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Leadership Through Collaboration: Alternatives to the Hierarchy

Author(s): Koehler, Mike; Baxter, Jeanne C.
ISBN10: 1883001307
ISBN13: 9781883001308
Cover: Hardcover
 
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Table of Contents
About the Authors viii
Foreword ix
The 14 Myths that Influence the Organization and Character of Schools xi
Taking a Close Look at Education's Hierarchy
1(22)
The Origins of the Hierarchy
3(1)
The Paradox of Hierarchies
4(2)
Taking Another Look at Our Origins
6(1)
The Intransigence of Tradition
7(1)
The Need for Rationality
8(1)
Collaboration in its Broadest Sense
9(2)
The Rise of Collegiality
11(2)
Some Representative Programs
13(1)
Bass Elementary School
14(7)
References
21(2)
The Hierarchy's Invisible Organization
23(24)
Education's Invisible Organization
24(3)
What are the Purposes of In-service Training Programs?
27(1)
Who are the Clients of Our Schools?
28(1)
Change is Not an Illusion
29(4)
The College School
33(12)
References
45(2)
The Hierarchy and Teacher Motivation
47(16)
The Farmer and the Seed: A Fable
48(1)
Motivation and Teachers
49(2)
Looking for Problems
51(3)
Self-reflection and the Hierarchy
54(2)
George Westinghouse Vocational High School
56(6)
References
62(1)
Decentralizing Administrative Decisions
63(20)
What are the Implications?
64(3)
The Teacher as Codependent
67(1)
The Search For Status and Teacher Burnout
68(1)
The Contradiction of Caring
68(1)
Old Habits Die Hard
69(2)
The Inner Circle Syndrome
71(1)
Who, Then, is the School's Instructional Leader?
71(2)
Hawthorne Elementary School
73(9)
References
82(1)
Collaboration and the Professional Growth Program
83(30)
The Willingness to Change
84(2)
Five Questions that Characterize Teacher Observation
85(1)
Considering the Answers
85(1)
Distinguishing Between Evaluation and Supervision
86(1)
A Golf Analogy
87(1)
The Need for a Shift of Focus
87(2)
The Process is Simple
89(2)
A Quick Example
90(1)
Theory-Based Practice
91(1)
These Programs are Not for Everyone
92(1)
Integrating In-Service Training Activities
93(2)
When Collegiality Doesn't Work
95(4)
Program Number One
96(3)
Deerfield High School
99(13)
References
112(1)
The Hierarchy and Parent Involvement
113(18)
What are the Responses from School Systems?
115(2)
The Community Connection
117(1)
The Principles of Synergy Revisited
118(1)
Acknowledging and Accommodating Changing Needs
118(1)
Where Does Such Proactive Planning Start?
119(3)
Madison Middle School 2000
122(9)
The School Hierarchy and the Student Body
131(18)
Values Education and Religion
133(3)
What are these Values?
136(1)
The Realities of Student Discipline
136(3)
Taking a Look at External and Internal Discipline
139(1)
The Hierarchy and Student Behavior: The Big Picture
139(3)
Thompson Middle School
142(7)
Collaborative Input into School Policy
149(24)
Theory Revisited
150(1)
Supervision as a Process
151(1)
Supervision Redefined
152(1)
Extending the Redefinition
153(1)
Increasing Synergy in Schools
154(1)
The Collaborative System
155(1)
Patience is the Key
156(4)
Pierce School
160(11)
References
171(2)
Education's Hierarchy and the Need for Change
173(24)
Change Remains an Illusion
174(1)
Education's Natural Resistance to Change
175(1)
Change is Still Needed
175(2)
Change as Reactive or Proactive
177(7)
More About Trends and the Change Process
184(1)
The Elements of Collaborative Planning
185(2)
The Relationship of Hiring to Change
187(3)
Waggoner School
190(7)
Education's Hierarchy: Its Likely Futures
197(14)
Taking Another Look at Education's Trends
199(1)
What is the Future of Education's Hierarchy?
200(2)
Can it Happen?
202(2)
A New Awakening
204(2)
Taking a Look at the Current Literature
206(2)
The Most Likely Future
208(3)
Selected Bibliography 211

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