Leadership For Rural Schools

Author : Hans W. Klar,Kristin Shawn Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429875977

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Developing Rural School Leaders by Hans W. Klar,Kristin Shawn Huggins Pdf

Developing Rural School Leaders combines a focus on rural education and school leadership development to illustrate how the teaching and learning conditions in rural schools can be enhanced through transformative leadership coaching. By unpacking literature related to rural school leadership development and using case studies to authentically illustrate the complexities involved in rural school leadership development, this book explores how leaders can develop their abilities to increase data-informed instructional decision making, create a culture that supports teaching and learning, and develop other leaders. Ultimately, this important book concludes with an exploration of the opportunities and challenges of developing rural school leaders.

Author : Donald M. Chalker
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461649656

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Leadership for Rural Schools by Donald M. Chalker Pdf

More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural schools in general and their leaders. This book will be of special interest to everyone involved in the operation of a rural school district.

Author : Donald M. Chalker
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780810844360

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Leadership for Rural Schools by Donald M. Chalker Pdf

Based on anecdotal information, this guide to school administration illustrates the application of basic leadership principles in small schools and rural settings. Sixteen essays by educators and scholars of educational administration describe contemporary trends and problems in rural schools, the roles of the school board and superintendent, school improvement, relationships with students and teachers, technology, collaboration, decision-making, quality assessment, and curriculum. This is a reprint of a 1999 book (Technomic Publishing). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Greene, H. Carol,Zugelder, Bryan S.,Manner, Jane C.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799827894

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Handbook of Research on Leadership and Advocacy for Children and Families in Rural Poverty by Greene, H. Carol,Zugelder, Bryan S.,Manner, Jane C. Pdf

Rural poverty encompasses a distinctive deprivation in quality of life related to a lack of educational support and resources as well as unique issues related to geographical, cultural, community, and social isolation. While there have been many studies and accommodations made for the impoverished in urban environments, those impoverished in rural settings have been largely overlooked and passed over by current policy. The Handbook of Research on Leadership and Advocacy for Children and Families in Rural Poverty is an essential scholarly publication that creates awareness and promotes action for the advocacy of children and families in rural poverty and recommends interdisciplinary approaches to support the cognitive, social, and emotional needs of children and families in poverty. Featuring a wide range of topics such as mental health, foster care, and public policy, this book is ideal for academicians, counselors, social workers, mental health professionals, early childhood specialists, school psychologists, administrators, policymakers, researchers, and students.

Author : E. Robert Stephens,Walter G. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033210969

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Leadership for Rural Schools by E. Robert Stephens,Walter G. Turner Pdf

The rural school superintendency is, in many ways, as demanding and difficult as the urban superintendency. Chapter 1 of this book provides a working definition of a rural small school district, an estimation of the number of rural systems in the nation that fit the criteria, and a profile of rural small school superintendents. Chapter 2 discusses the basic nature of the work of rural superintendents and the roles they perform. Chapter 3 describes the advantages and problems with rural school districts in the areas of community relationships and control, finance, administration, teachers, students, and curriculum and instruction. It also discusses the lingering problems of financing and staffing rural small schools. Chapter 4 considers possible rewards of the rural superintendent in terms of pay, fringe benefits, and job security. Chapter 5 reviews new pressures facing rural education such as changing enrollment patterns, fiscal constraints, school improvement initiatives, and family choice options. The book concludes with recommendations for a new commitment at the local, state, and national levels to develop comprehensive, integrated, and cohesive policies that will strengthen and enrich the rural small school superintendent. (KS)

Author : Slapac, Alina,Coppersmith, Sarah A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799819646

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Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators by Slapac, Alina,Coppersmith, Sarah A. Pdf

Educators all over the world are being challenged to provide effective instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners and immigrant communities while valuing and celebrating students’ cultural backgrounds. This task requires training, professional development, cultural sensitivity, and responsibility to promote positive outcomes. Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators is a critical research publication that bridges linguistics theory and practice and comprehensively addresses all fundamentals of linguistics through the English language learning lens. Featuring topics such as curriculum design, immigrant students, and professional development, this book is essential for educators, academicians, administrators, curriculum designers, instructional designers, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Author : Nathan Templeton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792319029

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Voices from the Field by Nathan Templeton Pdf

Author : Zugelder, Bryan S.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799865025

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Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity by Zugelder, Bryan S. Pdf

Teacher leadership remains at the forefront of conversations in teacher education, with discussions on recruitment, retention, and effectiveness. Teachers are at the core of schooling, and the roles they assume and types of leadership they engage in are multi-dimensional. Teacher leadership comes in many shapes and definitions. In this sense, both opportunities and challenges exist in teacher leadership. While national competencies continue to define dispositional and knowledge base for teacher leaders, there is still work to be done to define and add to the body of scholarship on this topic. Teacher leadership opportunities provide development for teachers as a key retention strategy; however, role ambiguity presents challenges in how to empower teachers for formal and informal roles of leadership while maintaining the teacher identity. Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity provides a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges of teacher leadership, drawing on research and practice that add to the body of knowledge for teacher leadership, which is a niche in education that differs from educational administration. Highlighted topics within this book include models for teacher leadership, teacher education, types of leadership roles, the development and retention of teacher leaders, and leadership across different types of school districts. This book is ideally designed for inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in teacher leadership roles and the way in which teacher identity is maintained in relation to these other leadership positions.

Author : Nathan Templeton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792319037

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Voices from the Field by Nathan Templeton Pdf

Author : Joseph A. Raelin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317408239

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Leadership-as-Practice by Joseph A. Raelin Pdf

This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of particular individuals. A practice is a coordinative effort among participants who choose through their own rules to achieve a distinctive outcome. It also tends to encompass routines as well as problem-solving or coping skills, often tacit, that are shared by a community. Accordingly, leadership-as-practice is less about what one person thinks or does and more about what people may accomplish together. It is thus concerned with how leadership emerges and unfolds through day-to-day experience. The social and material contingencies impacting the leadership constellation – the people who are effecting leadership at any given time – do not reside outside of leadership but are very much embedded within it. To find leadership, then, we must look to the practice within which it is occurring. The leadership-as-practice approach resonates with a number of closely related traditions, such as collective, shared, distributed, and relational leadership, that converge on leadership processes. These approaches share a line of inquiry that acknowledges leadership as a social phenomenon. The new focus opens up a plethora of research opportunities encouraging the study of social processes beyond influence, such as intersubjective agency, shared sense-making, dialogue, and co-construction of responsibilities.

Author : Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin
Publisher : IAP
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648026751

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Rural School Turnaround and Reform by Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin Pdf

We have entitled the fourth book in the series Rural School Turnaround and Reform: It’s Hard Work! Overall, the body of scholarly work and research that examines school turnaround and reform in rural areas is slim; as such, this volume adds to the body of work and contributes to new knowledge in a much-needed area. In this volume, we present chapters that speak to the challenges, successes, and opportunities to improve low-performing rural schools. Chapters range from conceptual arguments to policy analyses or research findings, as well as some combination of these or other ways to consider rural school turnaround and reform.

Author : Johnny R. O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 1522592458

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Strategic Leadership in PK-12 Settings by Johnny R. O'Connor Pdf

"This book explores the relevance and necessity of strategic leadership in K - 12 settings. It also discusses the correlates, ideologies, and approaches that connect to strategic leadership in education"--

Author : Amy Price Azano,Devon Brenner,Jayne Downey,Karen Eppley,Ann K. Schulte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000220438

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Teaching in Rural Places by Amy Price Azano,Devon Brenner,Jayne Downey,Karen Eppley,Ann K. Schulte Pdf

This teacher education textbook invites preservice and beginning teachers to think critically about the impact of rurality on their work and provides an overview of what it means to live, teach, learn, and thrive in rural communities. This book underscores the importance of teaching in rural schools as an act of social justice—work that dismantles spatial barriers to economic, social, and political justice. Teaching in Rural Places begins with a foundational section that addresses the importance of thinking about rural education in the U.S. as an educational environment with particular challenges and opportunities. The subsequent chapters address rural teaching within concentric circles of focus—from communities to schools to classrooms. Chapters provide concrete strategies for understanding rural communities, valuing rural ways of being, and teaching in diverse rural schools by addressing topics such as working with families, building professional networks, addressing trauma, teaching in multi-grade classrooms, and planning place-conscious instruction. The first of its kind, this comprehensive textbook for rural teacher education is targeted toward preservice and beginning teachers in traditional and alternative teacher education programs as well as new rural teachers participating in induction and mentoring programs. Teaching in Rural Places will help ensure that rural students have the well-prepared teachers they deserve.

Author : Simon Clarke,Tom O'Donoghue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317595922

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School Leadership in Diverse Contexts by Simon Clarke,Tom O'Donoghue Pdf

School Leadership in Diverse Contexts demonstrates the centrality of context to understanding school leadership. It offers varied portrayals of leadership in a diverse range of distinct settings. Each chapter highlights the prominence of context in understanding the realities of school leadership, focusing on issues and influences that school leaders face, strategies school leaders adopt to deal with the complexities of their work, and conceptualisations of school leadership relevant to the context. An impressive array of international experts examine this neglected area of research by considering school leadership in nine heterogeneous contexts, providing rich and varied portrayals of school leadership and suggesting ways in which the leadership may be enhanced. School Leadership in Diverse Contexts is an ideal book for undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly those studying units in educational leadership, comparative education and educational policy. Similarly undergraduate and postgraduate students engaged with development studies, history, sociology, law, human geography will be attracted to this text.

Author : R. Martin Reardon,Jack Leonard
Publisher : IAP
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641132237

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Making a Positive Impact in Rural Places by R. Martin Reardon,Jack Leonard Pdf

Following on from the preceding volume in this series that focused on innovation and implementation in the context of school-university-community collaborations in rural places, this volume explores the positive impact of such collaborations in rural places, focusing specifically on the change agency of such collaborations. The relentless demand of urban places in general for the food and resources (e.g., mineral and energy resources) originating in rural places tends to overshadow the impact of the inevitable changes wrought by increasing efficiency in the supply chain. Youth brought-up in rural places tend to gravitate to urban places for higher education and employment, social interaction and cultural affordances, and only some of them return to enrich their places of origin. On one hand, the outcome of the arguable predominance of more populated areas in the national consciousness has been described as “urbanormativity”—a sense that what happens in urban areas is the norm. By implication, rural areas strive to approach the norm. On the other hand, a mythology of rural places as repositories of traditional values, while flattering, fails to take into account the inherent complexities of the rural context. The chapters in this volume are grouped into four parts—the first three of which explore, in turn, collaborations that target instructional leadership, increase opportunities for underserved people, and target wicked problems. The fourth part consists of four chapters that showcase international perspectives on school-university-community collaborations between countries (Australia and the United States), within China, within Africa, and within Australia. The overwhelming sense of the chapters in this volume is that the most compelling evidence of impact of school-university community collaborations in rural places emanates from collaborations brokered by schools-communities to which universities bring pertinent resources.