Focused Leadership How to Improve Student

These days, you can get cookie-cutter-style reform books just about anywhere. But your school district is unique and needs specific strategies that affect your students and fit your mission and goals. Focused Leadership is a guidebook that your school system can use to improve student achievement'¬ ;not by sweeping changes that don't stick, but by adapting the traditional roles of people involved in operating schools. From this book you can build a systemic, need-specific approach that is a collaborative effort between school board, administration and teaching staff. Castallo provides specific examples, descriptions of leadership roles and real-life examples of three important principles: honest assessment of student performance, systems building, and ongoing collaboration.

Richard T. Castallo is Professor of Education at SUNY Cortland as well as coordinator of their Educational Administration Program.

Foreword	p. vii
Are We Getting the Results We Want?	p. 1
The Frustrations of Teachers	p. 3
The Frustrations of Administrators	p. 4
The Frustrations of School Board Members	p. 5
Changing Roles	p. 6
Focused Leadership	p. 7
Principles of Focused Leadership	p. 10
The Role of the Board of Education	p. 13
Three Approaches to Involving the Board in Setting Goals	p. 14
Preparing to Set Goals	p. 17
Recognizing Positive Results	p. 22
The Board of Education and Goal Setting--Subsequent Years	p. 23
The Board of Education and Reviewing Results	p. 26
Planning Cycle	p. 28
Goal Monitoring	p. 30
The Board and Policy Development	p. 33
Providing Funding	p. 34
Public Relations	p. 36
Summary	p. 37
The Role of Central Administration	p. 39
Mission Scan	p. 40
Personnel Systems	p. 43
Evaluation Systems	p. 44
Modeling	p. 47
Reviewing Goals	p. 51
The Role of the Assistant Superintendent	p. 53
Program Management Cycle	p. 54
Summary	p. 56
The Role of Building Leadership	p. 57
Goal Setting at the Local Level	p. 58
Data: Teacher by Teacher	p. 61
Instructional Delivery	p. 68
Working within the Standards-Based Curriculum	p. 73
Summary	p. 78
Getting Started	p. 81
First Steps	p. 81
Options for Meetings	p. 82
Setting Goals	p. 83
Making Goals Public	p. 84
Implementing	p. 85
Immediate Actions	p. 86
Long-Term Actions	p. 86
The Small Picture	p. 88
The Big Picture	p. 93
Summary	p. 94
About the Author	p. 97
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