Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-Based Approach to Implementing the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

by Reginald Leon Green

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Here’s what today’s educational leaders need to know, what they should be able to do, and how they should behave in order to lead schools that address the needs of all students.

Practicing the Art of Leadership by Reginald Leon Green presents success-proven practices, processes, and procedures grounded in time-tested theories, current research, and the creative, innovative, real-life experiences of educators in the field who are transforming underperforming schools into thriving educational learning communities. An invaluable guide to what today’s educators need to know, how they need to do it, and the ways they should behave as exemplary leaders, the book takes into account the many changes in the standards, competencies, and accountability movements that have ushered in a new set of demands, requirements, and expectations for today’s educational leaders. Complete coverage of the new topics, methods, and techniques effective educational leaders are using to address these changes appear throughout the text and are aligned with the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, formerly known as ISLLC Standards. This new edition features opportunities for reflective practice through the use of scenarios depicting actual school issues, occurrences, and the behavior of practicing school leaders to help readers acquire knowledge and skills that can be used to build a solid framework for their own practice. The book’s focus on how to use the new 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders helps educators develop teacher capacity, create professional learning communities, effectively manage organizational resources, construct appropriate organizational policies and systems, lead instructional change, and engage in other deep and meaningful work outside of the classroom and in the community. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos and assessments.

 

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Genres: Education

318 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 14, 2016

Reviews

[Tony Matins · Rating 2 out of 5]

The examples and exercises in this book were quite thought-provoking. It is excellently sourced.

I hope, in future editions, much of the verbiage is cut from this book. Half a page of text, and a chart, on p108, describes how most schools are organized into elementary, middle, and high schools, and how high schools have departments. I suppose if you’re not from around here, this might be useful information, but still this text book wouldn’t be where you’d go to figure that out.

Similarly, whole paragraphs are devoted to topics such as, “When you make choices, you don’t know the outcomes for sure.” And “Relationships with staff members can be positive or negative depending upon your actions.” Common-sense stuff, but expressed in a overly verbose way.

Between all that is occasional, genuinely-useful insight, but you have to read through a great deal of chaff to get to it.

Additionally, the print-edition has “buttons” printed on the page that “link” to videos, with no direction or ability to get to those videos without purchasing the digital edition. I suppose the physical book is an advertisement for the digital one? Otherwise, I’m not sure why these “buttons” are printed on my page.

[Caleb Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A textbook you might encounter for an principals course in your master’s. The first chapter covers the PSEL standards and how the apply to educational leaders. Chapters 2 & 3 uncover different leadership traits and styles. The rest of the textbook explores decision-making processes, communication, conflict, goals/vision making. Green uses scenarios at the end of chapters to apply content into a practical way.

[Jessalyn Lopez]

For the masters 👩‍🎓