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Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement

Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change

By: James P. Spillane,Amy Franz Coldren

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Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement

Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change

By: James P. Spillane,Amy Franz Coldren

In this practical resource, The authors maintain that to effect real reform today's educators must understand how leading and managing for instructional improvement gets done in their school and in turn use their diagnoses as the basis for mindful design and redesign.

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Teachers College Press

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0807770779

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9780807770771

Distributed Leadership

By: James P. Spillane

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Distributed Leadership

By: James P. Spillane

James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, including routines and tools of various sorts in the organization such as memos, scheduling procedures, and evaluation protocols. This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education—a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.

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150

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118429338

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9781118429334

Challenging Standards

Navigating Conflict and Building Capacity in the Era of the Common Core

By: Jonathan A. Supovitz,James Spillane

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Challenging Standards

Navigating Conflict and Building Capacity in the Era of the Common Core

By: Jonathan A. Supovitz,James Spillane

The Common Core State Standards are at the center of the latest firestorm in American education reform. But this is not the nation’s first torrid experience with standards implementation. In Challenging Standards, Jonathan Supovitz and James Spillane bring together the collective knowledge of top education researchers who have both experienced and investigated education reform challenges in the past. Combining both evidence-based research and applied knowledge, the contributors share with educational leaders their accrued wisdom about implementing standards in classrooms and systems, building capacity through relationships, and navigating the fractious political terrain. Each section of the book contains a set of facilitative questions that will help leadership teams, book clubs, and professional learning communities connect the chapters to their work.

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210

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475815867

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9781475815863

Navigating the Principalship

Key Insights for New and Aspiring School Leaders

By: James P. Spillane,Rebecca Lowenhaupt

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Navigating the Principalship

Key Insights for New and Aspiring School Leaders

By: James P. Spillane,Rebecca Lowenhaupt

In Navigating the Principalship, James P. Spillane and Rebecca Lowenhaupt look at the major challenges of the principal position, examining how new principals adapt to the role, set an instructional agenda, and build cooperation and collaboration. They focus in particular on the dilemmas that mark the principalship—the inevitable, complicated conflicts that arise from a clash of worthwhile values and resist simple solutions, such as - Addressing the demands of various internal and external stakeholders - Accomplishing seemingly limitless tasks in limited time - Sharing leadership duties while maintaining ultimate responsibility for the school and everyone in it - Creating a safe space for teaching and learning while building bridges to the outside world - Balancing work life and home life Based on original research conducted with new principals in an urban environment, and rich with authentic voices discussing real conflicts and proven strategies, this book presents pragmatic ways to manage the most difficult parts of the job. Use it to spark both reflection and action and chart a course for effective, rewarding school leadership.

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141

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ASCD

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1416627731

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9781416627739

Standards Deviation

How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy

By: James P. Spillane

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Standards Deviation

How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy

By: James P. Spillane

What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms? Although policy implementation is generally seen as an administrative problem, James Spillane reminds us that it is also a psychological problem. After intensively studying several school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies in the early 1990s, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through administrative levels, the understanding of them becomes increasingly distorted, no matter how sincerely the new ideas are endorsed. Such patterns of well-intentioned misunderstanding highlight the need for systematic training and continuing support for the local administrators and teachers who are entrusted with carrying out large-scale educational change, classroom by classroom. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments 1. Making Education Policy Here, There, and Everywhere 2. Doing Standards: Content and Context 3. Interactive Policymaking 4. Making Policy, Making Sense 5. Resources for Sense-Making 6. The Schoolteacher and Interactive Policymaking 7. Policy in Practice 8. Implementation Reconsidered Appendix: Research Methods References Index Policy implementation is like the telephone game. . . . the player at the start of the line tells a story to the next person in line, who then relays the story to the third person in line. . . . by the time the story is retold by the final player, it is very different from the original. --chapter 1

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Harvard University Press

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0674043928

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9780674043923

Neuropsychology and the Dementias

By: Siobhan Hart,James M. Semple

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Neuropsychology and the Dementias

By: Siobhan Hart,James M. Semple

This book summarizes current knowledge of the neuropsychology of dementia, highlights the multifaceted nature of the problem, and argue that an input from neuropsychologists can facilitate the advances made by other neuroscientists

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Psychology Press

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0863771963

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9780863771965

Navigating the Principalship

Key Insights for New and Aspiring School Leaders

By: James P. Spillane,Rebecca Lowenhaupt

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Key Insights for New and Aspiring School Leaders

By: James P. Spillane,Rebecca Lowenhaupt

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Standards Deviation

How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy

By: James P. Spillane

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How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy

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Distributed Leadership

By: James P. Spillane

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John Wiley & Sons

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Book's by James P. Spillane

Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement

Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement

Distributed Leadership

Distributed Leadership

Challenging Standards

Challenging Standards

Navigating the Principalship

Navigating the Principalship

Standards Deviation

Standards Deviation

Neuropsychology and the Dementias

Neuropsychology and the Dementias

Navigating the Principalship

Navigating the Principalship

Standards Deviation

Standards Deviation

Distributed Leadership

Distributed Leadership

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