Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (The Allyn & Bacon Educational Leadership Series)
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Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (The Allyn & Bacon Educational Leadership Series)
Critical incidents at the end of each chapter support development of critical thinking skills and connections to today’s challenges in leading schools to higher performance.
Reflective activities challenge students to analyze key concepts and apply problem-solving strategies to real-world problems.
Theory of Action Activities challenge readers to examine their own Theory of Action, or “Game Plan,” in which readers describe their leadership philosophy based on theory and research.
Figures and tables help students visualize the information for enhanced comprehension.
NEW! New charts and figures are included in all chapters where appropriate.
PowerPoints and test bank questions appear in each chapter. The PowerPoints can be revised as needed by the user.
ISLLC standards are connected to reach chapter content.
The Test Bank gives instructors comprehensive content assessment using multiple choice, short answer and essay questions.
NEW! Updated research and recent developments in the field --No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Race to the Top (RTT), Common Core Standards, accountability, and high-stakes testing --give readers the best available research and the most current thinking in every chapter.
NEW! An extensively revised presentation of organizational theory and its historical development, reorganized to be more systematic and logical, makes the material more accessible to readers.
NEW! Voices from the Field, examples of professional experiences written by practitioners in the field, provide real-life connections between theory/research and practice in schools.
EXPANDED DISCUSSION of Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory (CRT) in education help students focus on eliminating racism in schools and schooling through a focus on CRT at all levels in the organization.
NEW! Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) Standards and Elements provide readers with a discussion of the new 2011 standards that apply to program accreditation in Educational Leadership programs.
NEW! A new presentation of Marzano, Waters, and McNulty’s School Leadership that Works provides complete listing, analysis, and application of this important research.
NEW! A new presentation of Todd Whitaker’s popular book on Dealing with Difficult Teachers, and a new presentation on dealing with stress using mostly the work by Heifetz and Linsky provides insight for prospective organizational leaders on how to handle difficult situations and how to deal with personal stress.
NEW! All references and citations have been converted to the APA format to be compatible with the majority of university program requirements.
