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- catalog abstract ""This book provides school administrators and reform activists with a comprehensive framework for creating unique leadership for the schoolhouse that is more community-like, more democratic, and more responsive both to what we know about human nature and what we know about how students learn and develop. This can be accomplished, Sergiovanni shows, by replacing the politics of division - which emphasize contracts and deals, and winning and losing - with the politics of virtue which emphasize a shared commitment to the common good." "Arguing that teacher development is the single most important key to improving schools in the long run, Sergiovanni explains how we can change school cultures so that they become learning and inquiring communities for teachers as well as students. Throughout the book, Sergiovanni draws on numerous ideas and real-life examples from a variety of schools and school districts to sort out what does and does not make sense when thinking about leadership for our schools."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8161215.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""This book provides school administrators and reform activists with a comprehensive framework for creating unique leadership for the schoolhouse that is more community-like, more democratic, and more responsive both to what we know about human nature and what we know about how students learn and develop. This can be accomplished, Sergiovanni shows, by replacing the politics of division - which emphasize contracts and deals, and winning and losing - with the politics of virtue which emphasize a shared commitment to the common good." "Arguing that teacher development is the single most important key to improving schools in the long run, Sergiovanni explains how we can change school cultures so that they become learning and inquiring communities for teachers as well as students. Throughout the book, Sergiovanni draws on numerous ideas and real-life examples from a variety of schools and school districts to sort out what does and does not make sense when thinking about leadership for our schools."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.".
- catalog description "What we have, what we need -- A theory for the schoolhouse -- Understanding and building community in schools -- Establishing a moral voice -- The roots of school leadership -- The case for smaller schools -- Doing what's best for students -- Teacher development and schools as centers of inquiry -- A new theory of change -- The politics of virtue: A new compact.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 203 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Leadership for the schoolhouse.".
- catalog identifier "0787901199".
- catalog isFormatOf "Leadership for the schoolhouse.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Jossey-Bass education series".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Leadership for the schoolhouse.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "371.2/00973 20".
- catalog subject "Educational leadership United States.".
- catalog subject "LB2805 .S523 1996".
- catalog subject "School management and organization United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "What we have, what we need -- A theory for the schoolhouse -- Understanding and building community in schools -- Establishing a moral voice -- The roots of school leadership -- The case for smaller schools -- Doing what's best for students -- Teacher development and schools as centers of inquiry -- A new theory of change -- The politics of virtue: A new compact.".
- catalog title "Leadership for the schoolhouse : how is it different? : why is it important? / Thomas J. Sergiovanni.".
- catalog type "text".