Research Catalog

Title

Better principals, better schools : what star principals know, believe, and do / edited by Delia Stafford, the Haberman Educational Foundation, Inc., Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A & M University.

Publication

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stafford, Delia
• Hill-Jackson, Valerie, 1969-

Description

xviii, 86 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A school is only as good as its principal. This quip forms the thesis of Better Principals, Better Schools as it provides a bird's eye view on the enactment of Haberman's eleven core functions of a star principal. Better Principals, Better Schools is imperative for two main reasons. First, the achievement gap between 20 million children in poverty and their mainstream counterparts is continuing to become even wider. Many students are constantly subjected to inequality of educational opportunity, which limits their future opportunities. Second, Haberman is one of the most prolific producers of administrators of the twentieth century (and into the twenty-first century). He reminds us that quality school systems, with quality leaders, benefit our society. Haberman explained that there is often selection blindness when it comes to identifying school leaders, and this deficiency has many negative consequences for education in general, and learners in particular. Haberman has generated theories, training programs and tools to engender substantive changes needed to produce better schools. Each chapter in this volume contains reflection questions for discussion to remind us all why selecting quality principals must be paramount when hiring school leaders. These illustrative book chapters emphasize the execution of Haberman's star principal ideology. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Urban education study series

Subject

• School principals > United States
• Educational leadership > United States
• Educational equalization > United States
• Urban poor > Education > United States > Case studies
• African Americans > Education > 21st century
• African American school principals
• Educational equalization
• Educational leadership
• School principals
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Principal Netzer and the tale of two urban high schools / Gus Jacob and Jennifer Waddell -- No principal left behind? The core beliefs of nine urban elementary principals in a Midwest school district implementing No Child Left Behind / Rodney E. Watson and Valerie Hill-Jackson -- The other side of the desk: The beliefs and behaviors of star principals at turnaround schools / Jim Robins -- Staffing urban principals in an era of hyper-reform: A case from "The port of good things" / Myra I. Whitney and Beverly E. Cross -- The case for selecting better principals / Valerie Hill-Jackson and Delia Stafford.

Call Number

Sc E 18-555

ISBN

• 9781681233642
• 1681233649
• 9781681233659
• 1681233657

LCCN

2015042709

OCLC

927619790

Title

Better principals, better schools : what star principals know, believe, and do / edited by Delia Stafford, the Haberman Educational Foundation, Inc., Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A & M University.

Publisher

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Urban education study series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

CO-EDITOR: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY. TEXTBOOK--GRAD.

Added Author

Stafford, Delia, editor.

Hill-Jackson, Valerie, 1969- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-555