Like the bestselling first edition, this introductory textbook succinctly presents concepts and theories of educational leadership and organizational behavior and immediately applies them to problems of practice. It includes practical case studies, real-world scenarios and analyses, reflection questions, and straightforward explanations of…

This book provides school leaders with nonconfrontational and guilt-free strategies for handling difficult teachers who undermine efforts toward school improvement, negatively influence other staff members, and behave in ways that create problems for students and staff. It looks at what difficult teachers are and compares them to the teacher…

This toolkit is a compilation of ideas, examples, suggestions, activities, tools, strategies, and templates for producing school portfolios that will result in continuous school improvement. The chapters are: (1) Introduction; (2) Continuous School Improvement; (3) The School Portfolio; (4) Information and Analysis; (5) Student Achievement; (6)…

This book explains how California schools, working with the "Education for the Future" initiative, have integrated technology and data-based decision making into their school improvement efforts. The book is a guide to improving school performance by constructing a school portfolio. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction: The Need for a Framework for…