Full Description
In this book, Zach Kelehear offers readers a new perspective on an important, dynamic, and sometimes daunting issue: managing successful school-based leadership. Kelehear uses an arts-based approach to weave together notions of research-based leadership skills for successful school-based management with standards of professional competence as represented by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders. The author encourages readers to engage in the seemingly persistent problems and old trials of school management from a new perspective resulting in some refreshing possibilities for supporting student achievement in schools. It is also the goal of this arts-based approach that the reader might begin to more fully recognize the complexity of leading and managing students and teachers within the constantly evolving culture of today's schools. As a result of this qualitative inquiry, the author invites a new vision for old assumptions in schools, for teacher leadership, and for student learning.
Contents
Chapter 1 Preparing the Canvas: Connecting the Aesthetics of Learning, Teaching, and Instructional Leadership Chapter 2 Elements of Art: Perceiving, Conceptualizing, Developing, Reflecting on Performances in the Classroom Chapter 3 Line: Declaring Expectations Chapter 4 Value: Deciding What Matters Most Chapter 5 Shape: Managing the Learning Environment Chapter 6 Form: Recognizing and Understanding Perspectives Chapter 7 Space: Balancing Support and Challenge Chapter 8 Color: Encouraging Alternative Approaches Chapter 9 Texture: Joining Pieces of the Quilt Chapter 10 Conclusions: Elements and the Art of Instructional Leadership Chapter 11 Appendix A: National Staff Development Council Standards Chapter 12 Appendix B: Standards for Advanced Program in Educational Leadership Chapter 13 Appendix C: Standards for Instructional Supervision Chapter 14 Appendix D: The Research Study Outline and Results
