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The Moral Imperative of School Leadership Michael Fullan

The Moral Imperative of School Leadership By Michael Fullan

The Moral Imperative of School Leadership by Michael Fullan

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`The Moral Imperative of School Leadership is sequel to what many heads consider Michael Fullan's best and most practical book, Leading in a Culture of Change' - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement

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The Moral Imperative of School Leadership by Michael Fullan

Fullan shows how moral leadership can reinvent the principalship and bring about large-scale school improvement. This is a masterfully crafted and accessible book by North America's foremost expert on change.
-Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor of Education
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Fullan challenges all who work in education to rethink the critical role of the principal as school leader in the current era of accountability. With clarity and insight, he offers a series of strategies to reshape the culture and context of leadership in schools to create learning communities where both students and teachers can excel.
-Paul D. Houston, Executive Director
American Association of School Administrators

Once again, the writing of Michael Fullan is a tour de force. The Moral Imperative of School Leadership is a must-read for those who want to make a difference!
-Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director
National Association of Secondary School Principals

The time has come to change the context of school leadership!

The role of the principal is pivotal to systemic school change. That is the fundamental message of The Moral Imperative of School Leadership, which extends the discussion begun in Fullan's earlier publication, What's Worth Fighting for in the Principalship? The author examines the moral purpose of school leadership and its critical role in changing the context in which the role is embedded. In this bold step forward, Fullan calls for principals to become agents as well as beneficiaries of the processes of school change. In an effort to make the position more rewarding and exciting, he shifts the principal's role from one of a site-based superman or superwoman, and recasts it as one in which principals figure prominently both within their school and within the larger school system that surrounds them.

Concepts explored in-depth include:

  • Why changing the context should be the main agenda for the principalship
  • Why barriers to the principalship exist
  • Why the principal should be seen as the COO (chief operating officer) of a school
  • Why the role of the principal should figure more prominently within the system
  • What individuals and the system can do to transform school leadership to a powerful new force

The challenge, and moral imperative, for today's principal is to lead system transformations to resolve the top-down/bottom-up dilemma that exists in systemic change. To end the exodus from the principalship, and for great school leaders to evolve in large numbers, the time to redefine the position is now!

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Fullan challenges all who work in education to rethink the critical role of the principal as school leader in the current era of accountability. With clarity and insight, he offers a series of strategies to reshape the culture and context of leadership in schools to create learning communities where both students and teachers can excel. -- Paul D. Houston, Executive Director
Once again, the writing of Michael Fullan is a tour de force for those who toil in the vineyards of the school principalship. In this latest book, Fullan brings into clear focus the critical role of school leaders to change the content within schools-stressing the need to elevate the moral purpose of schooling in an era of accountability for academic achievement. Fullan makes the critical point-and sets an insightful direction-as to the equally important case for public schools to promote the personal and social development of students. Therein lies Fullan's challenge to school principals. The Moral Imperative of School Leadership is a must read for those who want to make a difference! -- Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director
Fullan shows how moral leadership can reinvent the principalship and bring about large-scale school improvement. This is a masterfully crafted and accessible book by North America's foremost expert on change. -- Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor of Education
This is a must read for any school leader interested in making a difference. Fullan goes to the core of what it takes to transform our schools and, not surprisingly, principals are at the center of the transformation. -- Vincent Ferrandino, Executive Director
Without moral purpose, nothing of value is achieved. We learn how it is deployed effectively, and Fullan makes the difficult but important case that truly moral school leadership recognizes its obligations to the wider community and other schools, an argument that those of us pushing for collegiates will welcome. -- Times Educational Supplement, May 2003
As one has come to expect from this eminent writer, this is a highly readable, well structured, and accessible text that is above all positive. Indeed I have no doubt that many will find the work inspirational. -- Mark Brundrett
As one has come to expect from this eminent writer this is a highly readable, well structured, and acceeible text that is above all postitive. Indeed...many will find the work inspirational. -- School Leadership and Management, November 2003
Excellent book, not only for principals, but for all educators who believe that the 'moral imperative is in the hands of school leaders.' -- Education News, Spring 2004

The Moral Imperative of School Leadership is a practical handbook for educators focusing on the pivotal role played by principals as agents of systematic change...Fullan appeals to something all educators have: the desire to do the right thing and the wish to make a difference.

-- Education Review, January 2005

The Moral Imperative of School Leadership is an important read for school leaders and system administrators, not so much because it provides a prescription for the future of public education, but more because it elevates the moral imperative of public schooling, and enshrines the view that effective school leadership must be driven from a deep moral purpose.

-- Journal of Educational Administration

About Michael Fullan

Michael Fullan, (OC) is the former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto. He is co-leader of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global initiative (www.npdl.global). Recognized as a worldwide authority on educational reform, he advises policymakers, local leaders, and school communities in helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children's learning. He served as Premier Dalton McGuinty's Special Policy Adviser in Ontario from 2003-2013. Fullan received the Order of Canada (OC) in December 2012. He holds five honorary doctorates from universities around the world. Fullan's latest books are: Coherence: Putting the right drivers in action (with Quinn); Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World (with Quinn, McEachen); Dive into Deep Learning: Tools for Engagement (Quinn, McEachen, Fullan, Gardner, & Drummy), Surreal Change (autobiography), Core Governance (with Davis Campbell), Nuance: Why Some Leaders Succeed and others Fail, The devil is in the details: System solutions for equity, excellence , and well-being (with Gallagher), Spirit work and the science of collaboration (with Mark Edwards). Fullan and his team currently work on 'system transformation' in education in several countries globally. For more information on books, articles, videos, podcasts please go to www.michaefullan.ca.

Table of Contents

Foreword - John I. Goodlad Preface About the Author Dedication 1. Changing the Context The Public Schools We Need The Principals and Teachers We Need 2. Barriers to School Leadership Self-Imposed Barriers System-Imposed Barriers 3. The Moral Imperative at the School Level Level 1: Making a Difference in Individuals Level 2: Making a Difference in the School The Emerging Image of the Moral Imperative of the Principalship 4. Making a Difference Beyond the School Level 3: Making a Difference Regionally Level 4: School Leadership and Society 5. How to Get There: The Individual and the System The Individual The System References Index

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CIN0761938729G
9780761938729
0761938729
The Moral Imperative of School Leadership by Michael Fullan
Michael Fullan
Used - Good
Hardback
SAGE Publications Inc
20030610
112
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