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Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issues in School Leadership


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Featuring the leading figures in educational leadership, this new resource from Owings and Kaplan connects best thinking with best practices and emerging issues in school leadership. The contributing authors-including Michael Fullan, Linda Darling-Hammond, Alan November, Robert Marzano, Gerald Tirozzi, and Gene Carter-present leading research and key considerations to assist in making decisions about new programs and new directions for your school.

This book highlights:

  • Future Trends
  • Recruiting
  • High-Stakes Testing
  • Teacher Quality
  • Technology
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Special Education
  • School Law
  • Political Environment
  • Building-level Change
  • Parent/Community Relationships

Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issues in School Leadership unites the ideas of these leading educators and researchers with the perspectives of practicing principals, reconciling theory and fieldwork with recommendations for best practice-truly applying research-into-practice into one manageable, accessible guide.



Table of Contents:
Prologue - William A. Owings and Leslie S. Kaplan A Brief Look at the ISLLC Standards About the Editors About the Contributors Part I: Understanding Schools and School Leadership 1. Changing Demographics: A Call for Leadership - Harold L. Hodgkinson ISLLC Questions References 2. Media and Political Misrepresentation of Public Education - Gerald W. Bracey ISLLC Questions References Lessons Learned Part II: Leading Change 3. Implementing Change at the Building Level - Michael Fullan ISLLC Questions References 4. Challenges to Leading and Sustaining School Change - William Patterson ISLLC Questions 5. The New Effective Schools - Gordon Cawelti ISLLC Questions References 6. Politics and Education: A Conundrum for School Leadership - Gerald N. Tirozzi ISLLC Questions References Lessons Learned Part III: Teaching and Learning 7. Curriculum and Instruction: Critical and Emerging Issues for Educational Leadership - Robert J. Marzano ISLLC Questions References 8. Enhancing Teaching - Linda Darling-Hammond ISLLC Questions References 9. Teacher Quality - Thomas S. Mawhinny and Laura L. Sagan ISLLC Questions References 10. Using Technology to Change School Learning Culture - Alan November ISLLC Questions Reference 11. Integrating Technology Into Instructional Design - Frank M. Betts ISLLC Questions Annotated References 12. Professional Development in Instructional Technology: A Case Study - Richard W. Shelly ISSLC Questions Lessons Learned Reference Part IV: Meeting Individual Learners′ Needs 13. What Instructional Leaders Need to Know About Special Education - Chriss Walther-Thomas and Michael F. Di Paola ISLLC Questions References 14. Making Inclusion Work - Patricia Jordan Rea ISLLC Questions References 15. Talent Development With English Language Learners - Nora G. Friedman ISLLC Questions References 16. Connecting Authentic Knowledge and Academic Accountability Through Personal Learning Plans - Kelly Clarke/Keefe, Patricia Morgan and Susan Brody Hasazi ISLLC Questions References 17. Severely and Profoundly Disabled Students in the School Community - Phyllis Milne ISLLC Questions 18. Working With Special Education Advocates - Marguerite A. Pittman ISLLC Questions 19. Technology and Gifted Learners - Sandra L. Berger ISLLC Questions References Lessons Learned Part V: Accountability 20. High-Stakes Testing - Ronald S. Brandt ISLLC Questions 21. Are Standards the Answer? - Linda Nathan ISLLC Questions 22. Critical Issues in School Law - Jennifer A. Sughrue and M. David Alexander ISLLC Questions 23. Emerging Issues in Special Education Law - Kathleen S. Mehfoud ISLLC Questions 24. Sustaining the Investment: Technology or Teachers? - Kenneth A. Engebretson Lessons Learned Part VI: Future Trends in Education 25. Changes in Educational Practice - Gene R. Carter ISLLC Questions References 26. Changes in the Educational Landscape - Paul D. Houston ISLLC Questions Lessons Learned Epilogue - Leslie S. Kaplan and William A. Owings Index

About the Author :
William A. Owings was Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.  Owings had worked as a public school teacher, an elementary school and high school principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent of schools. His scholarly publications, co-authored with Leslie S. Kaplan, included books on educational leadership and school finance as well as articles in National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Bulletin, Journal of School Leadership, Journal of Effective Schools, Phi Delta Kappan, Teachers College Record, the Journal of Education Finance, and the Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics. Owings had served on the state and international boards of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and was a member of the Journal of Education Finance Editorial Advisory Board. He also reviewed articles for the NASSP Bulletin Educational Administration Quarterly, Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, and International Journal of Education Research. He was a frequent presenter at state and national conferences and a consultant on educational leadership, school finance, and instructional improvement. The National Education Finance Association honored Owings with its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2014, recognized him as a “Distinguished Fellow of Research and Practice.”  Owings and Kaplan share the 2008 Virginia Educational Research Association Charles Edgar Clear Research Award for Consistent and Substantial Contributions to Educational Research and Scholarship. Leslie S. Kaplan, a retired school administrator in Newport News, Virginia, is a full-time education writer, a former researcher with the Old Dominion University (ODU) Research Foundation, and adjunct professor of educational leadership at ODU in Norfolk, VA.  She has provided middle school and high school instructional leadership as well as central office leadership as a director of program development. Before becoming a school administrator, she worked as a middle school and high school English teacher and school counselor with articles frequently published in The School Counselor. Kaplan’s scholarly publications, co-authored with William A. Owings, appear in numerous professional journals. In addition to this fourth edition of Foundations of Education, she has co-authored several books and monographs with Owings, including American Public School Finance (4th ed.); Introduction to the Principalship (2nd ed.);  Equity Audits and School Resource Allocation: Applying Critical Resource Theory to Increase Equal Opportunity in Schools; Critical Resource Theory:  A Conceptual Lens for Identifying, Diagnosing, and Addressing Inequities in School Funding; Organizational Behavior for School Leadership: Leveraging Your School for Success; Culture Re-Boot: Reinvigorating School Culture to Improve Student Outcomes; Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Education; Teacher Quality, Teaching Quality, and School Improvement; Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issues in School Leadership; and Enhancing Teacher and Teaching Quality. Kaplan served for 20 years on the NASSP Bulletin Editorial Board. With experiences in a variety of education roles, she has the unique distinction of being honored as both Virginia’s Counselor of the Year and Assistant Principal of the Year. She is a past president of the Virginia Counselors’ Association and the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and she served as Board Member and Secretary for Voices for Virginia’s Children. She is a 2014 National Education Finance Academy “Distinguished Fellow of Research and Practice.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780761978633
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 580
  • Weight: 540 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0761978631
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 215 mm


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