Building level administrators, district level administrators, and other school leaders. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Strategies for school improvement . The key to data-based decision making . Leadership, teamwork and the bottom line .
Emphasis is placed on knowledge, dispositions, and performances of strategic leadership.
Themes of the knowledge, performances and dispositions to identify contexts, developing with others vision and purpose, utilizing information, framing problems, exercising leadership processes to achieve common goals, and acting ethically for educational communities are covered in depth. These categories drive the planning and delivery of the program and specific courses. The following goals have been developed to reflect the relationship of this course to that knowledge base, with the understanding that the focus is heavily on Groups and Institutions and Clinical Application and Practice . Facilitate the development and implementation of a shared vision and strategic plan for the school or district that focuses on teaching and learning . Examples of skills include how group norms are cultivated, how institutional culture is influenced, how core values are affirmed in organizations, and how strategic planning is developed and implemented in organizations.