Douglas B. Reeves “The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization"
Jossey-Bass | 2002-11-04 | ISBN: 0787964034 | PDF | 272 pages | 2 Mb
The Daily Disciplines of Leadership is a comprehensive and down-to-earth manual for school leaders that addresses the daunting challenges that today's principals, superintendents, and teacher-leaders face on a daily basis. Written by Douglas Reeves— a leading authority on academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability— the information in this book is based on his extensive experience working with educators, administrators, and school board members from across the country and internationally. Reeves discusses the basic purpose of leadership, presents four key leadership archetypes, and offers practical recommendations for action. Covering a wide range of topics— from accountability systems to personal communications— this book will serve as the 'go to' resource for novice and seasoned school leaders alike
Here is what I know about you. Your time is limited; each day you face competing demands not only for scarce financial resources but also for one of the most important resources of all, the time and attention of leadership. Moreover, your choices are rarely clear-cut
and you must confront the fog of ambiguity regularly. You are weary of the hype and tripe that masquerades as educational policy analysis, and you are intolerant of one more fact-free debate. You know that the worlds of education, business, government, and nonprofit organizatio ns can all contribute wisdom to one another, even while you acknowledge that the challenges of all these sectors differ. Youare frustrated and sometimes angry at the pabulum that passes for
educational research, and you get very, very cranky with the patronizing sophistry of the purveyors of doom as well as with bland reassurances that all is well. You can handle the truth, and you prefer it with unvarnished complexity and ambiguity. You know, in sum, that Einstein was right when he said that things should be made as simple as possible, but not more so.
How can this book help you? You will learn five critical insights that every senior leader and policy maker must have. First, you will learn how to create change even if there is initially no consensus in favor of change. Second, you will create a leadership profile of yourself, using the Leadership and Learning (L2) Matrix. In this way, you systematically analyze the decisions that you and other leaders make so that you focus your energies and those of your organization
on the practices with the greatest impact on success. In this way,
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