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Summary: "Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista walk you through the eight steps necessary to craft a personal leadership philosophy: a reflective explanation of the leadership style, core values, mindset, and real-life experiences that make you the leader you are today"

Summary: "School leadership has been identified as a key function in assuring quality in education. The instructional leadership model refers to the role and the functions of school leadership to employ different management tasks with regards to teaching and learning. Instructional leadership role includes (a) developing mission and goals, (b) managing the educational production function, (c) promoting an academic learning climate, and (d) developing a supportive work environment. Instructional leaders were described as leading from a combination of both expertise and charisma focused primarily on the improvement of student learning outcomes. The monograph, entitled Instructional Leadership and Effective Teaching and Learning and written by Nazmi Xhomara, is dedicated to school instructional leadership as an important factor that influences teaching and learning at school. In the first chapter, the author presents and analyzes educational leadership vs educational management, as well as models of educational leadership and management. The author argues on the importance of different leadership models, such as managerial leadership, transformational leadership, participative leadership, interpersonal leadership, transactional leadership, postmodern leadership, moral leadership, and contingent leadership. Chapters Two, Three, and Four shed light on instructional leadership and teaching and learning, understanding of instructional leadership, the concept and practice of instructional leadership, instructional school leadership and learning environment, attributes of instructional leaders, instructional excellence, instructional leadership time management, effective teaching and teachers, as well as teaching challenges and learning environment. Meanwhile, the author has analyzed constructivism, student intelligence, understanding of supervision, instructional collegial supervision, supervision approaches, understanding of evaluation of teaching and learning, teacher evaluation, and instructional observing instruments in chapters Five, Six, and Seven. Chapters Eight and Nine are focused especially on the research work of the relationships between instructional leadership and teaching, learning, and students' achievements, as well as on an empirical study designed and conducted in Albania as a case. Chapters Ten and Eleven are dedicated to instructional leadership preparation and the future of instructional leadership As a conclusion, Xhomara indicates that principals are responsible for developing school climates and cultures that support the very best instructional practices. The new era of instructional leadership has predictably placed significant demands for accountability for student success and equity on the principal as well as for the university programs that prepare them. Working in twenty-first-century schools, the instructional leader is held more accountable than ever for student success"

Summary: "A breakthrough school improvement approach for K-12 principals that will help them to move beyond incremental gains and achieve dramatic transformation"

Summary: "The second edition of Qualities of Effective Principals shows principals how to successfully balance the needs and priorities of their schools while continuously developing and refining their leadership skills"

Summary: "Reformy systemów szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce i innych krajach zmieniają logikę funkcjonowania instytucji akademickich. Można wskazać trzy filary tych zmian, upodabniających w powszechnym odczuciu uniwersytety do korporacji. Są to: profesjonalizacja procesów zarządzania uczelniami, rosnące znaczenie trzeciej misji uniwersytetu oraz menedżerskie struktury władzy. W monografii podjęta została próba konfrontacji struktur zarządzania i nadzoru nad korporacjami, stosowanych od wielu lat w świecie biznesu i sprawdzonych w praktyce, z nowymi rozwiązaniami wprowadzanymi do akademickiego środowiska instytucjonalnego. Wielowątkowe rozważania stały się podstawą do sformułowania konkluzji, że możliwa jest koegzystencja dwóch pozornie sprzecznych idei kryjących się pod pojęciami "uniwersytetu Humboldta" i "uniwersytetu korporacyjnego" - jeżeli zastosować złagodzoną wersję menedżeryzmu, w jej zhumanizowanej, neokolegialnej formie. Taki kierunek zmian w instytucjach szkolnictwa wyższego wymaga zredefiniowania struktur władzy i metod zarządzania uniwersytetem, przy jednoczesnym utrzymaniu tradycyjnych norm i wartości akademickich. Zreformowany uniwersytet powinien być organizacją, która będzie skuteczna i efektywna, ale jednocześnie utrzyma równowagę między odpowiedzialnością kierownictwa a współuczestnictwem akademickim. Uniwersytet, zachowując walor "racjonalności instytucjonalnej", pozostanie dla tych na zewnątrz i dla tych wewnątrz legitymizowaną wersją instytucji akademickiej."

Summary: A first-of-its-kind book on educational leadership with a global perspective

Summary: This book presents both reflective questions and answers to those questions to help school leaders understand the importance of their roles in a school's success