Principals as maverick leaders [electronic resource] : rethinking democratic schools / Sharron Goldman Walker, Michael Chirichello.
2011
LB2831.92 .W348 2011eb
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Principals as maverick leaders [electronic resource] : rethinking democratic schools / Sharron Goldman Walker, Michael Chirichello.
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9781610483506 (electronic bk.)
9781610483483
9781610483490 (pbk.)
9781610483483
9781610483490 (pbk.)
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Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2011.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 252 p.)
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LB2831.92 .W348 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.2/0120973
Summary
After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey. The principal discovers that the reasons for winning the award are a sham! As her school falls apart, she begins toreflect on the stagnant school organization and the ineffective prescriptions for improvement. She wonders why as a democratic nation, American schools do not model the practice of democracy for students. The principal begins her quest to unearth the flaws in her own thinking about the way schools work in her quest to create more democratic schools. Endeavoring to understand how systems really work, the principal puts her new ideas into practice and shares with the reader the lessons learned from past practices. This book presents a guide for principals in the form of rules that suggest that educational leaders must ask themselves why they do what they do. It also takes readers through a series of vignettes focused on how principals can practice democracy in the schoolhouse, while challenging themselves and their school community.
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Chirichello, Michael.
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. The principal as classical mechanic
pt. 2. Taking the quantum leap.
pt. 2. Taking the quantum leap.