Educational Leadership, Culture, and Success in High-Need Schools

Educational Leadership, Culture, and Success in High-Need Schools
Author: Elizabeth T. Murakami
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1641135034

The exploration of the intersection of leadership practices from the school principal and other educators, the school culture, and the school success across different high-need contexts and cultures make this volume unique. Chapters in this volume present original investigations or reanalysis of empirical research enhancing our understanding of the interrelationship between leadership, culture and success through descriptions of practice that can contribute to lessons in leadership for school improvement. When considering a culture of success, leadership that focuses on impacting schools in high-need areas bring about lessons on how to create sustainable environments for student learning in challenging contexts. High-need schools include not only socioeconomic challenges influencing the performance of students. It includes multiple external and internal factors impacting leaders, teachers, students, and their families, affecting the management of structures, processes, and most importantly, learning. In the quest to improve high-need schools, and understand strategies for principals dedicated to a variety of contexts, this volume brings lessons with application for researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners who want to join in the quest to improve the quality of education among worldwide communities.

Turning High-poverty Schools Into High-performing Schools

Turning High-poverty Schools Into High-performing Schools
Author: William Parrett
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416613137

What do high-performing, high-poverty schools do differently? Learn the day-to-day realities and the actionable research gleaned from hundreds of these schools -- and discover how your school can adopt practices that make a positive difference, too.

The School Leadership Playbook

The School Leadership Playbook
Author: Jean Desravines
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1119044057

A proven framework for whole-school improvement The School Leadership Playbook is a practical guide foreducation leaders looking to push their school's and students'achievement to the next level. Developed by renowned leadershippreparation program New Leaders, the Transformational LeadershipFramework focuses on the five categories that drive a school'ssuccess: Learning and Teaching, School Culture, Talent Management,Operations and Systems, and Personal Leadership. This bookillustrates how each of these factors contributes to breakthroughgains, and outlines a plan for implementing changes in your ownschool. You'll learn how to accurately diagnose the current stateof your school's academics and culture and create an action planfor the year ahead. The TLF is grounded in the latest research andcase studies of the highest-gaining turnaround schools, and showsyou the specific actions you can take to attract, retain, andsupport high-performing teachers; improve school culture;successfully involve parents and the community; and ultimatelydrive student success. New Leaders developed the UEF to pinpoint what schools achievingsignificant student academic gains were doing, and how they weredoing it. This book provides a practical breakdown of the frameworkto help you begin leading these changes in your own school. Ensure rigorous goal- and data-driven teaching andlearning Build and manage a high-performance faculty aligned to theschool's vision Implement effective and efficient operations and systems Model the tone you would like to see from students and teachersschool-wide By matching the needs of the school to effective principalactions and school practices, leaders can create a plan fortransformational change.

Disrupting Poverty

Disrupting Poverty
Author: Kathleen M. Budge
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416625291

Kathleen Budge and William Parrett offer research-based and classroom-tested reflection questions, tools, protocols, and success stories designed to disrupt poverty's adverse influence on learning.

Leadership on Purpose

Leadership on Purpose
Author: Rosemary Papa
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2002-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452237468

"With a wonderful mix of theory and practice, this volume is for professionals and for lay people, indeed for anyone interested in the crucial questions related to educational leadership in this country. The authors are to be congratulated, and the readers will be grateful for their efforts." Barry Munitz President and CEO JP Getty Trust Learn proven techniques to increase achievement in ethnically diverse classrooms! This compelling guide masterfully demonstrates how high achievement can exist in the midst of high minority enrollment and high poverty. By drawing upon the best practices of 13 exemplary schools, the book highlights the specific means by which ethnically diverse—namely African American and Latino—students can attain educational success. These "Promising Practices" are presented in a user-friendly, well-organized format, with real examples interwoven throughout. An invaluable resource, it shares school-tested methods that can be replicated readily, including: 7 strategies for principals to be effective leaders, creating a culture of equal learning opportunities for all students 8 tactics for successful curriculum and classroom instruction, from assessment to staff development 9 proven ways to make meaningful connections with parents, which promote higher student and teacher performance

Leadership Characteristics in High Performing High Poverty Secondary Schools

Leadership Characteristics in High Performing High Poverty Secondary Schools
Author: Cecilia L. Crear
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN:

Urban secondary school leaders not only have the pressures of accountability, growth, and mobility, but they also face a myriad of additional issues including poverty, drugs, teen pregnancy, and crime. Despite these challenges, some urban high schools continue to thrive and afford students an exemplary academic environment. Following an analysis of multiple academic achievement data elements, this qualitative study identified and implemented a selection criteria to invite principals of five secondary urban highperforming, high-poverty schools in Texas to participate in an interview process to identify the leadership practices that contribute to their schools' high academic performance. Analysis of the data uncovered six major themes associated with increasing student achievement, including high expectations and beliefs, instructional leadership, culture builder, vision, student interventions based on data, and collaboration with campus leaders in the decision making process. Solutions to urban school leader challenges and professional development recommendations for school leaders were also iscussed.

Best Leadership Practices for High-poverty Schools

Best Leadership Practices for High-poverty Schools
Author: Linda L. Lyman
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781578860791

Best Leadership Practices for High-Poverty Schools presents both the practice and theory of best leadership practices in high-poverty schools. Authors Linda Lyman and Christine Villani take a unique approach by inviting readers into two high-poverty elementary schools where they will experience, through in-depth case studies, how two extraordinary principals model and practice their beliefs in the ability and worth of all children. Lyman and Villani demonstrate that a successful learning community for children of low-income families is based on the beliefs and attitudes of the school leader and the entire school community. Preparation programs for school principals typically do not provide for study of the complexity of poverty or the leadership practices that contribute to successful learning and achievement for children in high-poverty schools. The concluding questions that the authors pose provide a guide to developing best leadership practices that make a difference to the learning, achievement, and lives of children who live in poverty.This book offers: an insightful overview of research about leadership strategies and beliefs in high-poverty schools, causes and remedies for the achievement gap, evidence of continuing racial and ethnic prejudice, the widespread deficit thinking that limits learning. The authors challenge leaders, teachers, staff members, and others to examine their own attitudes and beliefs and then to commit to creating successful learning communities for all children from low-income families. This book is written as a resource for aspiring and practicing principals, or anyone interested in improving educational opportunities for children from families living in poverty.

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools
Author: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317412397

Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a difference at all levels of urban school leadership. Grounded in research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real urban elementary, middle, and high schools face as well as the catalysts for improvement. This insightful resource explores the critical leadership characteristics found in high-performing urban schools and gives leaders the tools to move their schools to higher levels of achievement for all students—but especially for those who are low-income, English-language learners, and from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. In shining a light on the essential qualities for exceptional leadership at all levels of urban schools, this book is a valuable guide for all educators and administrators to nurture, influence, support, and sustain excellence and equity at their schools.