Leading From Below the Surface: A Non-Traditional Approach to School Leadership [Paperback]

Deepen your success with a new, reality-driven model for leadership that tailors corporate management know-how for the classroom and beyond.

Deepen your success with a new, reality-driven model for leadership that tailors corporate management know-how for the classroom and beyond.

Creighton gets leaders to look further and more deeply at what is going on within an organization. He clearly demonstrates that looking below the surface at motivations, struggles, and challenges is imperative. Preface
What This Book Is Not About
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Introduction
First, What Is the Surface?
OK, Now What Does Below the Surface Mean?
Leadership Is Both Objective and Subjective
2. What Does Traditional Leadership Look Like, and
How Did We Get Here from There?
Behavioral Leadership
Situational Leadership
Contingency Leadership Theory
Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
Transformational Leadership Theory
A Conceptual Framework for Leading From Below the Surface
3. What Is Leading From Below the Surface?
Bending the Rules Without Breaking Them
Managing Your Portfolio of Political Capital
Bourdieu and Capital
4. Evidence-Based Decision Making
Below the Surface: Data- or Evidence-Based?
Data-Driven vs. Evidence-Based Decision Making
Attendance Rates vs. Absence Rates
Narrowing the Achievement Gap
Dropout Rate: 2% or 28%?
Concluding Thoughts
5. Institutional Effectiveness vs. Strategy
A Closer Look at Strategy
How Does Strategy Relate to School Leadership?
Describing the Strategy
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