Fullan The Principal

Three Keys to Maximizing Impact
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-58245-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

The author of Six Secrets of Change describes how and whythe principal's role must change to maximize studentachievement
*** FREE Professional Development Guide Included *** Principals are often called the second most crucial in-schoolinfluencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what shouldthe principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One ofthe best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains whythe answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor inautonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how theprincipal's role should change, demonstrating how it can be done inshort order, at scale.
* Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play intoday's schools
* Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of schoolsuccess
* Filled with "action items" to help implement Fullan's programeffectively
* Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested inschools across the United States and Canada

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fullan, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
About the Author xv
CHAPTER ONE: Outmoded 1
Gasp! 6
Leading Learning 8
Maximizing Impact 9
This Watershed Moment 10
The Chapters That Follow 13
Still Worth a Struggle 14
CHAPTER TWO: Vices and Virtues 17
Panic Time? 21
Four Wrong Choices for Driving Policy 22
Too Broad, Too Narrow: The Transformative Versus Instructional Leader 38
Principal Autonomy and Micromanaging:
Other Roadside Attractions 42
Time to Retune 46
CHAPTER THREE: The First Key--Leading Learning 51
What Key Research Tells Us 56
Professional Capital--a Framework for Leading Learning 67
Foster and Integrate 86
The More Powerful Way 88
CHAPTER FOUR: The Second Key--Being a District and System Player 93
Looking Out to Improve Within 98
Intradistrict Development 100
Beyond the District 107
Not You Alone 115
CHAPTER FIVE: The Third Key--Becoming a Change Agent 119
Change Agency 124
Distorted Mirrors 135
CHAPTER SIX: The Future Is Now 141
The Unplanned Digital Revolution 145
Planned Change: Common Core State Standards 154
Time to Change Careers? Or to Change Gears? 157
A Final Word 160
References 161
Index 169

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is a professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He consults with leaders of education systems worldwide and is the award-winning author of more than thirty books, including Leading in a Culture of Change, The Six Secrets of Change, and Change Leader. To learn more, visit www.michaelfullan.ca.