School Leadership and Administration: Important Concepts, Case Studies, and Simulations

by Richard A. Gorton, Petra E. Snowden, Richard Gorton

Book Overview

The text is designed to help prospective and experienced principals, administrators and supervisors increase their knowledge and skills through concepts, case-studies, and simulations. Two parts makeup this text. Part I presents important theoretical concepts and research findings that if adequately understood and appropriately applied can improve educators' problem solving and leadership effectiveness. Problems and issues illustrated in case studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0697241432
• ISBN13: 9780697241436
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 325 Pages

Customer Reviews

Good book for beginning leaders

Cases studies in the book are good. Gives readers an excellant understanding of what can happen without good leadership in a school and how it can affect the learning environment.

Just like New

I ordered the book and it was shipped promptly. It is like new condition. Thanks!

very interesting

was a book i had to buy for a class and was pretty expensive. with that said--its defintely one i will always keep and reference later. i wish my principal had a copy.

School Leadership 101

I am using this book for a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction. The writing is very straight forward and easy to understand. It talks about several models of leadership and how those concepts apply to Educational Administration. Each week, my class is reviewing the case studies in the book- which is interesting. They give the vignette, and ask the reader how they would solve the conflict of issue, as a leader.

Finally, the case method applied to education

This is easily one of the most thought-provoking books on education that I've had the pleasure of reading. The first half is a general exploration of leadership in the school setting, but the second half is where the book truly shines--60 different case study activities that present real-world situations that appear in the course of the school day and challenge you to solve them. I learned a lot about my leadership style and what I needed to know to become a better leader by reading through them; I think it'd be an invaluable resource for anyone in the principalship. Highest recommendations!