What Matters Most for School Leaders : 25 Reminders of What Is Really Important.

What Matters Most for School Leaders : 25 Reminders of What Is Really Important.

A primer of what is truly important for today's school leaders, this survival guide is made up of 25 fundamental insights and baseline beliefs that never change.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramsey, Robert D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2004.
Subjects:
School management and organization > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
School administrators > United States.
School administrators
School management and organization
United States
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface: Why This Book? Why Now?
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction: Some Things Never Change
  • Chapter 1
  • What You Do is Special
  • Chapter 2
  • Primero Los Ninos: Children First
  • Chapter 3
  • There are No Throwaway Kids
  • Chapter 4
  • Strong Schools Make a Strong Nation
  • Chapter 5
  • Schools are Sacred Places of Hope
  • Chapter 6
  • Teaching is the Greatest Profession
  • Chapter 7
  • Passion is the Engine That Drives School Leadership
  • Chapter 8
  • What Matters Most Costs the Least
  • Chapter 9
  • Schools are Only as Strong as the Community Allows
  • Chapter 10
  • When it's Your Own Kid, it's Different
  • Chapter 11
  • That Pesky Golden Rule Still Works
  • Chapter 12
  • Someone Has to be the Grown-up
  • Chapter 13
  • Good Leaders Learn to "K.I.S.S." and Enjoy the Happiness of Subtraction
  • Chapter 14
  • You can't have too Much Integrity
  • Chapter 15
  • Common Sense is Better than a College Degree: The Grandma Test
  • Chapter 16
  • Sometimes Kids Need Candy More Than Milk
  • Chapter 17
  • A Chicken Doesn't Stop Scratching Just Because Worms are Scarce
  • Chapter 18
  • The Reverse Side has a Reverse Side
  • Chapter 19
  • The Best Leader is a "Servant Leader"
  • Chapter 20
  • Your Mother Didn't Raise You to be a Bureaucrat
  • Chapter 21
  • Politicians and Armchair Quarterbacks Don't Get it-So You Have to
  • Chapter 22
  • If You're Not Having Fun, You're Doing it Wrong
  • Chapter 23
  • Things are Never as Bad as You Think They are
  • and You're Braver, Stronger, and Smarter than You Imagine
  • Chapter 24
  • You Work to Live, Not Live to Work
  • Chapter 25
  • It's Worth it!
  • A Final Word: The Ouija Board Effect
  • Resource A: What Others Say about What Matters Most (in School and in Life)
  • Resource B: Other Books about What Matters Most.
  • Resource C: Other Lasting Truths That Couldn't be Squeezed Into This Little Book
  • Index.

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