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| Preface | |
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| Planning for Change: Understanding Strategic Leadership | |
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| The Evolving Context of Leadership: What Strategic Leadership is and Why it is Needed Now | |
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| Looking Back: A Historical Note | |
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| Evolving Contextual Details | |
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| Strategic Leadership: What it is and Why it is Now Needed | |
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| What a Strategic Leader is Not | |
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| Strategic Leadership in an Organizational Context | |
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| Theoretical Views of Organizations and their Import for a Strategic Leader | |
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| Leadership Theories and Styles | |
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| The Idea of Strategic Leadership | |
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| Combining Appraisal and Action | |
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| Planning Operational Details | |
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| What is Strategic Planning? | |
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| Impact of Politics on Goal Setting and Strategic Planning | |
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| Key Considerations in the Planning Process | |
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| Politics: Policy Knowledge Needed By Strategic Leaders | |
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| Governance | |
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| The Seemingly Seamless Spectrum of Schooling Stakeholders | |
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| Scale and Scope of U.S. Schooling | |
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| Constitutional Underpinnings of Education's Complexity and Diversity | |
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| Informal Centralization | |
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| Structure of States for Governing Education | |
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| General Government and Education | |
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| Politics and Education Policy Issues | |
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| Illustrating How Policy Matters for Education Leaders | |
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| Explaining the Formation of Policy | |
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| Policy, Public Policy, Education Policy, and a Policy System Paradigm | |
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| Cultures of Policy | |
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| Inside the "Modern" Education Reform Policy Paradigm | |
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| Finance | |
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| Providing Strategic Leaders with the Finance Knowledge they Need | |
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| Education Finance Operational Magnitude | |
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| Generating and Distributing State and Federal Education Revenues | |
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| Allocating Resources Productively in and Education Organization | |
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| What is Wrong with this (Financial) Picture? | |
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| Possible Explanations for the Financial Accounting Status QUO | |
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| So What if Things were Different? | |
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| Likely Future Context of Education Finance | |
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| Law | |
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| Conventions, Constitutions, Cases, Courtrooms, and Classrooms | |
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| Protecting (and Sometimes Restricting) Students Rights | |
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| Protecting (and Sometimes Restricting) Employee Rights | |
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| Performance: What a Strategic Leader Needs to Know Regarding Knowing | |
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| Learning | |
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| Importance of Instructional Time | |
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| Significance of Specifying What is to be Learned | |
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| Instructional Program Alignment | |
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| Learning Theories | |
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| Dimensions of Knowledge | |
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| Implication of Brain-Based Learning Theory and Cognitive Science For Learning Environments | |
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| What do we Expect Student to be Able to do with What they Learn? | |
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| How Should Students be Motivated to Learn? | |
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| What is the Role of the Teacher in the Learning Process? | |
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| Cultural Diversity and Instructional Environments | |
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| Programs | |
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| Forces Influencing School Programs in the United States | |
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| Perspectives on Assessing the Quality and Alignment of State standards | |
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| Approaches to Enhancing School Programs | |
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| Intersection of K-12 Programs and Postsecondary Education | |
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| Performance | |
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| Assessing the Performance of Students | |
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| Assessment of Leadership Performance | |
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| Assessing School Performance | |
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| Value-Added Performance Measures | |
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| National and International Assessments of Education Performance | |
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| Data-Based Decision Making | |
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| Strategic Approaches to Decision Making in Education | |
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| Systematic Collection and Use of School Data | |
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| Analyzing Data Integral to School Effectiveness | |
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| Analyzing Data Integral to School Efficiency | |
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| Power: The Application of Strategic Leadership | |
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| Power: Decision Making and Implementation | |
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| Important Definitions and Distinctions | |
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| People | |
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| People and School Success | |
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| Profiling America's Educators | |
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| Compensating America's Educators | |
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| Compensation Reform Possibilities | |
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| Selecting Teachers, Administrators, and Others | |
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| Professional Development | |
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| Teacher Evaluation | |
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| Partnering Schools with parents and Communities | |
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| Theoretical and Empirical Research Considerations | |
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| Strategically Linking Family and Community to Student Performance | |
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| Practical Considerations in Linking Schools to Their Communities | |
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| Collecting Data on Community Involvement | |
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| Developing Strategic Community Partnerships | |
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| Practicing Strategic Leadership | |
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| Shaping One's Leadership Style | |
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| Constructing Professional Philosophies | |
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| Setting Performance Priorities | |
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| Communicating Purposes, Creating Impressions, Confronting Conflict | |
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| Leader Ethics and Consistent Behavior | |
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| Unsung Significance of Predictable Leader Behavior | |
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| Preparing to be a Strategic Education Leader | |
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| Positive Trajectory of Education Leadership as a Profession | |
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| Multiple Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Education Leadership | |
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| The Path of Leadership is Evolving | |
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| Great Demand for Leaders, and New Leaders, in Education | |
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| Leading, Learning, and Implementing Policy: The New Professional Practitioner Paradigm | |
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| Career Preparation Changes Necessitated by Strategic Leadership | |
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| Educational Leader Remuneration | |
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| Paths to Professional Leadership Positions | |
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| Appendix Significant Education Finance Court Decisions | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |