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Focused Leadership
Castallo, Richard T.; Houston, Paul D.
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Description for Focused Leadership
Paperback. Designed to be used in school systems, this guidebook seeks to improve student achievement by presenting methods to adapt the traditional roles of people involved in operating schools. The book demonstrates how a systemic, need-specific approach can be built. Num Pages: 104 pages, tables, line drawings. BIC Classification: JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
These days, you can get cookie-cutter-style reform books just about anywhere. But your school district is unique and needs specific strategies that affect your students and fit your mission and goals. Focused Leadership is a guidebook that your school system can use to improve student achievement—not by sweeping changes that don't stick, but by adapting the traditional roles of people involved in operating schools. From this book you can build a systemic, need-specific approach that is a collaborative effort between school board, administration and teaching staff. Castallo provides specific examples, descriptions of leadership roles and real-life examples of three important ... Read more
These days, you can get cookie-cutter-style reform books just about anywhere. But your school district is unique and needs specific strategies that affect your students and fit your mission and goals. Focused Leadership is a guidebook that your school system can use to improve student achievement—not by sweeping changes that don't stick, but by adapting the traditional roles of people involved in operating schools. From this book you can build a systemic, need-specific approach that is a collaborative effort between school board, administration and teaching staff. Castallo provides specific examples, descriptions of leadership roles and real-life examples of three important ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9780810840638
SKU
V9780810840638
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Ref
99-15
About Castallo, Richard T.; Houston, Paul D.
Richard T. Castallo is chair of the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department at Cal State Northridge. He has spoken at hundreds of board of education and administrator retreats.
Reviews for Focused Leadership
[Castallo's] book provides some practical ideas on how to bring each responsible party to a sharp focus on getting results in student achievement...written from the perspective of someone who has spent time in the schools trying to improve student achievement.
School Administrator
School Administrator