What Matters Most for School Leaders : 25 Reminders of What Is Really Important.
A primer of what is truly important for today's school leaders, this survival guide is made up of 25 fundamental insights and baseline beliefs that never change.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2004.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
ISBN: | 9781412904513 141290451X |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: Why This Book? Why Now?
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction: Some Things Never Change
- Chapter 1
- What You Do is Special
- Chapter 2
- Primero Los Ninos: Children First
- Chapter 3
- There are No Throwaway Kids
- Chapter 4
- Strong Schools Make a Strong Nation
- Chapter 5
- Schools are Sacred Places of Hope
- Chapter 6
- Teaching is the Greatest Profession
- Chapter 7
- Passion is the Engine That Drives School Leadership
- Chapter 8
- What Matters Most Costs the Least
- Chapter 9
- Schools are Only as Strong as the Community Allows
- Chapter 10
- When it's Your Own Kid, it's Different
- Chapter 11
- That Pesky Golden Rule Still Works
- Chapter 12
- Someone Has to be the Grown-up
- Chapter 13
- Good Leaders Learn to "K.I.S.S." and Enjoy the Happiness of Subtraction
- Chapter 14
- You can't have too Much Integrity
- Chapter 15
- Common Sense is Better than a College Degree: The Grandma Test
- Chapter 16
- Sometimes Kids Need Candy More Than Milk
- Chapter 17
- A Chicken Doesn't Stop Scratching Just Because Worms are Scarce
- Chapter 18
- The Reverse Side has a Reverse Side
- Chapter 19
- The Best Leader is a "Servant Leader"
- Chapter 20
- Your Mother Didn't Raise You to be a Bureaucrat
- Chapter 21
- Politicians and Armchair Quarterbacks Don't Get it-So You Have to
- Chapter 22
- If You're Not Having Fun, You're Doing it Wrong
- Chapter 23
- Things are Never as Bad as You Think They are
- and You're Braver, Stronger, and Smarter than You Imagine
- Chapter 24
- You Work to Live, Not Live to Work
- Chapter 25
- It's Worth it!
- A Final Word: The Ouija Board Effect
- Resource A: What Others Say about What Matters Most (in School and in Life)
- Resource B: Other Books about What Matters Most.
- Resource C: Other Lasting Truths That Couldn't be Squeezed Into This Little Book
- Index.