Leading Schools During Crisis: What School Administrators Must Know

This volume uses twelve cases to present leadership skills for school leaders, superintendents, and board members to prevent, get through, and recover from crises. The authors synthesize and apply crisis research in the American school context, with a theoretical framework overlaid onto case studies that follow past and present school leaders in crises such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, school shootings, grade fraud, teacher turnover, accountability, funding, and rezoning, and how they handled them. Pepper (National Center on Performance Incentives, Peabody College) works in research and data quality at Metro-Nashville Public Schools. London and Dishman, a school attorney, work in educational leadership at Queen's U. Belfast, Ireland, and Kennesaw State U., respectively. Lewis researches at the National Center on Performance Incentives. There is no index. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Matthew J. Pepper is coordinator of research and data quality for the Metro-Nashville Public Schools and is also on staff at the National Center on Performance Incentives at Peabody College. He has lately worked on district data quality issues and a university-district research partnership. Tim London is a teaching fellow in the School of Education at Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, focusing on educational leadership. He has been a teacher and school administrator in the United States and abroad and has worked with the American Federation of Teachers and a nonprofit foundation that provides educational opportunities to underserved families. Mike Dishman is an associate professor of educational leadership at Kennesaw State University and an attorney whose practice concentrates on the representation of public schools. He is the coauthor of six books on school law and leadership and serves on the editorial board of the Peabody Journal of Education. Jessica Lewis is a research associate at the National Center on Performance Incentives of Peabody College and currently heads the center's evaluations of performance incentive programs in Texas.