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Building Effective Learning Communities
Strategies for Leadership, Learning, & Collaboration



June 2005 | 200 pages | Corwin
This book enables prospective and practising school and district leaders, teacher leaders, and other educational leaders to learn the skills needed to create collaborative learning communities in which high academic standards are achieved for all. Sullivan and Glanz put forth a framework centered on reflective practice that will help schools to join high academic standards with a collaborative learning community.
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
About the Contributor
 
Part I. Preparing for Leadership: Focusing on the Personal
 
1. Reaching Our Common Goal: High Achievement for All Children
 
2. Leadership and Self-Knowledge
 
3. Let Us Learn
 
4. Developing a Personal Vision Statement for Building and Sustaining Leadership
 
Part II. Building a Learning Community and a Community of Learners: Strategies and Techniques
 
5. Bridging the Personal and the Interpersonal
 
6. Getting Started: Setting the Tone
 
7. Getting There
 
8. Pulling It Together
 
Resource: The Problematic Student
 
References
 
Index

"The authors frame the chapters in a logical and clear organization so that a busy superintendent can pick up the book after several days and regain context and content. They provide solid research and real-life context to their work through examples and vignettes."

The School Administrator, February 2006

"Sullivan and Glanz have written an integrative book that encompasses the values of educational leadership, educational psychology, and communication skills."

PsycCRITIQUES, February 2006

Sample Materials & Chapters

Preface

Chapter 1: Reaching Our Common Goal


Susan S. Sullivan

Susan Sullivan is currently Chair of the Department of Education at the College of Staten Island (CSI), City University of New York (CUNY) where all undergraduate and graduate education programs are under the direction of the Chair. Previously, she was the Chair of the Education Department for six years. She continues to teach post master’s courses in supervision of instruction and educational leadership in the Department leadership program. She is co-principal investigator on an NSF grant that supports the Teacher Education Honors Academy and is a founder of the CSI High School for International Studies. In addition, she is currently... More About Author

Jeffrey G. Glanz

Jeffrey Glanz currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for University-School Partnership, Director of the Masters Program and the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. Prior to coming to YU, Dr. Glanz served as Dean of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Department of Education at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. He also coordinated the educational leadership program that led to New York State certification as a principal and assistant principal. Prior to arriving at Wagner, he served as... More About Author