cut through the quackery and ensure that your approach to rti represents the very best of what is known about assessme…
