Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools

Fenwick W English author Rosemary Papa author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:21st Jul '11

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools cover

There's no mystery in turning around low-performing or failing schools, but there are also no recipes. In Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools Rosemary Papa and Fenwick English identify the essential ingredients for success. The causes of failure are complex and interactive. Schools are not inert structures but living organisms. Putting schools back together is a collaborative venture. It takes a team to turn around a school, but it all begins with the leadership. The key to success rests in a school leader who has a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of schooling, human motivation, and possesses the resiliency and energy to engage in altering the internal landscape of an unsuccessful school. Two veteran educators have put together a work based on their research and experience for the past half-century. They pull no punches. The challenge is not only to turn low-performing or failing schools around, but to enable them to become more socially just places for all students.

In this text, two highly respected authors offer insight and inspiration that will be of benefit to both aspiring and practicing educational leaders. Leaders who seek to develop a culture of collaborative leadership and a system-wide commitment to improving an individual school or school system will find in these pages not only important implications from research, but—more critically—encouragement and hope. -- Frank Davidson, Arizona school superintendent and 2006 Arizona Superintendent of the Year
Papa and English clearly understand the limitations of, and our overemphasis on, data-based decision making (test scores and other local and federal accountability measures). They state throughout their book a shift to evidence-based decision making and the critical reasons why successful leaders MUST look further below the surface (for the evidence) to ensure all students receive fair, equitable, rigorous, and appropriate instruction in our schools. Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools needs to be in every university principal preparation program in the country. -- Theodore Creighton, professor, Virginia Tech and former executive director of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPE
Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools presents an informative and provocative look at the scaffolding and structure supporting and confronting turnaround principals. There is limited understanding about how to create and sustain the practice of "turnaround principals." Papa and English have filled the understanding gap with a reliable and realistic guide that effectively grasps the intricacies of the role. -- Richard A. Flanary, senior director, Leadership Programs & Services, National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

ISBN: 9781607099727

Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 17mm

Weight: 417g

108 pages