Leading from below the Surface : A Non-Traditional Approach to School Leadership

by Theodore Creighton

• ISBN13: 9780761939535
• ISBN10: 0761939539
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Deepen your success with a new, reality-driven model for leadership that tailors corporate management know-how for the classroom and beyond.

Table of Contents

Preface

What This Book is Not About

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Introduction

First, What is the Surface?

OK, Now What Does Below the Surface Mean?

Leadership is Both Objective and Subjective

2. What Does Traditional leadership Look Like and

How Did We Get Here from There?

Behavioral Leadership

Situational Leadership

Contingency Leadership Theory

Path-Goal Theory of Leadership

Transformational Leadership Theory

A Conceptual Framework for Leading from Below the Surface

3. What is Leading from Below the Surface?

Bending the Rules without Breaking Them

Managing Your Portfolio of Political Capital

Bourdieu and Capital

4. Evidence-Based Decision-Making

Below the Surface: Data or Evidence-Based?

Data-Driven vs. Evidence-Based Decision-Making

Attendance Rates vs. Absence Rates

Narrowing the Achievement Gap

Drop-Out Rate: 2% or 28%?

Concluding Thoughts

5. Institutional Effectiveness vs. Strategy

A Closer Look at Strategy

How Does Strategy Relate to School Leadership?

Describing the Strategy

Identifying Positive and Negative Forces

6. Cooperation vs. Collaboration

Closing Thoughts

7. Looking Beyond the Obvious

From Superintendent to Secretary of Education

The SAT Story

Let's Look at the Data

Not Settling for Embroidering the Edges

Concluding Thoughts

8. Creating Leadership Behaviors: A Leadership Practice Field

OK, On to a Leadership Practice Field

Defining a Practice

A Practice Field Further Defined

Practicing Leading from Below the Surface

Practicing Listening

Practicing Respecting

9. Implications for Practicing School Administrators

Accountability

Leading from Below the Surface

The Disjuncture Between Societal Use and School Use of Technology

The Virtual Classroom

References

Index