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Educational Leadership Styles – Improve Leadership Styles
Education is the best achievement an individual can attain. It is an important aspect of human life. Thus, leadership in the aspect of education is being looked into since its success is dependent largely on how it is brought about.
The educational leadership style is very important because this will answer concerns of students, educators and even the society as a whole. There are several educational leadership styles and it is important that an individual understands these types individually pertaining to the methods and what can be achieved from these styles. Some of them would try a single method and some a combination. Using this method is also one way of figuring out what works best for the organization or community.
These styles are based on the understanding that certain characteristics, such as physical energy and or social interaction play a part in the way education is imparted. The educational leadership style is meant to strengthen the Read the rest of this entry »
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas, Third Edition Reviews
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas, Third Edition
The third edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with the complex dilemmas in today’s challenging and diverse society. Through discussion and analysis of real-life moral dilemmas that educational leaders face in their schools and communities, authors Shapiro and Stefkovich demonstrate the application of their four ethical paradigms—the ethics of justice, care, critique, and profession. After an illustration of how the Multiple Ethical Paradigm approach may be applied to real dilemmas, the authors present a series of cases written by students and academics in the field representing the dilemmas faced by practicing educational leaders in urban, suburban, and rural settings in an era full of complexities and contradictions. Following each case are questions that call for thoughtful, complex thinking and help readers come to grips with their own ethical codes and apply them to practical situations.
Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders: Data-Driven Decision Making (Scarecrow Education Book)
Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders: Data-Driven Decision Making (Scarecrow Education Book)
“The chief executive officer of a corporation is not much different from a public school administrator. While CEOs base many of their decisions on data, for school administrators, this type of research may conjure up miserable memories of searching for information to meet a graduate requirement. However, the value of data-based decision making will continue to escalate and the school community — students, teachers, parents and the general public — expect this information to come from their administrators. Administrators are called on to be accountable, but few are capable of presenting the mountain of data that they collect in a cohesive and strategic manner. Most statistical books are focused on statistical theory versus application, but Statistics Made Simple presents statistics in a simple, practical, conceptual, and immediately applicable manner. It enables administrators to take their data and manage it into strategic information so the results can be used for action plans that benefit the school system. The approach is user friendly” and leaves the reader with a confident can-do attitude to communicate results and plans to staff and the community.”