Full Description
Leading School Renewal explores how school principal leadership behaviour impacts on school change endeavours, and in particular pedagogic renewal, which is a form of educational improvement that is primarily concerned with the growing of the knowledge, skills and beliefs of education in a manner that optimises students' life options. The authors identify attributes of principals who have engaged in school renewal and examine the influences on their leadership behaviours and disposition towards renewing their schools while also acknowledging the influence of site-specific contextual variables. The authors propose that certain leadership behaviours exhibited by school principals are integral with renewing a school's pedagogic focus. They argue renewal is a preferred form of sustainable educational change because it relates to deep-seated cultural changes in approaches to pedagogy, curriculum and school structures. Whilst also maintaining that leadership is at the heart of school improvement and principal leadership practices which are based on a clear sense of purpose, values and beliefs about learning and teaching can transform a school into a learning organisation.
Including a foreword by Professor John Hattie, this book is appropriate for all school leaders and educators who want to learn more about school leadership behaviours and highly effective school change.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 DEFINING CONCEPTS ASSOCIATED WITH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE: RENEWING SCHOOL RENEWAL
Differentiating School Renewal from School Reform
Leadership of School Renewal
Concluding Remarks on Chapter
CHAPTER 2 SCHOOL LEADER LEADERSHIP AND THE PROCESSES OF LEADING A SCHOOL RENEWAL AGENDA
School Renewal
School Leader Leadership in Framing the School Renewal Agenda
School Leaders' Behaviours Influencing the Teaching and Learning Enterprise
Building a Sense of Cohesion and Team in the School
Concluding Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 3 SCHOOL LEADER EFFICACY AND CHANGE
School leader and Teacher Pedagogic Efficacy
Teachers' Pedagogic Knowledge Bases.
Student Learning and Teachers' Efficacy.
Working with Teacher Self-Efficacy Instruments
Teacher Efficacy and Change
Putting it all Together: Collective Efficacy
Concluding Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 4 MORAL LEADERSHIP GUIDING SCHOOL CHANGE AND VISION SETTING
The Mission and Vision as the Starting Point of Change
The Purpose Statement and Pedagogy
The Impact of a School Leader's Personal Motivation and Flow on their Change Predisposition
School Leader Leadership and Flow
The Importance of Moral Leadership in School Vision Setting
Moral Purpose and Shared Leadership
What is a Shared Moral Purpose?
Shared Leadership
Moral Leadership and Authentic Learning
CHAPTER 5 SYSTEM REFORMS AS CATALYSTS FOR SCHOOL RENEWAL
The System Reform: Moving Towards Greater Local Empowerment
Advantages of a Devolved System of Education
Building Classroom Relationships
The External Factors Influencing Classroom Culture
Pedagogy: A Better Way to go
Supporting Teachers
The Failure to Recognise that Business Models Provide a Better Understanding of What is Happening in Some Education Change Models
The Illusion of Autonomy
CHAPTER 6 SITUATIONAL FACTORS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE
Barriers to Change
Staff Resistance
Staff Union Resistance
Parents
System Level Barriers
Piggy in the Middle (Keep Away)
Toxic Management: A Culture Devouring Its Future!
Toxic Management
Toxic School Culture
Toxic, Reluctant Managers and Toxic, Self -promoting Managers
Toxic Culture Survey:
A Culture of Sycophantocracy is a Barrier to Change Initiatives
Leaders' Achilles' Heels
Sycophantocracy in School Systems
Developing a Field Guide for Identifying the Sycophantocracy
What to Do
General Comment on Chapter
CHAPTER 7 PEDAGOGIC LEADERSHIP: A VIEW OF WHAT REAL SCHOOL LEADERS DO.
Towards an Understanding of Pedagogic Leadership
Pedagogy and Curriculum
Pedagogic Obsolescence: School Leaders as the Endangered Species
The Public Management Movement and its Implications for School Leadership
Pedagogic Leadership and Public Management Policy
Role Discontinuity: Killing School Leaders Softly
The Way Forward: The School Leader as a Significant and Credible 'Other' in the Work of Teachers
Staff Resilience and Work Practices
CHAPTER 8 THE "PEDAGOGIC WARS": A CHALLENGE FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
The "Pedagogic Wars": Deskilling Teachers
Using a Full Repertoire of Teaching Strategies: Tiger Woods's Golf Bag
Audit of Teachers' Pedagogic Skills
Performance Management is a Conversation with a Purpose.
Coaching
Mentoring and Peer Observation
Pedagogic Profile and Performance Management
Rationale Behind the Pedagogic Profile
General Comment on Chapter
CHAPTER 9 DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP IN MODERN SCHOOLING CONTEXTS: DELEGATION IS NOT DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP.
Revisiting Distributed Leadership: All Hands to the Lifeboats.
High Stakes Testing and the Concept of Good in Education
School Leadership: The Importance of a School Leader's Beliefs
Distributed Leadership
One External Education Agency View of School Leadership
Distributed Leadership and Our Take on it.
CHAPTER 10 SCHOOLS AS LEARNING ORGANISATIONS: GROWING ORGANISATIONAL AND BUILDING PROFESSIONAL CAPITAL
Defining a Learning Organisation
What Learning Organisations Look Like
Leadership in a Learning Organisation
Schools as Learning Organisation
Implementing Practices that Characterise the Learning Organisation at the School Level
General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 11 NEW SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: JETTISONING THE COMFORTABLE PRESENT
The Wild, Non-conformist Characteristics of Entrepreneurial School Leadership
Formal Performance Management of the School Leader
Concluding Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 12 VALUE ADDING AND STUDENT VOICE
Measuring Value Added
Assumptions Underpinning Value Adding in Educational Context
General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 13 PROFILING SCHOOL LEADERS' LEADERSHIP QUALITIES
Self-Assessment Issues in Profiling Leadership Behaviours
Profiling Professional Growth Using the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders
General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 14 SCHOOL LEADERS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH
Lessons on Resilience from a Military Context
The Lessons for Education
School Leaders Dealing with a Range of Mental Health Issues Presenting in Schools
The Growth of Mental Health Problems in Schools
The American Case of Adam Lanza
The Australian Case of Martin Bryant
Systemic Early Identification and Risk Management
General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 15 'CATALYTIC TEACHERS' AND THE X FACTOR OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
How Teachers Learn and Accept Changes to their Practice
Catalytic Teachers and Teacher Leadership
The Characteristics of a Catalytic Teacher
Build the Capacity
Catalytic Teachers and the X Factor of Teaching and Learning
CHAPTER 16 ACCOUNTABILITY AND PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
The Tightening "Loose Coupling" Relationships of Schools
Venomous Accountability
General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 17 INTRODUCING THE UNIVERSAL FIVE KEY STEPS TO SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL RENEWAL: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
Leadership and Change
Distributing the Leadership.
A Vision with a 13-Year Horizon
Pedagogic Leadership.
The Accountability Context
Introducing the Planning for School Renewal
The Universal Five Phases of Successful Sustainable Change
The Human Aspect of the Five Phase Change Model
Sequencing of Planning Development
Adaptable, Multi-skilled Leadership
CHAPTER 18 CONCLUSION
Sustainable School renewal - An Ongoing, Continuous Improvement Orientation
A Summary of Our Beliefs About Educational Renewal and Change and School Leaders' Pedagogic Leadership
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