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Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issues in School Leadership

By: William A. Owings, Leslie S. Kaplan

Featuring the leading figures in educational leadership, this resource from Owings and Kaplan connects best thinking with best practices and emerging issues in school leadership. The contributing authors—including Michael Fullan, Linda Darling-Hammond, Alan November, Robert Marzano, Gerald Tirozzi, and Gene Carter—present leading research and key considerations to assist in making decisions about new programs and new directions for your school.

This book highlights:

Future Trends
Recruiting
High-Stakes Testing
Teacher Quality
Technology
Curriculum and Instruction
Special Education
School Law
Political Environment
Building-level Change
Parent/Community Relationships

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761978633
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2003
Page Count: 580
Publication date: January 29, 2003

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Featuring the leading figures in educational leadership, this new resource from Owings and Kaplan connects best thinking with best practices and emerging issues in school leadership. The contributing authors—including Michael Fullan, Linda Darling-Hammond, Alan November, Robert Marzano, Gerald Tirozzi, and Gene Carter—present leading research and key considerations to assist in making decisions about new programs and new directions for your school.

This book highlights:

Future Trends
Recruiting
High-Stakes Testing
Teacher Quality
Technology
Curriculum and Instruction
Special Education
School Law
Political Environment
Building-level Change
Parent/Community Relationships

Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issues in School Leadership unites the ideas of these leading educators and researchers with the perspectives of practicing principals, reconciling theory and fieldwork with recommendations for best practice—truly applying research-into-practice into one manageable, accessible guide.

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William A. Owings

William A. Owings, Ed.D. is currently a professor of educational leadership at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Owings has worked as a public school teacher, an elementary and high school principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent of schools. His professional interests are in school finance, principal quality, and teacher quality as they relate to school improvement and student achievement. In addition, his scholarly publications co-authored with Leslie Kaplan include articles in National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Bulletin, Journal of School Leadership, Journal of Education Finance, Journal of Effective Schools, Phi Delta Kappan, and the Teachers College Record. Owings has served on the state and international board of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), is currently the editor of the Journal for Effective Schools, and is on the Journal of Education Finance Editorial Advisory Board. He is a frequent presenter at state and national conferences and a consultant on educational leadership, school finance, and instructional improvement. Owings and Kaplan share the 2008 Virginia Educational Research Association Charles Edgar Clear Research Award for Consistent and Substantial Contributions to Educational Research and Scholarship.

http://www.ejbe.org/EJBE2012Vol05No10p45OWINGS-KAPLAN-PIRIM.pdf

http://issuu.com/odujes/docs/journal_for_effective_schools/1?mode=a_p

http://www.effectiveschoolsjournal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=72

http://www.ejbe.org/EJBE-2012-Nov-5-10.htm

Leslie S. Kaplan

Leslie S. Kaplan, Ed.D. is a retired school administrator in Newport News, VA and is currently a full-time education writer. She has provided middle and high school instructional and school improvement leadership as an assistant principal for instruction as well as central office leadership as a director of program development. Before becoming a school administrator, she worked as a middle and high school counselor, and these insights continue to infuse her leadership behaviors. Her professional interests focus on teacher quality, principal quality, and school finance and their relationship to school improvement and increasing student achievement. She has co-authored several books and monographs with William Owings including American Public School Finance (2nd edition); Educational Foundations (2nd edition); Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Education: Theory into Practice; The Effective Schools Movement: History, Analysis, and Application; Teacher Quality, Teaching Quality, and School Improvement; Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issue in School Leadership; and Enhancing Teacher and Teaching Quality. Kaplan’s scholarly publications, co-authored with Owings’, appear in numerous peer-reviewed professional journals. Kaplan is co-editor of the Journal for Effective Schools, and also serves on the NASSP Bulletin Editorial Board. She is a past president of the Virginia Counselors’ Association and the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and presently sits on the board of Voices for Virginia’s Children.

http://www.ejbe.org/EJBE2012Vol05No10p45OWINGS-KAPLAN-PIRIM.pdf

http://issuu.com/odujes/docs/journal_for_effective_schools/1?mode=a_p

http://www.effectiveschoolsjournal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=72

http://www.ejbe.org/EJBE-2012-Nov-5-10.htm

Table of Contents

Prologue

A Brief Look at the ISLLC Standards

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Part I: Understanding Schools and School Leadership

1. Changing Demographics: A Call for Leadership

ISLLC Questions

References

2. Media and Political Misrepresentation of Public Education

ISLLC Questions

References

Lessons Learned

Part II: Leading Change

3. Implementing Change at the Building Level

ISLLC Questions

References

4. Challenges to Leading and Sustaining School Change

ISLLC Questions

5. The New Effective Schools

ISLLC Questions

References

6. Politics and Education: A Conundrum for School Leadership

ISLLC Questions

References

Lessons Learned

Part III: Teaching and Learning

7. Curriculum and Instruction: Critical and Emerging Issues for Educational Leadership

ISLLC Questions

References

8. Enhancing Teaching

ISLLC Questions

References

9. Teacher Quality

ISLLC Questions

References

10. Using Technology to Change School Learning Culture

ISLLC Questions

Reference

11. Integrating Technology Into Instructional Design

ISLLC Questions

Annotated References

12. Professional Development in Instructional Technology: A Case Study

ISSLC Questions

Lessons Learned

Reference

Part IV: Meeting Individual Learners' Needs

13. What Instructional Leaders Need to Know About Special Education

ISLLC Questions

References

14. Making Inclusion Work

ISLLC Questions

References

15. Talent Development With English Language Learners

ISLLC Questions

References

16. Connecting Authentic Knowledge and Academic Accountability Through Personal Learning Plans

ISLLC Questions

References

17. Severely and Profoundly Disabled Students in the School Community

ISLLC Questions

18. Working With Special Education Advocates

ISLLC Questions

19. Technology and Gifted Learners

ISLLC Questions

References

Lessons Learned

Part V: Accountability

20. High-Stakes Testing

ISLLC Questions

21. Are Standards the Answer?

ISLLC Questions

22. Critical Issues in School Law

ISLLC Questions

23. Emerging Issues in Special Education Law

ISLLC Questions

24. Sustaining the Investment: Technology or Teachers?

Lessons Learned

Part VI: Future Trends in Education

25. Changes in Educational Practice

ISLLC Questions

References

26. Changes in the Educational Landscape

ISLLC Questions

Lessons Learned

Epilogue

Index

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