Keys To School Leadership
Subtitle: A practical guide for current and aspiring school leaders
Publisher: Acer Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Melbourne, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781742860213
Description: When Phil Ridden’s book School Management: A Team Approach was
published in 1992, it met with critical acclaim. In it he described the
evolving meaning of school leadership, promoting the notion of team
leadership and exploring the implications for practice.
While understandings and expectations have moved on, some of the
essential principles conveyed in that influential work are yet to be
adeptly applied in schools. Keys to School Leadership reviews the core
concepts that are still fundamental to leadership success today through a
contemporary lens, and expands on these to reveal emerging directions
for school leaders.
Keys to School Leadership works because it comes from a principal and
an academic whose dual perspectives inform and underpin this practical,
highly accessible guide. Each chapter contains ‘Reflect’, ‘Shift the Focus’,
‘Make it Personal’ and ‘Further investigation’ sections that scaffold the
developing themes.
Moving from leadership to influence, from individual to team, from
classroom to school, and beyond, Keys to School Leadership embeds a
critically reflective mindset not just for principals, but for all school-based
people who lead or who aspire to lead.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 l From administration to leadership l Beyond leadership to influence; title: Chapter 2 l From tasks to goals l Beyond goals to achievement; title: Chapter 3 l From maintenance to improvement l Beyond improvement to alignment; title: Chapter 4 l From individual to team l Beyond team to partnership; title: Chapter 5 l From delegation to negotiation l Beyond negotiation to collaboration; title: Chapter 6 l From classroom to school l Beyond school to the world; title: Chapter 7 l From dependency to empowerment l Beyond empowerment to succession; title: Chapter 8 l From role to relationship l Beyond relationship to community; title: Chapter 9 l From certainty to uncertainty l From uncertainty to coherence; title: Chapter 10 l From the top to the centre l Beyond the centre to the heart and soul; title: Chapter 11 l The critically reflective leader