Essential Lessons for School Leaders - Softcover

Murphy, Joseph F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452203245 ISBN 13: 9781452203249

Publisher: Corwin, 2011

Synopsis

Keep these heartfelt gems top of mind

This gold mine of wisdom from top education researcher and the best-selling author of Turning Around Failing Schools andConnecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement contains key tips and strategies every school leader should know. Award-winning professor and former school administrator Joseph Murphy’s concise and instructive lessons will help you stay focused on what matters most as you navigate the hectic world of high-stakes testing and accountability, for example:

 

• It really is all about the kids
• Optimism is essential
• Caring counts a lot
• Listen―let people finish talking
• Don’t confuse excuses and explanations

About this title

About the Author

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.

In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.

He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).

His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.

Review

"I found Murphy’s book to be one of the best and most practical sources of wisdom on leadership I have ever read.” Author: Tom Burnham, State Superintendent of Education Published On: 2011-03-08

“Murphy has distilled and perceptively packaged a career′s worth of insight, experience, and analysis into a set of productive guidelines for organizational and personal excellence" Author: James W. Guthrie, Senior Fellow and Director of Education Policy Studies Published On: 2011-03-08

“This is a unique and wonderful book, riddled with marvelous insights and full of uncommon wisdom. Murphy drills straight to the core of great leadership” Author: Terry B. Grier, Superintendent of Schools Published On: 2011-03-08

“This publication includes a variety of thought-provoking insights, in the form of short quotes and explanations, to guide school leadership practices. The topics selected are current and appropriate for education leaders in the 21st Century! The examples are easy to read, relevant, and would be useful for school or district-level administrators. The book could also be a useful tool to generate discussion among aspiring or practicing educational leaders." Author: Gayle M. Cicero, Coordinator of School Counseling Published On: 2011-04-06

... gems of wisdom drawn from a master who has both practiced and studied leadership. The positive version of Murphy’s Law! Read five lessons a day and you’ll be a better leader in less than a month.

Author: Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus and Author Published On: 2011-04-07

Joe Murphy′s latest book is another masterful compilation of common sense, research knowledge, and leadership wisdom. This book takes the mystery out of sound and effective educational leadership and communicates its salient precepts in a down-to-earth, practical manner that not only imbues a leader with much-needed guidance, but greatly enhances one’s opportunity for success as well. The book’s organization reflects a clever, relevant, and elegant structure that is enjoyable to follow and hard to put down.

Murphy’s Essential Lessons for School Leaders is one of those unusually uncomplicated, powerful, straightforward, and authentic books that any sensible school administrator looking for what really works in school leadership needs to have on their personal library shelf.

Author: William K Poston Jr., Professor Emeritus Published On: 2011-04-08

"Those of us who know Joe Murphy as a national colleague will be surprised, delighted, amused, and poked into re-thinking our own leadership experiences in schools and colleges. I’m glad Joe shared his wisdom with the rest of us. These practical and pithy little “nuggets” of life, learning, and leadership are the real ISLLC standards."

Author: Fenwick W. English, R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership Published On: 2011-04-13

"Essential Lessons for School Leaders includes 140 brief vignettes, each one exploring a differing leadership topic. Emotion is 60% of what attracts people to a product. From the first essay forward, Joe Murphy seizes the reader’s heart and mind with riveting themes."

Author: Richard Sorenson, Associate Professor Published On: 2011-04-13

"Joseph Murphy has distilled his life experiences into this collection of lessons that cover a broad range of topics from details of professional practice to larger philosophical perspectives on school leadership. The lessons are entertaining, thoughtful, and pragmatic enough that rookie school administrators as well as seasoned veterans will find something valuable for their professional growth."

Author: Daniel J. Gutchewsky, Associate Principal Published On: 2011-04-19

"This book captures all the lessons I have learned about educational leadership over the years in a simple and clear way. I have a principal on an improvement plan now and it could have been written from this book. This truly helps me know I am on the right track." Author: Christopher Shaffer, Director, High School Campus Published On: 2011-04-22

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1452203245
• ISBN 13: 9781452203249
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160