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Repositioning educational leadership : practitioners leading from an inquiry stance / James H. Lytle, Susan L. Lytle, Michael C. Johanek, Kathy J. Rho, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The practitioner inquiry seriesPublication details: New York, NY : Teachers College Press, c2018Description: viii, 177 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780807759448 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780807759226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Repositioning educational leadershipDDC classification:
  • 371.2 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2805 .R453 2018
Contents:
Inquiring to lead: learning with, from, and about international students in independent schools / Melinda Bihn -- Language and third spaces / Ann Dealy -- Learning to lead from the middle: students' feedback on feedback / Marti Richmond -- "Leaders can be anyone": students and teachers sharing inquiry / Peter Horn -- Deepening engagement in the everyday: the collective responsibility for seeing all children / Patricia Cruice -- School as a community of inquiry / Noah Tennant -- "Smart like a boy": the experiences of women in an all-boys Jesuit school / Kristin Ross -- Braking and entering: a new chief financial officer's (CFO's) transition into a K-12 urban school district / David Trautenberg -- Using inquiry to drive system change / Amy Maisterra -- Life after the zone / Marquitta Speller -- Our community, our schools, and our money / Stephen Benson.
Summary: "This book will demonstrate that when leaders pose previously unnamed problems, and find ways to bring together working groups of students, principals, central office administrators, school faculties, parents, and/or members of the community for joint inquiry, it is more likely that new, effective solutions can be found through participatory processes of rethinking educational practices, categories, policies, and expectations. The argument is that when school, district, and other educational leaders position themselves as inquirers, their leadership can illuminate and improve many aspects of institutional life and create intellectually demanding and rich learning environments - for both adults and children"--
Item type: Books
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inquiring to lead: learning with, from, and about international students in independent schools / Melinda Bihn -- Language and third spaces / Ann Dealy -- Learning to lead from the middle: students' feedback on feedback / Marti Richmond -- "Leaders can be anyone": students and teachers sharing inquiry / Peter Horn -- Deepening engagement in the everyday: the collective responsibility for seeing all children / Patricia Cruice -- School as a community of inquiry / Noah Tennant -- "Smart like a boy": the experiences of women in an all-boys Jesuit school / Kristin Ross -- Braking and entering: a new chief financial officer's (CFO's) transition into a K-12 urban school district / David Trautenberg -- Using inquiry to drive system change / Amy Maisterra -- Life after the zone / Marquitta Speller -- Our community, our schools, and our money / Stephen Benson.

"This book will demonstrate that when leaders pose previously unnamed problems, and find ways to bring together working groups of students, principals, central office administrators, school faculties, parents, and/or members of the community for joint inquiry, it is more likely that new, effective solutions can be found through participatory processes of rethinking educational practices, categories, policies, and expectations. The argument is that when school, district, and other educational leaders position themselves as inquirers, their leadership can illuminate and improve many aspects of institutional life and create intellectually demanding and rich learning environments - for both adults and children"--