Leading for learning : how to transform schools into learning organizations
/ Phillip C. Schlechty
- San Francisco : Jossey Bass, 2009
- xx, 324 p.
Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning Organizations; Contents; Preface; Guiding Questions; Assumptions; The Context Of Teaching And School Leadership; A Matter Of Style; The Audience For This Book; The Organization Of This Book; Acknowledgments; A Personal Note; The Author; Part One: Making the Case for Transformation; Chapter One: The Case for Transformation; Chapter Two: Systems and Technological Change; Chapter Three: Bureaucracies Versus Learning Organizations; Chapter Four: Bureaucratic Images of Schools; Chapter Five: A New Image of Schools. Part Two: Getting Our Bearings: The Sociopolitical LandscapeChapter Six: The Bureaucratic Impulse; Chapter Seven: Reassessing Standards; Chapter Eight: Restoring Civic Capacity and Building Social Capital: Two Keys to School Transformation; Part Three: Taking the First Steps: How Transformation Can Happen; Chapter Nine: Painting a New Image of Schools; Chapter Ten: Creating the Capacity to Support Innovation; Chapter Eleven: Standards as Sources of Direction; Chapter Twelve: A Theory of Action; Chapter Thirteen: Engaging the Heart and Recapturing Our Heritage. Appendix A: Organizational Properties and Systemic QualitiesAppendix B: Images of School; Bibliography; Index.