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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.
Promoting Leadership Development and Collaboration in Rural Schools
Promoting Leadership Development and Collaboration in Rural Schools
This chapter focuses on the challenges faced by school leaders, particularly those in rural areas. It describes how one professional-development program for school leaders—the University of California, Merced, San Joaquin Valley School Leadership Program—was developed to provide quality support for school leaders that enhanced their effectiveness in a range of leadership areas. Prominent among these skills is collaborating with teachers and other stakeholders. This professional-development program was designed to help principals, vice principals, and district office leaders deal effectively with the challenges they face.
California and other states have joined the paradigm shift in education that swept the United States in the 1990s: the move from providing schooling for all ...
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