These days, you can get cookie-cutter-style reform books just about anywhere. But your school district is unique and needs specific strategies that affect your students and fit your mission and goals. Focused Leadership is a guidebook that your school system can use to improve student achievement―not by sweeping changes that don't stick, but by adapting the traditional roles of people involved in operating schools. From this book you can build a systemic, need-specific approach that is a collaborative effort between school board, administration and teaching staff. Castallo provides specific examples, descriptions of leadership roles and real-life examples of three important principles: honest assessment of student performance, systems building, and ongoing collaboration.

Focused Leadership

Education & Teaching

Castallo, Richard T.

Houston American Association of School Administrators, Paul D.

Schools & Teaching

R&L Education

Thoughtful and sometimes humorous insights, based on real life circumstances are the basis of this practical guide for fostering more effective working relationships between superintendents and board members. Suggestions for goal setting, chapters on common concerns including communication, leadership, micro management, support, and student achievement are among the important issues discussed. Delicate matters such as dealing with a termination action so as to create the least damage to the district as well as the individual are included making this a valuable resource for identifying the often confusing line between policy and practice.

Focused Leadership: School Boards and Superintendents Working Together

Dealing with Dysfunction: A Book for University Leaders

Dealing with Dysfunction provides a real-life view of a college department gone awry. A complete lack of trust exists between faculty, department chairs past and present; and particularly within the faculty itself. Name calling, sabotage, and an unwillingness to even be in the same room with department colleagues to discuss matters involving student and program concerns have become the norm. When pressed to participate in a meeting, one faculty member states: “You can make me come there, but you can’t make me say a word, and I won’t.”Acknowledging the professionalism of the vast majority of college professors that staff institutions of higher education, Dealing with Dysfunction looks at the options a chair and dean have available to them when dealing with a cadre of professors in a department that unable to work together.

Higher & Continuing Education

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dealing with Dysfunction provides a real-life view of a college department gone awry. A complete lack of trust exists between faculty, department chairs past and present; and particularly within the faculty itself. Name calling, sabotage, and an unwillingness to even be in the same room with department colleagues to discuss matters involving student and program concerns have become the norm. When pressed to participate in a meeting, one faculty member states: “You can make me come there, but you can’t make me say a word, and I won’t.” Acknowledging the professionalism of the vast majority of college professors that staff institutions of higher education, Dealing with Dysfunction looks at the options a chair and dean have available to them when dealing with a cadre of professors in a department that unable to work together.

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Focused Leadership

Focused Leadership: School Boards and Superintendents Working Together

Dealing with Dysfunction: A Book for University Leaders

Dealing with Dysfunction: A Book for University Leaders