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Through real-life single and multiple case studies, Learning to Lead Together addresses how principals and their staffs struggle with the challenge of shared leadership, how they encourage teacher growth and development, and how shared leadership can lead to higher levels of student learning. The cases show how shared leadership, a powerful adaptive change, is socially constructed across contexts and evolves as teachers and principals learn how to work together. The book also illustrates how principal preparation and professional development programs that utilize problem-based learning and provide opportunities for genuine collaboration with colleagues can provide school leaders with the skills they need to share leadership and accountability effectively.
Principal Choice and Teacher Participation in Site-Based Management: Four Schools Implement One Policy
Principal Choice and Teacher Participation in Site-Based Management: Four Schools Implement One Policy
While teaching an education finance class one evening, I steered the discussion toward collaborative decision making regarding school budget allocations. By this time in the semester, most of the students had discovered that their school's budget is a closely guarded secret and were cynical about the possibility of teachers and parents influencing the allocation of resources. I turned to one student from Prince William County, Virginia, and asked, “You have site-based management in your county. Isn't your budgeting process much more open?” He acknowledged that it is, but he also explained that site-based management (SBM) did not always mean ...
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