The Instructional Leadership Toolbox: A Handbook for Improving Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412975409 ISBN 13: 9781412975407

Publisher: Corwin, 2009

Synopsis

Use these powerful leadership tools to build teamwork and improve instruction!

Every school leader needs a toolbox of strategies for improving teaching and learning. This second edition examines the role of principals in leading instruction and provides practical tools for leaders to reflect on and improve their practice. Emphasizing the importance of empowering others and building effective teams, this resource offers:

• Updated standards from NAESP and ISLLC
• New research that shows how a principal’s actions can affect student achievement
• Questions for reflective practice
• Quotes and strategies by practicing principals and veteran educators
• Additional resources such as Web sites, workbooks, and articles

About this title

About the Author

Sandra Lee Gupton, EdD, is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, where she has been serving for the past six years as Chairperson of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Before coming to UNF, she was Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Southern Mississippi for eleven years. Her experiences before coming to higher education include more than twenty years in various positions in PreK–12 public schools, including English and reading teacher, high school principal, director of instruction, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, and superintendent in Georgia and North Carolina schools.

Sandra’s professional interests are centered on leadership issues related to PreK–12 and higher education leadership effectiveness, gender equity, program reform, and school improvement. Her early research on gender equity in educational leadership led to many presentations, the publication of several articles, and the 1996 Corwin publication Highly Successful Women Administrators: The Inside Stories of How They Got There, offering advice to prospective women administrators in education. Her research and writing in recent years have been focused on the role of academic chairpersons and leadership in higher education.

Review

"Provides a solid base to understand the many hats that must be worn to provide for all facets of a school setting. I applaud Gupton’s focus on the learner. This is the most important tenet for a school administrator’s decision making. Each chapter describes a portion of school leadership that the successful principal needs to master." Author: Sharon Madsen Redfern, Principal Published On: 2009-06-11

"This is a text for curriculum leaders who prize learning in themselves and others. Sandra Gupton′s love of learning and ability to frame issues are evident in each chapter with the instructional toolbox metaphor graphically holding the reader′s attention each step of the way." Author: Dale Brubaker, Professor of Education Published On: 2010-06-17

"I really really liked the book. In fact, I am going to suggest this book to be read as a bookshare for the 52 principals in our district." Author: Barbara Gerard, Secretary Published On: 2009-06-11

"Highly Recommended. This is a book that administrators should read and keep on their bookshelf." Author: Kathy Zachel Published On: 2011-10-13

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412975409
• ISBN 13: 9781412975407
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Gupton Sandra L.