Table of Contents:
  • 1. Administrative theory and leadership responsibility
  • Flem Snopes High School: a new administrative team
  • Educational leadership
  • Human capital and the accumulated knowledge base
  • Administrative process and knowledge
  • Administrative platforms
  • The knowledge base in educational administration
  • 2. Context and perspective for educational leaders
  • Scrivner Middle School: Understanding the context
  • Contextual knowledge
  • Broad, complex context
  • Educational origins
  • Establishing National Goals
  • The 1990s and beyond
  • New technological demands
  • State roles and responses
  • Challenges in the twenty-first century
  • 3. School reform
  • Scrivner Middle School: Reform at Scrivner
  • The call for school reform
  • The context for school reform
  • Innovative programs
  • Harnessing technology
  • The leadership challenge
  • 4. Cultural diversity and community relations
  • Oakes High School: Cultures clash in Fairhaven
  • Diversity in schools
  • Racial categories: what's in a name?
  • Prejudice and discrimination
  • Competing perspectives: theories, models and approaches to race, class and gender
  • Segregation, desegregation and integration
  • Fostering school, family and community partnerships
  • Connecting schools and community organizations.
  • 5. School district organizational structure and leadership
  • Ophilia School District: Political tensions
  • The local role
  • The local school division
  • The school board
  • The school division superintendent
  • Central Office Operations
  • The School Administrator
  • 6. Successful school leadership
  • Atlas Shrug High School: failing health
  • Assessing leadership characteristics
  • Paradigms of leadership: a growing knowledge base
  • Leadership instrument analyses
  • Recent theories of leadership
  • The reflective practitioner
  • Leadership traits or skills
  • 7. Moral and ethical dimensions of leadership
  • Cuyamaca High School: Value Collision
  • The purposes of leadership
  • Creating community
  • Ethics-based leadership
  • Foundations of ethical behavior: standards for good practice
  • Being an ethical leader: approaches to skill development
  • Building an educational platform
  • 8. Program development, delivery and assessment
  • Linto Elementary School: program improvement
  • Conceptions of Academic Achievement
  • Teaching and learning approaches
  • Curriculum design and educational programming
  • Curricular and instructional change
  • Program improvement and evaluation
  • Utilizing time
  • Assessing student progress
  • 9. Pupil personnel services
  • Thurber High School: student problems
  • Pupil Personnel-Student service team
  • Counseling, guidance, psychological services
  • Special education and remedial instruction
  • School health service
  • Child accounting and school safety
  • Pupil appraisal, testing and diagnostics
  • Extracurricular activities
  • Integrating services for children and families.
  • 10. Human resource management
  • Lincoln Elementary School: staffing problems
  • Taking care of the staff
  • Job analysis, classification and staff planning
  • Recruitment
  • Selection
  • Alternative selection approaches
  • Performance appraisal and evaluation
  • Staff development
  • Organizational development
  • Wage and salaries considerations
  • Collective bargaining
  • Employee records and reports
  • Employee litigation
  • 11. Schools and the law
  • Benton I.S.D.: Not following school board policy
  • Legal responsibility
  • The U.S. legal system
  • Legal issues and schools
  • Monitoring compliance with policies and procedures
  • 12. Resource allocation and management
  • Oceanview School District: identifying funding sources for Meadows High
  • Financing schools
  • Federal involvement in financing schools
  • State involvement in financing schools
  • Local involvement in financing schools
  • Vouchers
  • Nontraditional revenue sources
  • Revenue sources for independent schools
  • Grant writing
  • Budgeting, accounting and facility management
  • Types of budgeting
  • Activity funds
  • Fiscal accounting
  • The audit
  • Managing school supplies and equipment
  • Maintaining school buildings and grounds
  • School safety
  • 13. Problem-based learning projects
  • Problem-based learning
  • Facilitating groups.