A Casebook for School Leaders: Linking the ISLLC Standards to Effective Practice
For those pursuing a career in educational administration the third edition of this text offers a unique opportunity to engage in case analysis. Introducing 44 cases that represent real-life situations in today’s schools readers are provided with a case analysis framework to use as a tool for analyzing the cases and resolving problem(s) presented in each case.\ New to this Edition:\ \ Developing Your Leadership Expertise activities provide readers with the opportunity to practice applying...
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Practical and highly applicable, the third edition of A Casebook for School Leaders offers those pursuing a career in educational administration the opportunity learn a uniform framework for analyzing and resolving a large variety of school cases. This book examines 44 cases that represent real-life situations in today’s schools, with issues and topics ranging from the separation of church and state, personal leadership development, the No Child Left Behind Act, fundraising, and leadership attributes. Each case is fully explored keeping in mind the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards and how these standards can be applied effectively in practice.The book also includes an ISLLC matrix on the inside cover that correlates the subject matter covered in each case with the ISLLC standards.The revised third edition includes a new end-of-chapter activity called “Developing Your Leadership Expertise,” which provides readers with the opportunity to practice applying what they’ve just read to the ISLLC standards; five new cases that address issues not covered in previous editions; and a revised “Questions to Research and Consider” feature, which now includes higher-order thinking questions and inquiry-based activities.
INTRODUCTIONThe Context The Cases The Purpose Hanson's Case Analysis FrameworkCASE 1: Is There a Nurse in the House?CASE 2: Out of Africa, A Child is BornCASE 3: Can't We Work This Out?CASE 4: Mistake in IdentityCASE 5: The Cost of No Child Left BehindCASE 6: An Unwise DecisionCASE 7: Lice Aren't Nice: Parents Can Be WorseCASE 8: Golden OldiesCASE 9: Voucher as the Voice of the PeopleCASE 10: To Be or Not to Be the SubstituteCASE 11: Mrs. Bumble and her Band of BusybodiesCASE 12: Caught in the WebCASE 13: The Bible and Mrs. WrightCASE 14: Tolerance Test for RanchoCASE 15: Cultural Clash and Curriculum ChaosCASE 16: Reclaiming Rose PlaceCASE 17: May the Best Clerk WinCASE 18: No Matter Why, It Isn't WorkingCASE 19: The Parent Who Ran Away with the ChildCASE 20: An Educational Leader's LegacyCASE 21: When Students Take Matters into Their Own HandsCASE 22: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong TimeCASE 23: The Best of Friends at the Worst of TimesCASE 24: From Rookie to RealityCASE 25: To Brian, In His MemoryCASE 26: The GatekeeperCASE 27: A Question of BalanceCASE 28: Got Lunch?CASE 29: When Diplomacy FailsCASE 30: The Custodian from HellCASE 31: The Hip Club Ain't HappeningCASE 32: Measuring Success Meets the PressCASE 33: Before You Go, There Is One More Thing You Need to KnowCASE 34: When East Meets WestCASE 35: Quick to AccuseCASE 36: To Keep or Not to Keep SamanthaCASE 37: The Budget DebacleCASE 38: When A Student's Rights Are WrongedCASE 39: A Time to ReflectCASE 40: Here Today and Gone TomorrowCASE 41: There's a New Gal in TownCASE 42: One Bill, One BudgetCASE 43: Whose Problem Is It Anyway?CASE 44: A Slip on Candy, Not too DancySUGGESTED READINGSINDEX
