Kishia C. James

Turnaround Principals (eBook, PDF)

Passionate Leaders Who Can Improve Low-Performing Schools

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book offers a progressive perspective of turnaround principals and adds to the current turnaround school literature. It includes stories of the lived experiences of three critically conscious principals' journey to school transformation. The turnaround principals in this book disrupted cultures of oppression in predominantly African American schools. Through the power of transformative leadership these school leaders improved the academic outcomes for students as well as the working conditions of teachers and staff.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216247746
• Artikelnr.: 74833751

Autorenporträt

Kishia C. James is a lecturer at San Francisco State University and coordinator for the Community Resiliency Model® at Wake County Public School System. She is an educational leader with over two decades of educational leadership in urban school districts and turnaround schools and the co-editor of The Gloria Ladson-Billings Reader (Cognella, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Understanding the Concept of School Turnaround
Chapter 2. The Fallout from Turnaround Efforts
Chapter 3. The Philosophical Underpinnings of Critically Consciousness
Leaders
Chapter 4. The Critically Conscious Principal in Action
Chapter 5. Lessons Learned from Critically Conscious Leaders
Chapter 6. Conclusion
References
Index