The superintendent's fieldbook : a guide for leaders of learning /: a guide for leaders of learning. ([2005])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Luvern L. Cunningham, James Harvey, Robert H. Koff.
• Authors: Cambron-McCabe, Nelda H; Cunningham, Luvern L; Harvey, James J; Professor, Koff, Robert H
• Contents: Acknowledgments; About the Authors; I. Orientation; 1. Preface; 2. Introduction: Leading Learning in New Times; 3. The "Commonplaces" of School Leadership; II. Leading Your Schools; 1. Orientation: Leadership Theory for the Theoretically Challenged; 2. Thinking About Your Organization; 3. Encouraging Adaptive Leadership; 4. Creating Your Learning Organization; 5. Reflective Practice; III. Coping With Governance Challenges; 1. Orientation; 2. It's Rough Out There; 3. Working With Your Board; 4. Dealing With Your Unions; 5. General Rules of the Road; 6. Reflective Practice; IV. Understanding Standards and Assessment; 1. Orientation; 2. Where We Are on Standards and Assessment; 3. What the Data Tell You; 4. Questions for Reflective Practice; V. Addressing Race and Class; 1. Orientation: Why Race and Class?; 2. Difficult Conversations; 3. What's Going On Inside Schools; 4. . . . And What's Going On Outside Them; 5. Reflective Practice; VI. Developing Your Principals; 1. Leading Student Learning; 2. The Instructional Leader's Toolkit; 3. Facilitating Change; 4. Questions for Reflective Practice; VII. Collaborating With Your Allies; 1. Orientation: What Is Collaboration?; 2. What Does Collaboration Require?; 3. Collaboration in the Field: Early Care and Education; 4. Questions for Reflective Practice; VIII. Engaging Your Community; 1. Orientation; 2. Public Engagement; 3. Working With Your News and Media Outlets; 4. Communications Planning; 5. Reflective Practice; IX. So What Does All This Mean?; 1. Reconciling Commonplaces and Images; 2. Four Leadership Styles; 3. Questions for Reflective Practice; Appendices; Appendix A: The Forum for the American School Superintendent; Appendix B: Members of the Forum for the American School Superintendent; Appendix C: Contributors; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, Calif : Corwin Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 371.2011; School districts -- United States -- Administration -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; School superintendents -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483361246; 1483361241
• Related ISBNs: 142906105; 1412906113
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.