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Ramsey, Robert D. – 1999
This manual is designed to help educational administrators move beyond the performance of routine management activities and function as true leaders. It offers prospective and practicing administrators alike practical lessons on how to think, act, plan, set priorities, manage time, and make decisions as an effective leader. The text focuses on…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Leaders
Pellicer, Leonard O. – 1999
This book examines what it means to be a leader. It is intended not only for education leaders, but for anyone who feels compelled to provide the most effective leadership they can. The content is based on the author's 30 years of experience as a professional educator. Each chapter illustrates a component of leadership through a series of…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
Direct linkDimmock, Clive; Walker, Allan – SAGE Publications, 2005
The aim in writing this book is to explore the relationships between school leadership and culture. Educational leadership is a socially bounded process. It is subject to the cultural traditions and values of the society in which it is exercised. In this it is no different from other social processes. It thus manifests itself in different ways in…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Organizational Culture
Lifto, Don E.; Senden, J. Bradford – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2004
"Education officials need to furnish leadership in school elections.... An unsuccessful election reduces educational opportunities for students" (Kimbrough and Nunnery, 1971, p. 4). Who can argue with this simple statement? Providing effective leadership, however, is not that easy. Research and practice have yet to yield an election formula that…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, School Business Officials, School Districts, Leadership Effectiveness
Download full textGreenfield, William D. – 1991
Recognizing the importance of leadership in effective school administration, this document begins by discussing leadership as defined by Etzioni (1975), including ideas such as personal influence; positional power; the difference between instrumental and expressive leadership; and organizational type as defined by the dominant means of control in…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Smith, Stuart C., Ed.; Piele, Philip K., Ed. – 1989
Recognizing the importance of good leadership to the achievement of educational excellence, the second edition of this handbook synthesizes a large body of school leadership literature and explores the subject from three perspectives: the person, the structure, and the skills. Part I examines characteristics of today's educational leaders;…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Communication Skills
