School leaders worldwide are under increased pressure to apply business approaches to their schools. For this to work best schools need to have in place solid defensible educational goals to enhance their educational values which must be maintained and protected. This book shows how to achieve this by successfully understanding and translating business strategies which can be applied to people, places, policies, programs and processes within a school. 
This practical book examines the following core subject areas: leadership - shows how business approaches can be interpreted educationally, human resources - looks at the development of human potential, management - provides examples of successful management strategies, change - develops a concept of change based upon 'bettering' educational experiences, educational theory - applies an educational theory of experience, human relations - describes how to develop good relationships with staff within a school, teacher development - presents ways teachers can grow through their work, total quality - interprets total quality in terms of educational experience.

Inviting Educational Leadership: Fulfilling Potential & Applying an Ethical Perspective to the Educational Process (School Leadership & Management)

Education & Teaching

Novak, John M.

Schools & Teaching

Ft Pr

Founded on invitational theory, this book offers a fresh approach for todays teachers. The authors cover the teaching skills and techniques necessary to invite the student to participate in the learning process. They demonstrate the ways in which the teachers beliefs and attitudes about people--including trust, respect, optimism, and intentionality--are paramount in enabling the student to become his/her personal best...

Inviting School Success: A Self-Concept Approach to Teaching, Learning, and Democratic Practice

Business & Money

Purkey, William Watson

Education & Reference

Cengage Learning'

Over 400 schools throughout the world have adopted Invitational Education to foster innovative thinking, sustained positive action, and the creation of socially and emotionally safe schools. As educators are now involved in an epic rethinking of what they do and how they do it, Developing Inviting Schools provides a dependable guide for improvement. Written by two of the creators of the Inviting Schools movement--Purkey and Novak--along with Joan Fretz who works with public schools, this book updates and extends the construct of invitational learning to assist today's teachers and leaders. The authors present a simple, but not simplistic framework that offers real-life responses to such challenges as faculty morale, school safety, conflict management, community involvement, student behavior, motivation, and school success. Use this resource to create, sustain, and enhance the social and emotional climate of your school. Book Features: <ul> <li>A defensible theory of practice based on the community values of intentional care, respect, trust, and optimism.</li> <li>A deep dive into the basic assumptions that guide life in schools.</li> <li>Guidance for developing and maintaining positive school climate initiatives.</li> <li>Practical examples of how Invitational Education works in real-life situations.</li> <li>A fresh and innovative approach to a positive social and emotional learning environment.</li> </ul>

Developing Inviting Schools: A Beneficial Framework for Teaching and Leading

Science & Math

Purkey, William W.

Fretz, Joan R.

Behavioral Sciences

Teachers' College Press

This book is written for the growing number of people (teachers, administrators, support staff, parents, and community members) throughout the world who wish to face the challenges of school leadership in ways that feel right, make sense, and contribute to sustaining defensible educational practices. Using and extending the evolving core ideas of the global inviting school movement, it provides a hopeful approach to educational leadership, management, and mentorship that combines philosophical defensibility, administrative savvy, and illustrative stories. A systematic framework for examining the challenges of educational leadership, the Educational LIVES model, is used to organize the book. It is centred on the idea that leadership is fundamentally about people and the caring and ethical relationships they establish with themselves, others, values and knowledge, institutions, and the larger human and other-than-human world. Emphasized throughout the book are the special quality of relationships needed to appreciate individuals in their uniqueness and the types of messages that intentionally call forth their potential to live educational lives. We call this approach the inviting perspective and offer the experiences of educators from around the world who put imaginative acts of hope into practice daily as they lead, manage, and mentor. Leading for Educational Lives: Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World is divided into three unequal parts. In Part 1, "Educational LIVES Seen From an Inviting Perspective," we offer two orienting chapters that look at the unique nature of education seen as a guiding ideal along with the practical nature of an inviting theory of practice for constructing relationships that call forth deepened human possibilities. The foundations of the inviting approach combined with the Educational LIVES model point to the concrete possibilities for practice in the ten chapters in Part 2, "Imaginatively Leading, Managing, and Mentoring Educational LIVES." Part 3, "Dare to Lead for Education," is made up of a convergent chapter that looks at what is involved in artfully speaking up for educational lives, personally and professionally. This book is meant to serve as a text for anyone interested in educational leadership from an inviting ethical perspective, an approach that is being used by a growing number of educators throughout the world. It can serve as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with a more traditional survey text.

Leading for Educational Lives: Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World (Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, 10)

Armstrong, Denise E.

Browne, Brendan

Brill Academic Pub

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