Synopses & Reviews
Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. I really appreciated the numerous frameworks for thinking about school reform and the models that clearly differentiated across different school conditions. The author's gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making.-Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational LeadershipCambridge CollegeAddresses real issues of every school leader. The vignettes, cases, and stories provide important insight into what an educational leader at the school level can be faced with each day. These examples lend themselves to great material for a professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role.-Michelle Gayle, PrincipalGriffin Middle School, Tallahassee, FL
Schools face distinct types of challenges requiring distinct types of leadership. This book focuses on four sets of challenges that principals are likely to encounter and helps administrators employ differentiated leadership-recognizing the distinctive nature of the challenges and responding appropriately.
The book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges, making it imperative to adapt leadership approaches. The author also provides an overview of organizational diagnostics and the kinds of data needed to assess the specific types of challenges within a school at a given point in time.
Synopsis
Diagnose your school's critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement
Whether yours is an urban or a rural school, every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of "organizational diagnostics" with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities:
- Preventing school decline
- Turning around a low-performing school
- Sustaining improvements
- Designing a new school
Synopsis
Diagnose your school's critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement
Whether yours is an urban school or a rural school-every setting faces distinct types of challenges requiring an appropriate differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of organizational diagnostics with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities: Preventing school declineTurning around a low-performing schoolSustaining improvementsDesigning a new school
Synopsis
Use organizational diagnostics for applying differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities: preventing school decline, turning around a low-performing school, sustaining improvements, and designing a new school.