Collaborative School Leadership

Ron Nash; Kathleen Hwang

doi:10.5771/9781475800593

Summary

In Collaborative School Leadership, Nash and Hwang provide administrators with clear and focused ideas on making the most of collaborative leadership while on the path to continuous improvement. Recognizing that classroom instruction is at the core of any plan of improvement, this book looks at the role and nature of powerful building-level professional development. Nash and Hwang provide answers to critical questions: As part of a school’s improvement efforts, what is non-negotiable? What are some barriers to progress, and how can they be overcome or removed? How can building administrators help teachers improve instruction? An extensive appendix provides principals and teacher leaders with ten lessons and an entire chapter is devoted to the kind of formative support that building administrators can provide in the pursuit of student progress. Finally, Nash and Hwang elaborate on the whole decision-making process, and differentiate between the kind of independent and interdependent reflection that is part of the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement at the building level.

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Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-0058-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-0059-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 150
Product type: Book Titles

1. CONTENTS No access
2. PREFACE No access
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
4. INTRODUCTION No access
5. PROLOGUE No access
CHAPTER 1: INTENTIONAL LEADERSHIP WITH AN INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS No access Pages 1 - 12
CHAPTER 2: INDEPENDENT AND INTERDEPENDENT REFLECTIONS AND DECISIONS No access Pages 13 - 28
CHAPTER 3: EFFECTIVE AND ENGAGING CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION No access Pages 29 - 44
CHAPTER 4: FOCUSED AND DIFFERENTIATED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT No access Pages 45 - 58
CHAPTER 5: IDENTIFYING AND REMOVING BARRIERS No access Pages 59 - 72
CHAPTER 6: HARNESSING THE POWER OF FORMATIVE SUPPORT No access Pages 73 - 86
CHAPTER 7: BUILDING CAPACITY AND SUSTAINING IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS No access Pages 87 - 98
EPILOGUE No access Pages 99 - 102
APPENDIX A: SAMPLE LESSON PLANS WITH ADMINISTRATIVE LOOK-FORS No access Pages 103 - 118
APPENDIX B: INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER’S LOOK-FOR CHECKLIST No access Pages 119 - 122
APPENDIX C: SAMPLE CHECKLISTS AND RUBRICS No access Pages 123 - 128
APPENDIX D: OBSERVATION-RELATED FORMS No access Pages 129 - 134
APPENDIX E: ONE SIP JOURNEY No access Pages 135 - 138
REFERENCES No access Pages 139 - 142
INDEX No access Pages 143 - 148
ABOUT THE AUTHORS No access Pages 149 - 150