A Commonsense Approach to Educational Leadership: Lessons from the Founders - Softcover

Palestini, Robert

 
9781610487481: A Commonsense Approach to Educational Leadership: Lessons from the Founders

Synopsis

Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful and how those attributes can be applied to one’s own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal, or a superintendent of schools.

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About the Author

Robert Palestini is dean emeritus and professor of educational leadership at Saint Joseph’s University (SJU) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also the founding executive director of the Educational Leadership Institute and Center for Catholic Urban Education at SJU. In addition, with almost fifty years in the field of education, he has been a science teacher, principal, and superintendent of schools.

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ISBN 10:  1610487478 ISBN 13:  9781610487474
Publisher: R&L Education, 2012
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