Steffan Silcox, Neil MacNeill

Leading School Renewal

A Guide for Educational Ground Breakers

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Produktbeschreibung

The book explores how school principal leadership behaviour impacts on school change endeavours, and in particular pedagogic renewal, which is a form of educational improvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780367689865
• ISBN-10: 0367689863
• Artikelnr.: 60597041

Autorenporträt

Steffan Silcox has had an eclectic career in education including roles as both a primary and secondary school principal, district superintendent and Director of schools. He was a lecturer and coordinator of Curtin University's education degree practicum programme. Silcox gained his PhD from Curtin University with ground-breaking research in the area of school pedagogic leadership. Neil MacNeill is a high-performing school principal, and has been a school superintendent, principal consultant, and lecturer in university Master of Education courses. A prolific writer, Neil constantly looks for better ways to promote teaching and learning, and he encourages younger teachers to write by offering co-authoring opportunities. Neil is currently a principal of a large primary school in Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 DEFINING CONCEPTS ASSOCIATED WITH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE:
RENEWING SCHOOL RENEWAL
* Differentiating School Renewal from School Reform
* Leadership of School Renewal
* Concluding Remarks on Chapter
CHAPTER 2 SCHOOL LEADER LEADERSHIP AND THE PROCESSES OF LEADING A SCHOOL
RENEWAL AGENDA
* School Renewal
* School Leader Leadership in Framing the School Renewal Agenda
* School Leaders' Behaviours Influencing the Teaching and Learning
Enterprise
* Building a Sense of Cohesion and Team in the School
* Concluding Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 3 SCHOOL LEADER EFFICACY AND CHANGE
* School leader and Teacher Pedagogic Efficacy
* Teachers' Pedagogic Knowledge Bases.
* Student Learning and Teachers' Efficacy.
* Working with Teacher Self-Efficacy Instruments
* Teacher Efficacy and Change
* Putting it all Together: Collective Efficacy
* Concluding Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 4 MORAL LEADERSHIP GUIDING SCHOOL CHANGE AND VISION SETTING
* The Mission and Vision as the Starting Point of Change
* The Purpose Statement and Pedagogy
* The Impact of a School Leader's Personal Motivation and Flow on their
Change Predisposition
* School Leader Leadership and Flow
* The Importance of Moral Leadership in School Vision Setting
* Moral Purpose and Shared Leadership
* What is a Shared Moral Purpose?
* Shared Leadership
* Moral Leadership and Authentic Learning
CHAPTER 5 SYSTEM REFORMS AS CATALYSTS FOR SCHOOL RENEWAL
* The System Reform: Moving Towards Greater Local Empowerment
* Advantages of a Devolved System of Education
* Building Classroom Relationships
* The External Factors Influencing Classroom Culture
* Pedagogy: A Better Way to go
* Supporting Teachers
* The Failure to Recognise that Business Models Provide a Better
Understanding of What is Happening in Some Education Change Models
* The Illusion of Autonomy
CHAPTER 6 SITUATIONAL FACTORS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND
CHANGE
* Barriers to Change
* Staff Resistance
* Staff Union Resistance
* Parents
* System Level Barriers
* Piggy in the Middle (Keep Away)
* Toxic Management: A Culture Devouring Its Future!
* Toxic Management
* Toxic School Culture
* Toxic, Reluctant Managers and Toxic, Self -promoting Managers
* Toxic Culture Survey:
* A Culture of Sycophantocracy is a Barrier to Change Initiatives
* Leaders' Achilles' Heels
* Sycophantocracy in School Systems
* Developing a Field Guide for Identifying the Sycophantocracy
* What to Do
* General Comment on Chapter
CHAPTER 7 PEDAGOGIC LEADERSHIP: A VIEW OF WHAT REAL SCHOOL LEADERS DO.
* Towards an Understanding of Pedagogic Leadership
* Pedagogy and Curriculum
* Pedagogic Obsolescence: School Leaders as the Endangered Species
* The Public Management Movement and its Implications for School
Leadership
* Pedagogic Leadership and Public Management Policy
* Role Discontinuity: Killing School Leaders Softly
* The Way Forward: The School Leader as a Significant and Credible
'Other' in the Work of Teachers
* Staff Resilience and Work Practices
CHAPTER 8 THE "PEDAGOGIC WARS": A CHALLENGE FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
* The "Pedagogic Wars": Deskilling Teachers
* Using a Full Repertoire of Teaching Strategies: Tiger Woods's Golf
Bag
* Audit of Teachers' Pedagogic Skills
* Performance Management is a Conversation with a Purpose.
* Coaching
* Mentoring and Peer Observation
* Pedagogic Profile and Performance Management
* Rationale Behind the Pedagogic Profile
* General Comment on Chapter
CHAPTER 9 DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP IN MODERN SCHOOLING CONTEXTS: DELEGATION
IS NOT DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP.
* Revisiting Distributed Leadership: All Hands to the Lifeboats.
* High Stakes Testing and the Concept of Good in Education
* School Leadership: The Importance of a School Leader's Beliefs
* Distributed Leadership
* One External Education Agency View of School Leadership
* Distributed Leadership and Our Take on it.
CHAPTER 10 SCHOOLS AS LEARNING ORGANISATIONS: GROWING ORGANISATIONAL AND
BUILDING PROFESSIONAL CAPITAL
* Defining a Learning Organisation
* What Learning Organisations Look Like
* Leadership in a Learning Organisation
* Schools as Learning Organisation
* Implementing Practices that Characterise the Learning Organisation at
the School Level
* General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 11 NEW SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: JETTISONING THE COMFORTABLE PRESENT
* The Wild, Non-conformist Characteristics of Entrepreneurial School
Leadership
* Formal Performance Management of the School Leader
* Concluding Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 12 VALUE ADDING AND STUDENT VOICE
* Measuring Value Added
* Assumptions Underpinning Value Adding in Educational Context
* General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 13 PROFILING SCHOOL LEADERS' LEADERSHIP QUALITIES
* Self-Assessment Issues in Profiling Leadership Behaviours
* Profiling Professional Growth Using the Professional Standards for
Educational Leaders
* General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 14 SCHOOL LEADERS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH
* Lessons on Resilience from a Military Context
* The Lessons for Education
* School Leaders Dealing with a Range of Mental Health Issues
Presenting in Schools
* The Growth of Mental Health Problems in Schools
* The American Case of Adam Lanza
* The Australian Case of Martin Bryant
* Systemic Early Identification and Risk Management
* General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 15 'CATALYTIC TEACHERS' AND THE X FACTOR OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
* How Teachers Learn and Accept Changes to their Practice
* Catalytic Teachers and Teacher Leadership
* The Characteristics of a Catalytic Teacher
* Build the Capacity
* Catalytic Teachers and the X Factor of Teaching and Learning
CHAPTER 16 ACCOUNTABILITY AND PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
* The Tightening "Loose Coupling" Relationships of Schools
* Venomous Accountability
* General Comments on Chapter
CHAPTER 17 INTRODUCING THE UNIVERSAL FIVE KEY STEPS TO SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL
RENEWAL: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
* Leadership and Change
* Distributing the Leadership.
* A Vision with a 13-Year Horizon
* Pedagogic Leadership.
* The Accountability Context
* Introducing the Planning for School Renewal
* The Universal Five Phases of Successful Sustainable Change
* The Human Aspect of the Five Phase Change Model
* Sequencing of Planning Development
* Adaptable, Multi-skilled Leadership
CHAPTER 18 CONCLUSION
* Sustainable School renewal - An Ongoing, Continuous Improvement
Orientation
* A Summary of Our Beliefs About Educational Renewal and Change and
School Leaders' Pedagogic Leadership
APPENDIX