Staying on Track: An Educational Leader′s Guide to Preventing Derailment and Ensuring Personal and Organizational Success

by Larry D. Coble and Dale L. Brubaker

Book Overview

"This second edition is moving, realistic, and candid. New chapters on how to negotiate accountability pressures and the seasons of an educational leader′s life are excellent. Every would-be and present administrator would benefit from reading this book."
-Seymour B. Sarason, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Yale University

Identify and prevent potential career derailment

School leaders deal with pressures,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412939364
• ISBN13: 9781412939362
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A helpful and practical-minded guide to being the best administrator one can be.

Now in an updated second edition with two new chapters addressing the political realities of the No Child Left Behind Act, Staying On Track: An Educational Leader's Guide to Preventing Derailment and Ensuring Personal and Organizational Success is a guide written especially for educational administrators. Focusing especially upon the most likely threats to derail an educational leader, the potential accountability for high-stakes testing, and the most important skills for improving data-driven decision making, Staying On Track offers advice in plain terms, checklists of key points to remember and implement, and a season-by-season overview of what to expect in the career of educational administrator. A helpful and practical-minded guide to being the best administrator one can be.