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Chairing an academic department comes with a multitude of responsibilities in a wide variety of areas. As a new department chair, you immediately confront many of the basics of academic leadership: managing budgets, supporting faculty, resolving conflict, and...
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Jossey-Bass
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2011-10-11
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The Department Chair
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As a new department chair, you face many challenges?chief among them that you likely received little or no formal training in academic leadership. You may feel that you face these challenges alone, but in fact a wealth of information and time-tested techniques have been...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-10-04
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The Department Chair
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The essential guidelines for leading effective change in your school From an education expert comes a much-needed resource that gives teacher leaders the strategies and tools they need to improve their practice and assume new leadership roles in their schools.The author...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-03-16
Collection :
Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
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Leadership pervades every aspect of organizational and social life, and its study has never been more diverse, nor more fertile. With contributions from those who have defined that territory, this volume is not only a key point of reference for researchers, students and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-02-17
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The keys to having an outstanding career as a school leader.The American educational system is in crisis; trends of recent years have been extraordinarily hard on educators. An entire generation of school leaders is retiring, many of them early, and the number of...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2010-01-22
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'This book makes an important contribution to the literature on educational leadership and should help to shift the emphasis from rational and accountability-related models to an explicit recognition of the importance of emotions to effective leadership' - Educational...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-01-13
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'I recommend the book as an inspiration to those who are looking for the words that express what they may already do (or will do in the future!) for these well known writers have world wide experience in recognising and knowing what it is that makes the passionate...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-08-21
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'This is a very good and much needed book. Written by a very experienced researcher and teacher in the education leadership world it brings together a wealth of understanding and insights in the field of leadership and management development in education' -...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-03-17
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`If you are intending to embark upon or support others taking part in any of the programmes of the National College for School Leadership I would definitely keep this book close by' - Cliff Jones, CPD Update
What are values? Where do our values come from? How do our...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-06-04
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`This book tackles the leadership question by looking both outward and inward, the latter being how to sustain oneself as a leader...Developing Sustainable Leadership is an important contribution to the field of educational leadership' - Education Libraries
`This...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-04-12
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'Motivating Your Team is an excellent handbook for all those who intend to get the best out to their team, to motivate, lead and support individuals as well as groups of people, and thus assist them in maximizing their performance as professionals….[It] is an excellent...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-04-12
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'What makes this book stand out in the crowd is the engaging approach the authors have taken to present their argument and the novel treatment they offer of diversity and diversity management…a must-read for anyone in a leadership position or interested in investigating...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-03-01
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'Chris James, Michael Connolly, Gerald Dunning and Tony Elliott have produced a comprehensive analysis of the very effective primary school. Although the research for the book draws on the authors' experiences in Welsh Primary Schools, the range of literature cited...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-02-28
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'The book is a good introduction to anyone taking on middle leadership in the primary sector, and will be useful to heads and deputies who are considering how to organise their schools in the face continuing change and increasing accountability' - Times Educational...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-09-28
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`This is an important book for anyone who is serious about introducing or sustaining democratic leadership in schools. Busy practitioners will get much from it by going straight to the chapters about how democratic leadership could be made to work`- Kate Myers, Times...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-08-31
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`This is a book packed with ideas and insights. It is informed by evidence from school leaders and provides a valuable overview of many important theories and research findings. A strength of the book is the way it pulls together empirical research the authors have...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-09-28
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'This wide-ranging and thought-provoking book provides an alternative approach to personal and professional leadership development. Although directed at headteachers, it has much to say to all staff irrespective of whether they are in formal positions of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-13
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`The papers in the book make a very useful and stimulating contribution to the current debate about evidence-informed practice in relation to developing educational leadership' - Journal of In-Service Education
`This is a very worthwhile book with, unusually,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2003-08-07
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Leadership is the key to excellence. And leadership can be learned. Thank goodness, because many people who fall into managerial positions haven't the foggiest notion how to lead. They don't feel driven to attain the competencies of a boss -- much less a great boss....
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PublicAffairs
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2003-07-21
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`An inspiring resource for Headteachers, deputy Headteachers and any primary teacher who desires a leadership rile. All teachers who want to lead, or want to make themselves aware of problems faced by leaders, will not only find this book useful and informative but will...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2003-07-03
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