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Making Sense as a School Leader
Richard H. Ackerman
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Description for Making Sense as a School Leader
Hardcover. This text, written for aspiring and practising principals, provides a guide to school leadership. The authors offer real-life case examples of typical leadership dilemmas in such areas as student discipline, teacher assessment, fiscal management, parental involvement and schoolwide planning. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
"A real contribution to an over-discussed subject.... This book reaches below the surface to the real issues and relationships that confront principles in their orchestration of the daily affairs of teachers, parents, and students."
--Harold Howe II, former president of the Ford Foundation for Education and Public Policy
Based on the work of the prestigious Harvard Principal's Center, this book shares some of the "sense" that practicing principals have made of their own complex experiences. The authors offer real-life case examples of typical leadership dilemmas in such areas as student discipline, teacher assessment, fiscal ... Read more
"A real contribution to an over-discussed subject.... This book reaches below the surface to the real issues and relationships that confront principles in their orchestration of the daily affairs of teachers, parents, and students."
--Harold Howe II, former president of the Ford Foundation for Education and Public Policy
Based on the work of the prestigious Harvard Principal's Center, this book shares some of the "sense" that practicing principals have made of their own complex experiences. The authors offer real-life case examples of typical leadership dilemmas in such areas as student discipline, teacher assessment, fiscal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787901646
SKU
V9780787901646
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Ref
99-1
About Richard H. Ackerman
RICHARD ACKERMAN is assistant professor of education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Education and lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is co-director (with Rebecca van der Bogert) of the International Network of Principals' Centers. He lives in Cambridge. GORDON A. DONALDSON is professor of education at the University of Maine and coordinator ... Read more
Reviews for Making Sense as a School Leader
"A real contribution to an over-discussed subject...This book reaches below the surface to the real issues and relationships that confront principals in their orchestration of the daily affairs of teachers, parents, and students." (Harold Howe II, former president of the Ford Foundation for Education and Public Policy)