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Praise for the First Edition :

`This book offers a challenge to all school leaders. Within its pages the reader will find no checklists on how to become a successful leader, no rehash of the tenets of leadership according to a host of theoreticians, but rather an invitation to participate in a personal journey′ - School Leadership and Management

The book presents a personal perspective on what it means to care enough to lead. It demonstrates an understanding of the role of leaders and what occurs when leaders bond with others in significant ways in the development of our schools. This book embraces the notion that leaders must establish a connection with all others in an organization in order to reflect the common core values that establishes the organization to the next moral and ethical level. This book intends to widen what it really means to be a leader and explores the yet unexplored and heretofore dimensions of moral leadership.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword to the 1st Edition - Aretha B. Pigford
• Foreword to the 2nd Edition - Governor Richard W. Riley
• Preface
• About the Author
• 1 It's Better to Know Some of the Questions Than All the Answers
• 2 Why Am I Going to Visit Bob?
• 3 What is a Leader?
• 4 What Do I Care About?
• 5 What Do I Believe About People?
• 6 Am I Willing to Share Power?
• 7 Do I Care Enough to Do the Little Things?
• 8 What Does It Mean to Be Responsible?
• 9 Am I Willing to Jump for the Brass Ring?
• 10 Am I Taking Care of My Water Buffalo?
• 11 Why Am I Doing This?
• 12 Who's the King or Queen of the Jungle?
• 13 Honey, Do These Pants Make Me Look Fat?
• 14 What Does It Mean to Be a Teacher?
• 15 Can You Just Call Me Willie, Mrs. Peterson?
• 16 Can I Care Enough to Be My Own Best Friend?
• 17 Why Haven't Our Schools Been More Successful?
• 18 How Is a School Transformed?
• 19 Why Am I a Professional Educator?
• 20 Will That Be a Senior Coffee?
• 21 Your Leadership Becomes You!
• References
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Leonard O. Pellicer is Dean of the School of Education and Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne and Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of South Carolina. He has served in a number of teaching and leadership roles over the past thirty-five years. He served as the first director of the South Carolina Educational Policy Center, at the University of South Carolina, and was also the director of the African American Professors Program, a program designed to address the problem of a shortage of African American professors at predominantly white higher-education institutions. His experiences prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina include service as a high school and middle school teacher, high school assistant principal, high school principal, and director of a teacher education center that provided staff development opportunities for teachers and administrators in five Florida school districts. In 1986 to 1987, he was a Fullbright Scholar in Southeast Asia. During this period, he taught graduate classes at the University of the Philippines and used his expertise in school leadership to assist in developing programs to train school leaders in the region. From 1992 to 195, he spent a good deal of time in the Republic of South Africa as a member of a team that developed a field-based training program for black principals in the "new South Africa." He holds a bachelor′s degree in English education and master′s and doctoral degrees in educational administration from the University of Florida in Gainesville. For more than twenty-five years, he has written, consulted, and spoken extensively in the areas of school leadership, instructional leadership, and educational programs for disadvantaged students. He has coauthored two other books with Lorin Anderson for Corwin Press, including A Handbook for Teacher Leaders (1995 and Teacher Peer Assistance and Review: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Administrators (2001).