What matters most for school leaders : 25 reminders of what is really important /: 25 reminders of what is really important. ([2005])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert D. Ramsey.
• Authors: Ramsey, Robert D
• Contents: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface: Why This Book? Why Now?""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction: Some Things Never Change""; ""Chapter 1 -- What You Do is Special""; ""Chapter 2 -- Primero Los Ninos: Children First""; ""Chapter 3 -- There are No Throwaway Kids""; ""Chapter 4 -- Strong Schools Make a Strong Nation""; ""Chapter 5 -- Schools are Sacred Places of Hope""; ""Chapter 6 -- Teaching is the Greatest Profession""; ""Chapter 7 -- Passion is the Engine That Drives School Leadership""; ""Chapter 8 -- What Matters Most Costs the Least"" ""Chapter 9 -- Schools are Only as Strong as the Community Allows""""Chapter 10 -- When itâ€?s Your Own Kid, it's Different""; ""Chapter 11 -- That Pesky Golden Rule Still Works""; ""Chapter 12 -- Someone Has to be the Grown-up""; ""Chapter 13 -- Good Leaders Learn to “K.I.S.S.â€? and Enjoy the Happiness of Subtraction""; ""Chapter 14 -- You canâ€?t have too Much Integrity""; ""Chapter 15 -- Common Sense is Better than a College Degree: The Grandma Test""; ""Chapter 16 -- Sometimes Kids Need Candy More Than Milk""; ""Chapter 17 -- A Chicken Doesnâ€?t Stop Scratching Just Because Worms are Scarce"" ""Chapter 18 -- The Reverse Side has a Reverse Side""""Chapter 19 -- The Best Leader is a “Servant Leaderâ€?""; ""Chapter 20 -- Your Mother Didnâ€?t Raise You to be a Bureaucrat""; ""Chapter 21 -- Politicians and Armchair Quarterbacks Donâ€?t Get itâ€?So You Have to""; ""Chapter 22 -- If Youâ€?re Not Having Fun, Youâ€?re Doing it Wrong""; ""Chapter 23 -- Things are Never as Bad as You Think They are; and Youâ€?re Braver, Stronger, and Smarter than You Imagine""; ""Chapter 24 -- You Work to Live, Not Live to Work""; ""Chapter 25 -- Itâ€?s Worth it!""; ""A Final Word: The Ouija Board Effect"" ""Resource A: What Others Say about What Matters Most (in School and in Life)""""Resource B: Other Books about What Matters Most""; ""Resource C: Other Lasting Truths That Couldnâ€?t be Squeezed Into This Little Book""; ""Index""
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 371.2/011; School management and organization -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; School administrators -- United States; EDUCATION / Administration / General; EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions; School administrators; School management and organization; School administrators - United States; United States; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483363332; 1483363333; 9781483361161; 1483361160
• Related ISBNs: 9781412904520; 9781412904513
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 10, 2015)
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