Strengthening the Heartbeat - Leading and Learning Together in Schools

A HANDBOOK FOR HELPING YOUR SCHOOL ACHIEVE EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS >--Roland Barth, founding director, Harvard Principals' Center >--Susan Moore Johnson, Pforzheimer Professor of Teaching and Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education >--Linda Lambert, professor emeritus, California State University, Hayward >--John MacBeath, professor of educational leadership, Cambridge University

List of contents

Preface: Strengthening the Heartbeat ix
The Author xix
Introduction: Value-Added Leadership Redux 1
1. Mindscapes 21
2. Leadership as Entitlement 41
3. Making Visions Useful 55
4. Hope, Trust, Community, and Other Virtues 75
5. A Teacher-Centered Approach 101
6. Collaborative Cultures and Organizational Competence 117
7. Using Ideas to Back Up Leadership 139
8. Styles, Dispositions, and Stages Count Too 163
References 179
Index 191

About the author

Thomas J. Sergiovanni is Lillian Radford Professor of Education and Administration at Trinity University in San Antonio. He is the author of The Lifeworld of Leadership, Leadership for the Schoolhouse, Building Community in Schools, and Moral Leadership (all from Jossey-Bass).

Summary

Study after study has concluded that no matter how competently managed a school may be, it is the bringing together of leadership and learning that makes the difference between ordinary and extraordinary performance. Strengthening the Heartbeat offers leaders a clear and compelling way to help their schools achieve extraordinary results.

Product details

• Authors: Sergiovanni, Thomas J Sergiovanni, Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Thomas J. (Trinity University in San Sergiovanni, Tj Sergiovanni, Sergiovanni Thomas J.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2015
• EAN: 9781119133223
• ISBN: 978-1-119-13322-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Jossey-Bass Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, EDUCATION / Teaching / General, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy