Focused leadership : how to improve student achievement /
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Education, published with the American Association of School Administrators,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Are we getting the results we want?
- The frustrations of teachers
- The frustrations of administrators
- The frustrations of school board members
- Changing roles
- Focused leadership
- Principles of focused leadership
- 2. The role of the Board of Education
- Three approaches to involving the board in setting goals
- Preparing to set goals
- Recognizing positive results
- The board of education and goal setting-subsequent years
- The Board of Education and reviewing results
- Planning cycle
- Goal monitoring
- The Board and policy development
- Providing funding
- Public relations
- The role of central administration
- Mission scan
- Personnel systems
- Evaluation systems
- Modeling
- Reviewing goals
- The role of the assistant superintendent
- Program management cycle
- 4. The role of building leadership
- Goal setting at the local level
- Data: teacher by teacher
- Instructional delivery
- Working within the Standards-Based Curriculum
- 5. Getting started
- First steps
- Options for meetings
- Setting goals
- Making goals public
- Implementing
- Immediate actions
- Long-term actions
- The small picture
- The big picture.