"Develop a leadership style that inspires an entire school community to achieve high goals!"
In this second volume of "The Soul of Educational Leadership "series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines research, reflective exercises, and day-to-day school leadership procedures for motivating students and providing meaningful cultural change in school communities.An ideal handbook for principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and district administrators, this copublication with AASA and the HOPE Foundation discusses: Developing high-quality leadershipInspiring transformative leadershipEmbracing leadership alternatives Evaluating current school reform practicesMeeting the challenges in leadership roles
"Out-of-the-Box Leadership" is the perfect guide to help administrators rethink, reshape, and strengthen their leadership styles and provide confident, focused direction that will help build real success for students and all members of the school community.
"Develop a leadership style that inspires an entire school community to achieve high goals "
In this second volume of "The Soul of Educational Leadership "series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines research, reflective exercises, and day-to-day school leadership procedures for motivating students and providing meaningful cultural change in school communities.An ideal handbook for principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and district administrators, this copublication with AASA and the HOPE Foundation discusses: Developing high-quality leadershipInspiring transformative leadershipEmbracing leadership alternatives Evaluating current school reform practicesMeeting the challenges in leadership roles
"Out-of-the-Box Leadership" is the perfect guide to help administrators rethink, reshape, and strengthen their leadership styles and provide confident, focused direction that will help build real success for students and all members of the school community.
“"Contributes current and powerful information in a clear and concise format that is much needed for principals and superintendents to function productively in the current educational environment."”
-- Chuck Bonner, Assistant Principal
Paul D. Houston has established himself as one of the leading spokespersons for American education through his extensive speaking engagements, published articles, and his regular appearances on national radio and television. Formerly executive director of the American Association of School Administrators from 1994 to 2008, Houston has served as a teacher and building administrator in North Carolina and New Jersey. He has also served as assistant superintendent in Birmingham, Alabama, and as superintendent of schools in Princeton, NJ; Tucson, AZ; and Riverside, CA. Houston has served in an adjunct capacity for the University of North Carolina, Harvard University, Brigham Young University, and Princeton University. He has served as a consultant and speaker throughout the United States and overseas, and he has published more than 100 articles in professional journals. Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for 25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former "high-risk" youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option (R): Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is Senior Editor, lead contributor, and/or author of 18 books, including Excellence Through Equity with Pedro Noguera, (In Press). He also authored some 20 articles in leading education print including Education Week, Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major U.S. Ed Org, and throughout the UK, Africa, and the Middle East. Alan has served on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, and the Jewish Child Care Agency, where he once was a youth in residence.
Robert W. Cole is proprietor and founder of Edu-Data, a firm specializing in writing, research, and publication services. He was a member of the staff of Phi Delta Kappan magazine for 14 years: assistant editor 1974-1976, managing editor 1976-1980, and editor-in-chief 1981-88. During his tenure as editor-in-chief, the Kappan earned more than 40 Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers, three of them for his editorials.
Since leaving the Kappan, Cole has served as founding vice president of the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform (1990-1994). At CLSR he managed districtwide and communitywide school reform efforts and led the team that created the Kentucky Superintendents' Leadership Institute. He formed the Bluegrass Leadership Network, in which superintendents worked together to use current leadership concepts to solve reform-oriented management and leadership problems.
As senior consultant to the National Reading Styles Institute (1994-2005), Cole served as editor and lead writer of the Power Reading Program. He and a team of writers and illustrators created a series of hundreds of graded short stories, short novels, and comic books from Primer through Grade 10. Those stories were then recorded by Cole and Marie Carbo; they are being used by schools all across the United States to teach struggling readers.
Cole has served as a book development editor for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), for Corwin Press, and for Writer's Edge Press. He has been president of the Educational Press Association of America and member of the EdPress Board of Directors. He has presented workshops, master classes, and lectures at universities nationwide, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Indiana University, Xavier University, Boise State University, and the University of Southern Maine. He has served as a special consultant to college and university deans in working with faculties on writing for professional publication. Recently he began serving as managing editor and senior associate with the Center for Empowered Leadership.
Trotz vielfaltiger Studien uber die Twareg fehlte bisher ein allgemein verwendbares uberregionales Worterbuch, nicht nur zur praktischen Verstandigung sondern auch bei der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Hans Ritter, Tropenmediziner und Ethnologe, legt nun ein solches Werk zu den Hauptdialekten der heute in Algerien, Libyen, Niger, Mali und Burkina Faso lebenden Twareg vor. Aus vieljahriger Kenntnis der Twareg und der Zusammenarbeit mit Sprachwissenschaftlern ist eine lexikalische Dokumentation hervorgegangen, die sich durch eine spezifische Synthese von aktueller Linguistik, Ethnographie und relevanten Daten der Quellenliteratur auszeichnet. Entstanden sind zwei sich funktional erganzende, jedoch prinzipiell eigenstandige Worterbucher mit unterschiedlicher Struktur und Gewichtung, zum einen der grundlegende dreisprachige Band Twareg - Franzosisch - Deutsch, zum anderen das erweiterte zweisprachige Worterbuch Deutsch - Twareg. Zu den Schwerpunkten des Werks gehoren u.a. die botanische und zoologische Nomenklatur, Begriffe der einheimischen Medizin, Heil- und Nutzpflanzen, Handwerksobjekte und Werkstoffe, Nahrungsgewinnung, Salzhandel und Karawanenwirtschaft. Neben den Twaregtermini finden sich zahlreiche verwandte Begriffe aus den wichtigsten Kontaktsprachen Arabisch, Hassaniya, Hausa und Songhay. Sonderkapitel zu Sprache und Schrift, Zahlen, Zeitrechnung, Orientierungssystem, Poesie und Musik, grammatische Darstellungen und Ubersichten in Tabellenform, Diagramme zur Zeitrechnung und Orientierung, eine Ubersichtslandkarte und ausgewahlte Bildtafeln runden das Werk ab. Band 2 bietet einen erweiterten und detailliert ausgearbeiteten Wortschatz mit dialektubergreifenden Eintragen aus allen Haupt- und vielen Nebendialekten, eine Gesamtdarstellung der Twareg-Grammatik und des Verbalsystems (K.-G. Prasse), somit erstmals die lexikalische Gesamtdarstellung des Twareg uberhaupt. Besonderes Augenmerk galt dabei inhaltlichen Erganzungen und verwandten Begriffen aus den Sprachen der Nachbarvolker. Zu den thematischen Schwerpunkten gehoren uber den Allgemeinwortschatz hinaus besonders die Definitionen von Pflanzen und Tieren, Werk- und Nahrungsstoffen, Schmuck und Geratschaften, neben den Begriffen zum Handels- und Wirtschaftsleben, der Zeitrechnung, Orientierung und der Sternnamen, ferner die Schmiede- und ihre Handwerksobjekte, traditionelle Heilmittel und Medizin. Sytematische Quellennachweise und bibliographische Angaben vervollstandigen diese weitgefacherte Sprachdokumentation. Die beiden komplementaren Bande erganzen sich nach Aufbau, Zielrichtung und Informationsgehalt, sind jedoch auch einzeln - je nach Interessenslage - zu benutzen. Band 1 bietet neben der allgemeinen Einfuhrung zur Sprache und Kultur eine einfache Orientierung zur Bedeutung, Dialektzugehorigkeit und Transkription der Twaregbegriffe. Band 2 ermoglicht die vertiefende Beschaftigung mit den Twareg, ihrer Sprache und vielen weiteren Aspekten ihres saharischsahelischen Umfeldes. Beide Bande dienen als Anregung und Leitfaden zugleich.
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