Stacking The Deck For You: Navigating the treacherous waters of school district politics - Softcover

Davis, Bruce Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692201211 ISBN 13: 9780692201213

Publisher: Bruce Conrad Davis Educational Publications, 2014

Synopsis

Stacking The Deck For You is an informative, entertaining guide that, using true accounts of actual confrontations, shows you how to out-fox the “bad guys” and keep your integrity intact in the treacherous game of school district politics.
 Bruce Conrad Davis provides insights and tools to succeed in a variety of situations so you will prevail and be the successful principal you were meant to be. It’s a battle plan of “good politics” where courage wins the day. Courage can and must be rehearsed.

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About the Author

Bruce Conrad Davis was a principal in the Garvey School District in Rosemead,California. Under his leadership, Emerson School received the California Distinguished School award. In 1995 Davis was chosen unanimously as a Reader’s Digest Hero in Education.That year the ASCD produced an award winning video entitled Multicultural Education, profiling some of his innovative work. He has been a speaker on educational topics for the ASCD, the NESPA, the California Association of Bilingual Education and the Los Angeles County Office of Education. He taught as an adjunct professor for Pepperdine and California Lutheran Universities. At California Lutheran he taught school governance at the graduate level. He has written for and served on the editorial advisory boards of Instructor,Educational Leadership and The Sun newspapers. A prolific writer for magazines,television and radio,his book, How To Involve Parents in a Multicultural School was a best seller for the ASCD. How to Involve Parents in a Multicultural School provides award-winning strategies that have been praised nationally and internationally. He grew up on a cattle ranch in western South Dakota,knows how to ride and rope and loves gypsy and straight ahead jazz. He loves to read, primarily non-fiction, and travel with his wife. You may contact Bruce Davis at his website,www.brucecdavis.net or look him up on Facebook as brucecdavis.net.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bruce Conrad Davis Educational Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692201211
• ISBN 13: 9780692201213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122