Becoming a Transformative Leader: A Guide to Creating Equitable Schools

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Shields, Carolyn M.

Crafts & Hobbies

Routledge

This exciting book explores the concept of transformative leadership and how leaders can create learning environments that are academically excellent, equitable, inclusive, and socially just. Grounded in research and real examples, Dr. Carolyn Shields presents an approach to leadership that is engaged, authentic, courageous, and effective in addressing the needs of today's diverse student bodies. Featuring examples from schools and leaders, questions for reflection, downloadable eResources, and links to useful websites, Becoming a Transformative Leader is an invaluable and practical guide for school administrators, teacher leaders, and district leaders concerned about the uneven educational playing field for students in our schools.

Becoming a Transformative Leader: A Guide to Creating Equitable Schools (Eye on Education)

Transformative Leadership in Education: Equitable Change in an Uncertain and Complex World

In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of education today, leaders need to take an engaged, activist, and courageous approach to help build optimistic futures for all students. Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative approach to leadership for deep and equitable change. Using vignettes, stories, research, and drawing on scholarship from a range of disciplines, noted scholar Carolyn M. Shields explores the concept of transformative leadership and its potential to create learning environments that are just and inclusive. Drawing on examples from transformative school leaders, Shields demonstrates that this leadership can promote academic achievement, family and community empowerment, democratic engagement, and global citizenship.  Special features include:    End-of-chapter guiding questions to help readers reflect on their own practice and to apply the concepts in their own contexts    Vignettes and stories from students, teachers, and community members illustrate how transformative leadership can promote academic achievement and democratic engagement   A robust companion website with extra resources, video and audio clips, and an author blog to further understanding and lead to sustained action toward the goals of transformative leadership.    This exciting text will appeal to all aspiring and practicing leaders who want to prepare students to be successful, caring, and engaged citizens of the global community.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Eye On Education

In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of education today, leaders need to take an engaged, activist, and courageous approach to help build optimistic futures for all students. Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative approach to leadership for deep and equitable change. Using vignettes, stories, research, and drawing on scholarship from a range of disciplines, noted scholar Carolyn M. Shields explores the concept of transformative leadership and its potential to create learning environments that are just and inclusive. Drawing on examples from transformative school leaders, Shields demonstrates that this leadership can promote academic achievement, family and community empowerment, democratic engagement, and global citizenship. Special features include: <ul>
<li>End-of-chapter guiding questions to help readers reflect on their own practice and to apply the concepts in their own contexts </li> <li>Vignettes and stories from students, teachers, and community members illustrate how transformative leadership can promote academic achievement and democratic engagement</li> <li>A robust companion website with extra resources, video and audio clips, and an author blog to further understanding and lead to sustained action toward the goals of transformative leadership. </li> </ul> This exciting text will appeal to all aspiring and practicing leaders who want to prepare students to be successful, caring, and engaged citizens of the global community.

Design and Technology: Electronics and Control Systems covers the GCSE syllabuses requirements for design and technology (electronics) and design and technology (electronic products). The text is written so that it is easily accessible to all students. There is a range of design and make assignments, focused practical tasks and activities in which students are asked to investigate, disassemble and evaluate familiar products and applications. The book is highly illustrated in full colour throughout and contains a comprehensive index.

Administrators, faculty, and parents have been weighing the pros and cons of year-round schooling for a long time. They cite a variety of reasons for this scheduling change: growing school enrollments, working parents, and shrinking budgets. Hundreds of school districts in the USA and Canada have adopted year-round school schedules and many more are considering the option. This volume provides a comprehensive, research-based explanation of the concept and practice of year-round school scheduling. It reviews a variety of alternative school schedules and contrasts them with the traditional schedules, by showing the effects of year-round schooling on the students, staff, and facilities.

Year-Round Schooling: Promises and Pitfalls

Oberg, Steven Lynn

R&L Education

Good Intentions are not Enough: Transformative Leadership for Communities of Difference

Catch a new vision of leadership that fosters school communities that are socially just and academically excellent with this accessible guide. It combines promising theoretical perspectives with stories about practitioners and schools across the United States, Canada, and in the South Pacific (Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand) to show how, in many varied contexts, leaders are making a difference. Good Intentions Are Not Enough, is designed to raise the awareness of all concerned citizens about how to develop schools with diverse populations. Comprehensive and research-based, this book offers theories and practical ideas helpful to both teachers and administrators.

Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Transformative Leadership for Communities of Difference

This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk develop a theory of dialogic leadership that bridges the gaps between the pioneering philosophical works of such seminal thinkers as Bakhtin, Buber, and Gadamer, as well as the work of educational leaders. Using examples, vignettes, and illustrations, this book develops both a theoretical and a practical approach to educational leadership. Dialogue Is Not Just Talk speaks to leaders striving to develop relationships, improve understanding, overcome conflict, and create an increased sense of community within diverse contexts and pluralistic societies. This book will be useful in academic and practical settings.

Dialogue Is Not Just Talk: A New Ground for Educational Leadership (Counterpoints)

Business & Money

Edwards, Mark M.

Job Hunting & Careers

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

The Bakhtin Primer offers a truly new and innovative approach to leading and reforming schools. It delves into some of Bakhtin’s most salient concepts – chronotope, polyphony and heteroglossia, dialogue and dialogism, and carnival – and presents them as the basis for a comprehensive reform agenda – one that focuses on high levels of student achievement and on socially just and inclusive educational practice. The primer demonstrates the relevance of theory to educational practice and presents it in clear, concise language coupled with numerous illustrative examples to make the ideas accessible to readers. It elaborates the importance of thinking about dialogue, not just as talk, but as an ontological concept that informs how we embrace the diversity inherent in our world. It explores how dialogue and carnival can disrupt the status quo and confront inequitable practices and relationships. It argues that education informed by Bakhtin’s concepts would be more open, more conscious of inquiry, ambiguity, incompleteness, complexity, and relationships than traditional, more rational approaches. It would challenge, and teach students to question authoritative views and traditions and lead them to develop important understandings about our interconnectedness as well as how to interact with and learn from differences across time, place, class, and culture.

Bakhtin Primer (Peter Lang Primer)

Year-Round Schooling: Reviewing What We Know (From Inquiry to Practice)

Phi Delta Kappa Intl Inc

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Becoming a Transformative Leader: A Guide to Creating Equitable Schools

Becoming a Transformative Leader: A Guide to Creating Equitable Schools (Eye on Education)

Transformative Leadership in Education: Equitable Change in an Uncertain and Complex World

Transformative Leadership in Education: Equitable Change in an Uncertain and Complex World

Transformative Leadership in Education: Equitable Change in an Uncertain and Complex World

Year-Round Schooling: Promises and Pitfalls

Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Transformative Leadership for Communities of Difference

Dialogue Is Not Just Talk: A New Ground for Educational Leadership (Counterpoints)

Bakhtin Primer (Peter Lang Primer)

Year-Round Schooling: Reviewing What We Know (From Inquiry to Practice)