Reframing the Path to School Leadership: A Guide for Teachers and Principals

by Terrence E. Deal and Lee G. Bolman

Book Overview

"Here is a rare blend of storytelling and analysis, brought together in a book that is both insightful and inviting. Lee Bolman and Terry Deal allow us to see our schools, and ourselves, through the lens of imagination rarely found in educational literature, offering embattled and discouraged educators the precious gifts of vision and hope."

Parker J. Palmer, author
Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761946071
• ISBN13: 9780761946076
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book for teachers to read, new or veteran

I would recommend this book to any teacher. It is inspiring and has a good educational base. It teaches the reader many things while you read it. I had to read this for a master's course and really enjoyed it. It is like a novel in that it has a plot to it, but also has a reference guide aspect to it as well. It was helpful to me to read.

Great book, quick read!

Bolman & Deal's Reframing the Path to School Leadership is an interesting read. They use four frames of reference--the political frame, human resource frame, the structural frame, and the symbolic frame--to discuss leadership, both on the classroom and school level. They use a fictional cast of characters that includes new and veteran teachers, and new and veteran principals. At first I was wary of the fictional narrative, but I found it interesting and it kept me reading. At the end of each chapter, which includes a number of fictional scenarios on familair themes (beginning of the year, discipline, tracking, special education), there is a discussion part that I found very helpful. I'm a beginning principal, and I found this book informative and enlightening. It's also written for teachers, and I think I would've found the book just as useful if I'd read it when I was still in the classroom.