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Filled with critical insights from best-selling authors and expert practitioners, this unique anthology presents important articles, seminal reports, and book excerpts defining the field of educational leadership today. This comprehensive reader features twenty-four chapters in five primary areas of educational research and concern: Leadership, management, and organizational behavior Principals, superintendents, and other leaders Diversity, including gender and race issues Moral leadership and building community Shared leadership between educators

Both policy and practice are the focus of this rich and varied volume. The authors base their findings on real-world experience and leading-edge research--sharing practical lessons and strategies for the school or classroom. From the scholar to the practitioner, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Educational Leadership is a powerhouse of valuable information.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Sources (p. xi)
• About the Authors (p. xv)
• Introduction (p. xix)
• Part 1 Leadership, Management, and Organizational Behavior
• 1. The Nature of Leadership (p. 3)
• 2. "Give Me a Lever Long Enough ... and Single-Handed I Can Move the World" (p. 13)
• 3. Condensation of the Fourteen Points for Management (p. 26)
• 4. We Need Noncoercive Lead-Management from the State Superintendent to the Teacher (p. 28)
• 5. Leadership as an Organizational Quality (p. 38)
• 6. People and Organizations (p. 59)
• Part 2 Principals and Superintendents
• 7. Looking for Leaders (p. 73)
• 8. Standards for School Leaders (p. 97)
• 9. The Unheroic Side of Leadership: Notes from the Swamp (p. 114)
• 10. Educational Leadership for the Twenty-First Century: Integrating Three Essential Perspectives (p. 126)
• 11. Learning to Lead (p. 146)
• 12. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century: Breaking the Bonds of Dependency (p. 156)
• 13. The Manager as Politician (p. 164)
• 14. Leading a School System Through Change (p. 182)
• 15. Eight Roles of Symbolic Leaders (p. 202)
• Part 3 Diversity and Leadership
• 16. Gender and Race as Factors in Educational Leadership and Administration (p. 217)
• 17. Gender and Supervision (p. 257)
• Part 4 Moral Leadership
• 18. Leadership as Stewardship: "Who's Serving Who?" (p. 269)
• 19. The Authentic Leader (p. 287)
• 20. Building a Community of Virtue (p. 309)
• Part 5 Shared Leadership
• 21. Good-Bye, Command and Control (p. 339)
• 22. Teacher Leadership: Ideology and Practice (p. 348)
• 23. Principals, Shared Decision Making, and School Reform (p. 366)
• 24. Assessing the Prospects for Teacher Leadership (p. 390)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Cherry A. McGee Banks is an associate professor of education at the University of Washington-Bothell. She also serves as a faculty associate at the Center for Multi-Cultural Education at the University of Washington-Seattle.
Roland S. Barth is a former public school educator and was the founding director of the Principals' Center. He is on the faculty at Harvard University.
Karen E. Bohlin is an assistant professor in the School of Education and director of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, Boston University.
Lee G. Bolman occupies the Miriom H. Bloch Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Steven T. Bossert is dean of the School of Education at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
Joseph Cambone was formerly a professor of education at Wheelock College in Boston.
Terrence E. Deal is the Irving R. Melbo Professor of Education at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) was a pioneer in the field of quality management and a leader of the rebuilding of Japanese industry after World War II
Robert Evans is a clinical and organizational psychologist and is director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Michael Fullan is dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
John Gardner, founder of Common Cause and the White House Fellows Program, served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Johnson administration. He now holds the Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professorship in Public Service at Stanford University.
William Glasser is a board-certified psychiatrist and founder of the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles, California.
Susan Moore Johnson is the Carl H. Phorzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ann Lieberman is an emeritus professor from Columbia University Teachers College in New York. Currently, she is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a visiting professor at Stanford University.
Judith Warren Little is professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she serves as chair of the faculty of the Graduate School of Education.
David D. Marsh occupies the Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Instruction and is director of the Center for School Leadership at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Matthew B. Miles was a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research at Columbia University Teachers College before his death in 1996.
Jerome T. Murphy is professor of education and dean of the Faculty of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Irene Nowell is superintendent of the Remsenburg-Speonk Union Free School District in Remsenburg, New York, where she has served in that capacity for ten years.
Rodney T. Ogawa is associate dean and professor in the School of Education at the University of California-Riverside
Andy Perry is principal of the Wilson School in Westfield, New Jersey.
Kent D. Peterson is a professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the founding director of the Vanderbilt Principals' Institute at Vanderbilt University.
Kevin Ryan is founder and director emeritus of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston Univeristy.
Ellen R. Saxl is president of Educational Agenda Company, a research and consulting firm.
Phillip C. Schlechty is president and CEO of the Center for Leadership in Education Reform in Louisville, Kentucky.
Thomas J. Sergiovanni is the Lillian Radford Professor of Education and Administration at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for Educational Leadership and founding director of the Trinity Principals' Center.
Charol Shakeshaft is a professor in foundations, leadership, and policy studies at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
Peter M. Senge is a founding member and is currently the director of the Society for Organizational Learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in Cambridge.
Carol H. Weiss is a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Margaret Wheatley is a partner in the consulting firm of Kellner-Rogers and Wheatley and is a cofounder of the Berkana Institute--a nonprofit research foundation supporting organizational change