Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Education: Theory Into Practice - Hardcover

Owings, William; Kaplan, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137050445 ISBN 13: 9780137050444

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

&>Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Education puts theory into practice in a readable, teachable, relevant, and timely look at actual leadership behaviors through numerous case studies and personal experiences. Readers get a firm understanding of the information and how to relate it to their own personal experiences or transfer it to new situations.

The author addresses a number of “hot topics” in leadership and describes how to apply the concepts in actual work settings, now or in the future...

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Designed for aspiring school leaders, administrators, and supervisors, Leadership and Organizational Behavior: Theory into Practice presents an overview of the principles of school leadership, as well as specific theories behind organizational behavior key to courses in Supervision and Instructional Leadership. Theories are presented and applied using a set of pedagogical features that inspire critical thinking, evaluation, and comprehension and lead to informed practice on the part of all learners.

 

Key Features include:

· ISLLC Standards alignment in each chapter, and an easy-to-access rubric that locates each standard, found on the inside front cover.

· A Principal Quality Rubric, unique to this book, that rates acquired skills of aspiring principals against the ISLLC Standards.

· A detailed case study beginning each chapter that illustrates key concepts in practice.

· Synthesis of relevant research and literature that directs understanding of history and theory towards applied practice.

· A clear and comprehensive writing style that appeals to instructors and students of all levels.

 

Leadership and Organizational Behavior: Theory into Practice is an ideal resource for aspiring school leaders who wish to innovate, educate, and make a difference.

About the Author:

William A. Owings, Ed.D. has been an elementary and high school principal, assistant superintendent and school district superintendent and is currently a professor of educational leadership and graduate program director at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.  Together with his co-author, Leslie S. Kaplan, Owings has published texts including American Public School Finance (2006, Cengage), Best Practices, Best Thinking, and Emerging Issues in School Leadership, (2003, Corwin) as well as numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals including NASSP Bulletin, Journal of School Leadership, Journal of Education Finance, Teachers College Record, and Phi Delta Kappan. Professor Owings is editor of the Journal for Effective Schools and also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Education Finance. A frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, he is a past-president of the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and served 20 years on the national ASCD Board of Directors. Owings and Kaplan were jointly awarded the 2008 Charles Edgar Clear Research Award from the Virginia Educational Research Association for “Consistent and Substantial Contributions to Educational Research and Scholarship.”

 

Leslie S, Kaplan, Ed.D. is a retired secondary school and central office administrator who currently researches and writes on educational issues full-time. She has been a successful school counselor as well as a central office and school administrator. Together with her co-author, William A. Owings, Kaplan has published books including American Education: Building a Common Foundation (Cengage, 2011), Effective Schools Movement: History, Analysis, and Application (2008, Intermont Center for Education Effectiveness), and Teacher Quality, Teaching Quality, and School Improvement (2002, Phi Delta Kappan). Her education writings, often with Owings, frequently appear as book chapters and in refereed professional journals. Leslie Kaplan is co-editor of the Journal for Effective Schools and serves on the editorial board for the NASSP Bulletin.  She is a past-president of the Virginia Counselors Association and the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0137050445
• ISBN 13: 9780137050444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576