Healthy Schools: The Hidden Component of Teaching and Learning (Paperback or Softback)

Gimbel, Phyllis A.

ISBN 10: 147580427X / ISBN 13: 9781475804270

Published by R & L Education 10/17/2013, 2013

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Healthy Schools: The Hidden Component of Teaching and Learning.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Healthy Schools: The Hidden Component of Teaching and Learning (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: R & L Education 10/17/2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147580427X
• ISBN 13: 9781475804270
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.6 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Creating conditions for better teaching and learning to occur has become an important responsibility for today’s school leaders. Principals must attend to building and sustaining healthy school cultures.
The authors take the reader on a journey through several different situations that occur at the elementary, middle and high school levels and focus on a different and challenging aspect of educational leadership every time. The reader can read and analyze different scenarios and decide whether or not the outcome was the best for all stakeholders involved. Not only do all of the vignettes offer beneficial advice to educational leaders of all levels and experience, but they also provide research that demonstrates how and why each educational leader does what he or she does in each situation and how those choices affect everyone involved.
We believe that these vignettes support the most important quality of school leadership: “Promoting the success of every student by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth” (ISLLC Standard 2.0, 2008).

About the Authors

Phyllis A. Gimbel, EdD, is professor of educational leadership at Bridgewater State University, where she has published and presented on mentoring new school leaders, faculty development, and school leadership. Her books focus on establishing principal-teacher trust, building a positive school culture, and the importance of mentoring new school administrators.

Lenesa Leana has been a teacher, counselor, administrator, principal, head of school, and trustee. She has studied the multiple factors that contribute to the growth of healthy school cultures. Her background in developmental psychology provides an important perspective on her observations of school communities, always with an eye toward what is good for the students.