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Informationen zum Autor Leslie S. Kaplan, Ed.D. is a retired school administrator in Newport News, VA and is currently a full-time education writer. She has provided middle and high school instructional and school improvement leadership as an assistant principal for instruction as well as central office leadership as a director of program development. Before becoming a school administrator, she worked as a middle and high school counselor, and these insights continue to infuse her leadership behaviors. Her professional interests focus on teacher quality, principal quality, and school finance and their relationship to school improvement and increasing student achievement. She has co-authored several books and monographs with William Owings including American Public School Finance (2nd edition); Educational Foundations (2nd edition); Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Education: Theory into Practice; The Effective Schools Movement: History, Analysis, and Application; Teacher Quality, Teaching Quality, and School Improvement; Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issue in School Leadership; and Enhancing Teacher and Teaching Quality. Kaplan's scholarly publications, co-authored with Owings', appear in numerous peer-reviewed professional journals. Kaplan is co-editor of the Journal for Effective Schools, and also serves on the NASSP Bulletin Editorial Board. She is a past president of the Virginia Counselors' Association and the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and presently sits on the board of Voices for Virginia's Children. http://www.ejbe.org/EJBE2012Vol05No10p45OWINGS-KAPLAN-PIRIM.pdf http://issuu.com/odujes/docs/journal_for_effective_schools/1?mode=a_p http://www.effectiveschoolsjournal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=72 http://www.ejbe.org/EJBE-2012-Nov-5-10.htm Klappentext Your start-up menu for super-charged culture change There's an invisible thread woven through your school that defines everything from dress codes to student success. It's your school culture, and reshaping it will yield highly visible improvements for teachers and students. Leslie Kaplan and William Owings guide you in improving leadership, teaching, learning, confidence, and trust throughout your school. Culture Re-Boot reframes school culture to include organizational learning, relational trust, accountability, program improvement, and teacher effectiveness while showing you how to: Be the transformational leader your school needs to reinvigorate your school culture Establish a student-centered learning culture focused on student outcomes Engage teachers in culture-focused leadership teams that support teacher and student learning Get parents and community on-board to collaborate for student achievement Connect professional development and school culture for maximum results Packed with hands-on culture re-boot activities to help school leaders and faculty revitalize their school's values and practices, this practical handbook for school improvement will energize your school's culture and build the capacity to help all students succeed. Zusammenfassung Packed with hands-on activities! this practical handbook shows you how to be the transformational leader your school needs to enact a culture change and improve student outcomes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors 1. School Culture and Change as Learning Focus Questions Why 40 Years of School Reform Has Not Worked (and Why Culture Re-Boot Will) What is Culture Re-Boot? What is School Culture? Components of Positive School Cultures Change as Organizational Learning Understanding Your School's Culture Research: The Impact of School Culture on Student Achievement Resources 2. ...
