This practical guide blazes the way forward towards effective leadership by providing tools and strategies that educators can adopt to improve their own schools.Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a difference at all levels of urban school leadership. In this comprehensive and insightful resource, each chapter is devoted to one of seven critical leadership characteristics found in high-performing urban schools and gives leaders the tools to move urban schools to higher levels of achievement for all students—but especially for students who are low-income, English-language learners, disabled, or of color.
Grounded in research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real urban elementary, middle, and high schools face as well as the catalysts for their dramatic improvement. In shining a light on the essential qualities for exceptional leadership at all levels of urban schools, this book is a valuable guide for all educators and administrators.
Joseph F. Johnson, Jr. is the Executive Director of the National Center for Urban School Transformation and the QUALCOMM Professor of Urban Education within the department of educational leadership at San Diego State University. He has previously served as a teacher, school and district administrator, state education agency administrator, researcher and technical assistance provider, and U.S. Department of Education official. His research focuses upon schools that achieve remarkable academic results for diverse populations of students. He is co-author of the best-selling Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools: A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders (Routledge 2012).
Lynne G. Perez is the Associate Director the National Center for Urban School Transformation at San Diego State University. She serves as an executive coach in the Center’s Advancing Principal Leadership in Urban Schools Program, and serves as a lecturer with SDSU’s Department of Educational Leadership. She is co-author of the best-sellingTeaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools: A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders (Routledge 2012).
Cynthia L. Uline is a Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and executive director of San Diego State’s National Center for the 21st Century Schoolhouse. Her research explores the influence of built learning environments on students’ learning, as well as the role educational leaders, teachers, and the community play in shaping these learning spaces. She is co-author of the best-sellingTeaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools: A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders (Routledge 2012).
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