Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity

By Alan M. Blankstein

Meet the challenges of today′s changing schools through shared leadership

Today′s rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.

Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:

The characteristics and nature of effective leadershipSustainable leadership built on shared visionImproving classroom teaching and student learningLarge-scale reforms that benefit the entire school communityRecruiting and developing new leaders, and much more

This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412949351
• ISBN13: 9781412949354
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"