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Differentiating School Leadership Daniel L. Duke

Differentiating School Leadership By Daniel L. Duke

Differentiating School Leadership by Daniel L. Duke

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This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges.

Differentiating School Leadership Summary

Differentiating School Leadership: Facing the Challenges of Practice by Daniel L. Duke

Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. The author's gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making.
-Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational Leadership
Cambridge College

The vignettes, cases, and stories provide insights into what an educational leader at the school level can face each day. These examples lend themselves to professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role.
-Michelle Gayle, Principal
Griffin Middle School, Tallahassee, FL

Diagnose your school's critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement!

Whether yours is an urban or a rural school, every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of organizational diagnostics with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities:

  • Preventing school decline
  • Turning around a low-performing school
  • Sustaining improvements
  • Designing a new school

Differentiating School Leadership Reviews

Offers a set of extremely useful heuristics, mental models, and organizational checklists with which future and practicing school leaders can analyze leadership situations and take positive, focused action to improve school conditions. I really appreciated the numerous frameworks for thinking about school reform and the models that clearly differentiated across different school conditions. The author's gift for narration brings the reader into the case studies and allows you to almost be sitting alongside experienced educational leaders as they ponder about and make decisions concerning critical educational issues. This is highly insightful and helpful for the reader just learning about the complexity of educational leadership and a critical gift for their own future decision making. -- Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean of Educational Leadership
Addresses real issues of every school leader. The vignettes, cases, and stories provide important insight into what an educational leader at the school level can be faced with each day. These examples lend themselves to great material for a professional book study with practicing principals as well as those who aspire to take on that role. -- Michelle Gayle, Principal
Superintendents, curriculum specialists, and teacher leaders will find the information useful and the suggestions easily implemented, to say nothing of the thoughts provoked and the comments generated by those who share the reading. -- Stephen Shepperd, Retired Elementary Principal
Duke's divergence from 'cookie-cutter' leadership theory in [this book] is a result of his extensive work as a researcher and consultant in school transformation and turnaround schools. The simplicity of the message and case studies to illustrate interventions needed in high-priority school settings identified in [this book] provide a practical and insightful look into improving schools. -- Glenn Stephen Baete * School Leadership & Management Vol 31-5 *

About Daniel L. Duke

After teaching high school social studies and serving as a secondary school administrator, Daniel L. Duke embarked on a career in higher education. For over three decades he has taught courses on educational leadership, organizational change, and school reform as well as conducted research on various aspects of public schools. After serving on the faculties of Lewis and Clark College and Stanford University, he came to the University of Virginia as chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Duke founded and directed the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design and helped establish the Darden-Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education (PLE), a unique enterprise involving the Curry School of Education and the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He serves as research director for the PLE. A prolific writer, Duke has authored or co-authored 27 books and several hundred scholarly articles, monographs, chapters, and reports. His most recent books include The Challenges of Educational Change (2004), Education Empire: The Evolution of an Excellent Suburban School System (2005), Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds (2007), and The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District (2008). A highly regarded consultant, Duke has worked with over 150 school systems, state agencies, foundations, and governments across the United States and abroad. He has served as president of the University Council for Educational Administration and was chosen as Professor of the Year at the Curry School of Education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction Part I. The Challenge of School Decline 1. Recognizing the Potential for School Decline A School on the Brink Detecting Vulnerabilities The Impact of Inadequate Funding The Impact of a Weak Principal The Impact of a Change in School Culture Meeting the Challenge of School Decline Key Lessons and Next Steps 2. Leadership to Prevent School Decline Leading Schools That Face Demographic Changes The Challenges of Changing Demographics School Leadership in the Face of Demographic Change Key Lessons and Next Steps Part II. The Challenge of School Turnaround 3. Identifying the Characteristics of Low-Performing Schools A School in Need of Turning Around Analyzing the Causes of Low Performance Diagnosing School-Based Causes Meeting the Challenge of School Turnaround Key Lessons and Next Steps 4. Leadership to Turn Around a Low-Performing School Targeting Key Conditions School Turnaround Leadership Key Lessons and Next Steps Part III. The Challenge of Sustaining School Improvement 5. Reversing School Failure Is Only the First Step A Promising Start at Stuart High School Determining the Unfinished Agenda Meeting the Challenge of Sustained Improvement Key Lessons and Next Steps 6. Leadership to Sustain School Improvement Building Capacity for Sustained Success The Challenges of Sustained School Improvement Leadership for the Long Haul Key Lessons and Next Steps Part IV. The Challenge of Creating a New School 7. Leadership for Students Who Need a Different Learning Environment Leading by Design Meeting the Challenge of Creating a New School Key Lessons and Next Steps Part V. Leadership Lessons 8. Why School Leaders Fail Self-Inflicted Problems The Greatest Mistake of All 9. The Implications of Differentiating Leadership Some Practical Consequences Last Word References Index

Additional information

NLS9781412970501
9781412970501
1412970504
Differentiating School Leadership: Facing the Challenges of Practice by Daniel L. Duke
Daniel L. Duke
New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
2010-03-02
160
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