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The Effective School Leader's Guide to Management

By: Jane L. Sigford

Discover how to be successful school leader and manager!

Organized into three sections—management and leadership theories, managing the school, and managing yourself—this book explores 15 vital topics, offering strategies and examples for successful school leadership. It illustrates how school administrators can run a school efficiently, balancing their roles as instructional leaders and effective school managers. This essential guide for all school leaders:

Acts as a handbook containing an overview of individual components of school leadership
Provides suggested resources for more in-depth study
Offers individual reflective practice questions throughout for personal use
Suggests questions to help facilitate professional development group discussions

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412917599
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2005
Page Count: 232
Publication date: October 13, 2005

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Discover how to be a successful school leader and manager!

Exploring 15 vital topics, as well as offering strategies and examples, Jane L. Sigford demonstrates how effective schools are a marriage of management and leadership. Organized into three sections—management and leadership theories, managing the school, and managing yourself—this resource helps administrators understand the complexity of leadership and addresses the application of effective management skills to create successful learning communities.

Written for new and veteran school leaders, this essential guide:

Acts as a handbook, which contains an overview of individual components of school leadership normally scattered among many textbooks and resources
Provides suggested resources for more in-depth study
Offers individual reflective practice questions throughout for personal use
Suggests questions to help facilitate professional development group discussions, especially among peers

The Effective School Leader's Guide to Management illustrates how school administrators can run a school efficiently, balancing their roles as instructional leaders and effective school managers, while still having time to improve professional development, foster parent and community relationships, make data-driven decisions, and nurture personal growth and leadership.

Key features

- practical and easy-to-implement daily ideas

- filled with "best practices" for every aspect of school management

- tools and graphic organizers intended for the busy school administrator

Author(s)

Jane L. Sigford

Jane Sigford is the executive director of curriculum and instruction for a suburban school district. She is also an adjunct professor at Hamline University, where she teaches in the Educational Leadership doctorate program.

Sigford’s doctorate in educational policy and administration was earned at the University of Minnesota. Her strengths and interests lie in shaping education to meet the needs of the 21^st century. In her current district, Sigford’s role is to loosen the traditional paradigms of education so that they can shape their own future. They conduct future searches to see where they want to be in five years and then design their curriculum and assessment accordingly.

In addition, Sigford facilitates large group discussions about complex issues, such as self-examination of middle school programs. Rather than strategic planning, she facilitates self-studies with a future focus.

Corwin Press has published Jane Sigford’s two books, including The Effective School Leader’s Guide to Management (2006) and Who Said School Administration Would be Fun?, Second Edition (2005). The second title is used as a text in several local administrative licensure programs.

Sigford has conducted trainings internationally. Her experience includes being a classroom teacher, special education teacher, high school principal, and district-level curriculum director, in addition to teaching in higher education. She has licensure in teaching students with emotional disorders and learning disabilities.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Part I. Introduction

1. Leadership and Management: Creating a Professional Learning Community

Part II. Topical Issues

2. A Neat Desk Is Not Necessarily the Sign of a Good Administrator

3. People Are Our Business

4. Discipline as a Leadership Tool

5. School as Heart and Soul of a Community

6. “No, Virginia, there is no Magic Bullet Curriculum”

7. Focus on Professional Development

8. What’s Special About Special Education

9. Understanding Cultural Proficiency

10. Making the Most of Meetings

11. Accountability as Opera

Part III. Reflective Skills of a 21st Century Practitioner

12. The Gift of Mistakes

13. Knowing Yourself as a Moral and Ethical Leader

14. Balance Between Work and Play

Conclusion: Putting It All Together

References

Index

Reviews

"Sigford has written a book that would be a good basic administrative resource. It is easy to read and find information. There are handy lists, the information is up-to-date, and the bibliography contains additional resources for further study on the topics presented."

Principal Navigator, January 2007

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