educational leadership

Presents six principles for creating and implementing high-performance schools and provides ways to handle difficult issues, advice on team teaching and learning, and suggestions for continuous improvement and evaluation of methods.

"Complex times call for streamlined solutions--and leaders to pull them together. If initiative overload and fragmentation are keeping your best plans from becoming reality, it's time to lead with coherence"--Back cover.

" ... hands-on guide to the ... book, 'Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts and Systems, ' providing step-by-step protocols to help foster deep coherence for maximum student learning all within a reasonably short time frame"--Amazon.

Offers lessons and examples to improve the leader within and encourage development of each librarian's unique leadership style.

Presents strategies for school leaders for developing effective professional learning communities (PLC) by implementing structures, creating policies and procedures, and developing leadership skills to foster a positive culture, develop accountability, and increase student achievement.

Identifies nine characteristics of outstanding school leaders and explains how principals can develop those characteristics and become more effective community and school leaders.

Explains that schools are unique places that require their own theories and practices and should not copy the features and characteristics of other schools.

Contains a guide for teachers and principals in developing more comprehensive leadership strategies through a series of intense dialogs between a novice and a seasoned veteran.