William Paterson University Educational Leadership: Books

Illustrates how performance and practice represent the art of educational leadership, while the delineation of the skills and conceptual models represent the science.

The Dark Side of Educational Leadership provides valuable insights into specific resiliency behaviors that contribute to superintendents' abilities to overcome the trauma associated with being a professional victim.

Essential guide to meeting the challenges of high-stakes accountability, building performance-based schools, and improving student outcomes.

Offers researchers and academics a global perspective of the leading theories and ideas within educational leadership and administration.

Demonstrates the insights and skills needed by leaders in education in an increasingly diverse society.

Leaders reflect upon the ways in which their careers have been shaped by early family influences, by random events and surprise opportunities, and by nascent intellectual interests and academic mentoring.

Explores different perspectives and sets a framework for rethinking school leadership and management and an agenda for future research.

Contains the articles, book excerpts, and seminal reports that define and drive the field of educational leadership today.

Classic guide continues to be the leading Research Methods text that specifically deals with Educational Leadership and Management.

Offers a radical critique of prevailing models of leadership in education, particularly models of school leadership..

Practical guide for education leaders looking to push their school's and students' achievement to the next level.

Examines topics such as the nature of leadership, especially distributed and teacher leadership; the politics of education management; the construction of inclusive cultures in schools; school improvement; and the construction of collaborative and inclusive work groups.

Promotes critical thought and constructive analysis about underlying values that involve educational leadership.