Background Information
Educational Leaders [experience] tensions between competing elements of leadership, management, and administration. Leaders experience difficulty in deciding the balance between higher-order tasks designed to improve staff, student, and performance (leadership), routine maintenance of present operations (management), and lower-order duties (administration). --Dimmock (1999)
Additional Resources
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Chronicle of Higher EducationPublished every weekday and provides the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.
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Education WeekProvides K-12 education news and analysis, blogs, reports & data, events, video gallery, and jobs in education. Digital edition of Education Week is also available.
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Leading Your School Toward Equity
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ISBN: 9781416631385Publication Date: 2022-08-29A four-step process for effective equity practices in schools, with an array of professional development activities, leadership tips, and downloadable tools. -
Self-Organised Schools : Educational Leadership and Innovative Learning Environments
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ISBN: 9781003228264Publication Date: 2022-08-29Self-Organised Schools: Educational Leadership and Innovative Learning Environments describes the results of the research we carried out at fourteen Italian schools that highlight how there is a positive correlation between the capabilities of school self-organization and the innovativeness of learning environments: in other words, the more self-organized schools are, the more innovative learning environments are. -
The Greenwood Dictionary of Education
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Call Number: Reference: LB15 .G68 2003ISBN: 9780897748605Publication Date: 2003-11-30The first of its kind since the 1980s, this book provides authoritative definitions for more than 2,600 terms that apply to educational research, practice, and theory. The overall focus is on the most critical terms in education as used by current practitioners, yet references to significant historical events in education are also included.
