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New: Remember Our Mission: Making Education and Schools Better for Students: The 2009 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration

Editors: Charles M. Achilles, Beverly Irby, Betty Alford, George Perreault

Strategies for preparing school leaders to manage schools in a changing culture
Techniques for classrooms, cohorts, distance learning and web sites

This book, the latest in the NCPEA series, forms a collection of selected and highly refereed original papers focused on the subject of how universities can best prepare school leaders in the United States at a time when increasing numbers of students are from diverse linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. The volume presents practical methods for school leaders to improve educational outcomes and furnish a fairer distribution of opportunities to students.

Table of Contents

Teaching and Assessing Dispositions in Principal-Preparation Programs, R. Lindahl

Los Principio y Los Lideres Escolares Del Cambio Democratico: The Principles and the Principals of Democratic Change for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, B. Alford, M.C. Niño

Preparing Future School Leaders: How Can It Be Accomplished Online, A. Ramirez, B. Burnett, S. Meagher, J. McMullen-Garcia, R. Lewis

Front-line Education Administration Requires Concepts of Schooling Outcomes Beyond Test Score, C. Achilles

A Comprehensive Theory and Practice of Constructivist Leadership, A. Shapiro

The Synergistic Leadership Theory: A 21st Century Leadership Theory, B. Irby, G. Brown, L. Yang

Fostering Resiliency: Making Schools A Better Place for Students with Dyslexia, C. Butler, S. Edmonson

Leadership in Children’s Books: Bridging Values of Equity in Creating Gender Awareness, P. Marecellino, L. Berman-Wolf

Leadership for Social Justice: Voices of Female School Principals, J. Ballenger, S. Harris, J. Tareilo, S. Ninness, S. Stewart

High School Exit Exams and Conditional Standard Error or Mismeasurement, C. Tienken

Money Matters: Making Schools Better for Children—An Equity Study of Mean Per-Pupil Instructional Expenditures Among Property-Wealthy and Property-Poor School Districts in Texas, C. Steelman, E,. Jane Irons, N. Leffel Carlson

Leadership in the Effective Change Zone: A Case Study of the High-Touch Needs of Educators Implementing the Georgia Performance Standards, W. Polka

Challenging the Battleship Mentality of Education Leadership and Practice: A Metaphor Borrowed from History, D. Larsen

Seeking to Make Schools Better for Students: High-School Principals Implementing Professional Learning Communities (PLCS), C. Wells, L. Feun

Looking for the Crossroad: Merging Data Analysis and the Classroom through Professional Learning Communities Dialogue, S. Jackson, R. B. Good

We Are True Witnesses on the Side of Those Who Are Oppressed: People of Color and Co-created Leadership, C. Boske

ISBN: 1-885432-49-6 Hardcover. 248pp. Author Index. 2009. $54.95.