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Reframing the Path to School Leadership

A Guide for Teachers and Principals
Third Edition
By: Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal

The third edition of the best-seller features new discussion of morale, current standards and rubrics, alternatives to top-down mandates, and hope, faith, and parental involvement.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781544338613
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2018
  • Page Count: 208
  • Publication date: September 26, 2018

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The indispensable leadership companion—updated and more relevant than ever!

Part leadership manual, part short novel, this unique best-seller uses dialogues between a novice and a master teacher and between a new and a seasoned principal to illuminate how the simple act of viewing a problem through different lenses—political, human resources, structural, or symbolic—can reveal better options and solutions.


Featuring reflective questions and solid strategies for meeting real-life
challenges, the third edition also includes

  • New views on building morale in challenging times
  • A revamped discussion of mandates, standards, and rubrics
  • A celebration of educators as skilled professionals
  • Expanded conversations about hope, faith, and parental involvement

Sometimes all it takes to solve a problem is to reframe it by listening to wise advice from a trusted mentor.


Key features

  • Uses storytelling to illustrate the mental tools necessary for decoding the confusing and messy terrain of everyday life in schools
  • Provides an optimistic view of what can go right in schools, i.e., positive potential for classroom and school leadership—even within the context of today's climate of heightened accountability
  • Covers the challenges faced by new and seasoned teachers and principals in achieving a balance between their personal and professional lives
  • Includes stories that look at schools through four key frames: a political frame, to consider how individuals and groups jockey for power and work with limited resources; a human resource frame, to highlight the importance of individual needs and motives; a structural frame, to examine the importance of clear goals and roles; and a symbolic frame, to explore the importance of culture, meaning, belief, and faith within the school.
  • Provides Leadership Lessons, Reflections, and Applications at the end of each chapter to encourage further thought and action on the lessons within each interwoven story
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Lee G. Bolman

Lee G. Bolman is the Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. An author, teacher, con­sultant, and speaker, he has written numerous books on leadership and organizations with coauthor Terry Deal, including best-sellers Leading With Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit (1995, 2001) and Reframing Organiza­tions: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (1991, 1997), as well as The Path to School Leadership (1993) and Becoming a Teacher Leader (1994). Bolman holds a BA in History and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Yale University. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife, Joan Gallos, and the two youngest of his children, Christopher and Bradley.
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Terrence E. Deal

Terrence E. Deal is the Irving R. Melbo Professor at University of Southern California’s Rossier School. He is an internationally known lecturer and author who has written numerous books on leadership and organizations. In addition to those written with Lee Bolman, he is the coauthor of Corporate Cultures (with Alan Kennedy, 1982) and Shaping School Culture (with Kent Peterson, 1999).
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction


PART I: A PAIR OF ROOKIES


1. A New Teacher’s First Day

2. Getting Off on the Wrong Foot

3. Newcomers Find Wise Friends

Leadership Lessons I: Seeing and Solving Entry Barriers

PART II: THE POLITICAL GA


4. The Old Guard and New Principal

5. The Inclusion Wars: School Politics

Leadership Lessons II: Mapping and Mastering the Political Terrain

PART III: THE HUMAN RESOURCE LENS


6. Sagging Morale

Leadership Lessons III: Build Relationships and Empower Yourself

PART IV: THE STRUCTURAL FRAME


7. Student Discipline: Who’s Really in Charge?

8. Standards and Rubrics

Leadership Lessons IV: Align Structure With the Work

PART V: THE SYMBOLIC FRAME: BELIEVING IS SEEING


9. Changing the Guard

10. Building Confidence and Faith

11. “I’m Just a Great Teacher!”

Leadership Lessons V: Celebrate Values and Culture

PART VI: VALUES, ETHICS, AND SPIRIT


12. Teaching and Leading: Finding a Balance

13. It’s All About Values and Beliefs

Leadership Lessons VI: Problems and Dilemmas

PART VII: THE CYCLE CONTINUES


14. The Essence of Teaching: Leaving a Legacy

15. Loss . . . and Celebration

16. Passing the Torch

Leadership Lessons VII: The Enduring Sequence

References


Further Reading



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