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Assessing Educational Leaders
Evaluating Performance for Improved Individual and Organizational Results

Second Edition
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July 2008 | 240 pages | Corwin
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This revised edition of the bestseller by Douglas B. Reeves contains the information and tools necessary to successfully evaluate all types of educational leaders and improve individual and organizational performance. Based on research, theory, and best practices of leadership, organizational effectiveness, and personnel evaluation, this book focuses on three critical concepts:

Leadership has a dramatic impact on student achievement, equity, and staff morale

Leadership effectiveness includes both personal predispositions and acquired knowledge skills

Leadership evaluation is intended to improve personal and organizational performance, not merely to render an assessment.

 
Introduction
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
1. Why Leadership Evaluation Is Broken
The Knowing-Doing Gap

 
Progress in Leadership Evaluation

 
Ambiguous Leadership Standards

 
Incoherent Leadership Evaluations

 
Authority-Responsibility Disequilibrium

 
A Better Way: Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

 
 
2. Reframing Leadership Evaluation
Patrick's Choice

 
A New Vision of Educational Accountability

 
Criteria for Multidimensional Leadership Assessment (MLA)

 
Implications of a New Vision for Leadership Evaluation

 
 
3. Moving Beyond One-Dimensional Leadership Evaluation
The Prevalence of One-Dimensional Evaluation

 
Leadership Is More Than Test Scores

 
Leadership Is More Than Popularity

 
Leadership Is More Than Obedience

 
 
4. Creating an Improved Leadership Evaluation System
Domains of Leadership Performance

 
Leadership Performance Standards

 
Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

 
 
5. Using Evaluation to Improve Performance
The Capacity-Building Continuum

 
The Challenge Continuum

 
The Coaching Continuum

 
The Counseling Continuum

 
Defining Performance: The Key to Using the Continua

 
 
6. Developing a Multidimensional Leadership Assessment System
Leadership Domains

 
Leadership Performance

 
Leadership Assessment as a Research Goldmine

 
Organizational Goals, Values, Priorities

 
The Performance Continuum

 
Qualitative Information: The Lens for Understanding Quantitative Data

 
Reflection and Self-Regulation

 
 
7. Building the Next Generation of Educational Leaders
The Leadership Development Imperative

 
Prototype for a Leadership Development System

 
Authentic Assessment for Future Leaders

 
 
8. Leading Leaders
The Coaching Conundrum: Results of Antecedents?

 
Inquiry and Hypothesis Testing

 
Applying MLA Throughout the Organization

 
 
9. Improving Leadership Evaluation With Multidimensional Leadership Assessment
Analyze the Present Evaluation System

 
Create Dimensions of Leadership

 
Specify Performance Levels

 
Field Test the Instrument at Multiple Levels

 
Implement Throughout the Organization

 
Share Results With Universities and Research Institutions

 
Use MLA for Training, Recruiting, and Developing Leaders

 
Conclusion: Finding Answers Inside

 
 
10. Hallmarks of Excellence
 
11. Leadership Responsibilities for Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring
 
Resource A: The Leadership Performance Matrix
 
Resource B: National Leadership Survey Results
 
Resource C: Leadership Evaluation Survey
 
Resource D: The Gap Between What Leaders Know and What They Do
 
Resource E: Principal Evaluation Rubrics
 
Resource F: Leadership Professional Growth Matrix
 
References
 
Index

"Without question, Reeves indeed provides readers with insight in evaluating performance for improved individual and organizational results. The book makes a distinct contribution to the field of education."

Kenneth M. Arndt, Superintendent
Community Unit School District 300, Carpentersville, IL

"The book is a great contribution on a very critical topic. It provides an excellent guide for developing a system and having important conversations with the leadership team."

Rene S. Townsend, Principal of Leadership Associates
Price Charities

Praise for the First Edition:
“This book touches on critical aspects of motivating your staff. Standards-based and truthful characteristics are employed to make it even more worthwhile.”

Principal Navigator, May 2008
Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators

Sample Materials & Chapters

Preface to the Second Edition

Chapter 1

Douglas B. Reeves

Dr. Douglas Reeves is the author of more than 40 books and more than 100 articles on leadership and education. He has twice been named to the Harvard University Distinguished Authors Series and was named the Brock International Laureate for his contributions to education. His career of work in professional learning led to the Contribution to the Field Award from the US National Staff Development Council, now Learning Forward. He was also named the William Walker Scholar by the Australian Council of Educational Leaders. His recent books include Deep Change Leadership, Achieving Equity and Excellence, From Leading to Succeeding,... More About Author

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