Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-Based Approach to Implementing the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, 5th edition

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• Embedded videos. Integrated educational leadership videos throughout the chapters illustrate key techniques, approaches, and theories.
• Check Your Understanding quizzes. Exercises matched to chapter learning outcomes help readers assess their understanding and ensure that they master the learning outcomes. Exercises and suggested feedback are provided in the Enhanced Pearson eText.
• End of Chapter Self-Check Assessments. Embedded assessments with feedback help students review new terms and concepts and encourage reflection and discussion on the issues of the chapter. These are presented within the Enhanced Pearson eText as interactive quizzes.

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Additional text features and benefits include:

Known for its reader-friendly tone and approach, this resource includes a number of features to help current and future educational leaders understand and implement the best practices for ensuring sound instructional leadership, including:

• NEW! The 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, formerly known as ISLLC Standards, are included in this edition, adding a new child-centered focus to the text, with an emphasis on leadership for teaching and learning and student achievement.
  • The new standards are supported by a solid research base and aligned with the new School Leaders Licensure Assessment.
  • The standards are presented in Chapter 1 and specific standards serve as reflective focal points for the content of each of the other chapters.
  • New figures and tables reflecting the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders have been added to each chapter, providing a deeper understanding of the standards and how they might be applied in leadership situations.
• Real-life scenarios incorporate the leadership behaviors informed by the standards in a problem-based approach that helps leaders develop the skills and attributes they need to use the practices effectively.
  • Shows theory in practice. The theories and processes necessary to succeed today’s schools are presented, including approaches to connecting the theories to practice for resolving problems.
• NEW! The latest research on leadership theories and their applications is presented in rewritten Chapters 2 and 3, adding depth to the study of leader behaviors, skills, and attributes.
  • This addition allows for an expanded use of the text relative to instructional leadership and student achievement.
• NEW! PowerPoints help professors enhance their presentations of content material. The PowerPoints are referenced throughout and are listed in the Instructor’s Resource Manual.
• Illustrates the processes and procedures used by effective school leaders to meet challenging school situations by presenting both historical and contemporary theories.
• Includes learning aids designed to help readers envision how to apply the principles of each chapter, including:
  • Introductory sections.
  • New Learning Outcomes aligned with major headings.
  • End-of-chapter pedagogical features with opportunities for further personal study, ideas for research projects, topics for in-class discussions, and more.
  • Reflective Questions accompanying scenarios to focus on key issues.
  • Addressing the Critical Issues features that pose, discuss, and suggest solutions to each scenario’s problem.
  • NEW! Problem of Practice additions in the end-of-chapter activities that place chapter concepts in practical school situations give readers the opportunity to self assess what they’ve learned in each chapter.
• Ideal as a practice tool for SLLA, the book gives students the opportunity to experience activities similar to those appearing on the assessment.

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eTextThe Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Embedded videos. Integrated educational leadership videos throughout the chapters illustrate key techniques, approaches, and theories.
• Check Your Understanding quizzes. Exercises matched to chapter learning outcomes help readers assess their understanding and ensure that they master the learning outcomes. Exercises and suggested feedback are provided in the Enhanced Pearson eText.
• End of Chapter Self-Check Assessments. Embedded assessments with feedback help students review new terms and concepts and encourage reflection and discussion on the issues of the chapter. These are presented within the Enhanced Pearson eText as interactive quizzes.

Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted.

Key content changes include:

• The 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, formerly known as ISLLC Standards, are included in this edition, adding a new child-centered focus to the text, with an emphasis on leadership for teaching and learning and student achievement.
  • The new standards are supported by a solid research base and aligned with the new School Leaders Licensure Assessment.
  • The standards are presented in Chapter 1 and specific standards serve as reflective focal points for the content of each of the other chapters.
  • New figures and tables reflecting the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders have been added to each chapter, providing a deeper understanding of the standards and how they might be applied in leadership situations.
  • The latest research on leadership theories and their applications is presented in rewritten Chapters 2 and 3, adding depth to the study of leader behaviors, skills, and attributes.
    • This addition allows for an expanded use of the text relative to instructional leadership and student achievement.
  • New PowerPoints help professors enhance their presentations of content material. The PowerPoints are referenced throughout and are listed in the Instructor’s Resource Manual.
  • Problem of Practice additions in the end-of-chapter activities place chapter concepts in practical school situations to give readers the opportunity to self assess what they’ve learned in each chapter.
• New changes and additions to content include new discussions on:
  • Social justice. Chapter 3 presents a general definition of the concept of social justice, expands the definition into a discussion of the relationship between social justice and effective leadership in schools, and shows how school leaders should address the concept. Included is a look at the roles and responsibilities of school leaders, relative to social justice as informed by the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders.
  • Leadership dispositions. Readers get a deep understanding of the preferred dispositions of effective school leaders (Ch. 4).
  • The importance of relationships and establishing a Professional Learning Community in schools. Readers get the opportunity to analyze the characteristics of a professional learning community as reported in current research (Ch. 4).
  • Using data to inform instructional leadership. Discussions show proven practices used by effective instructional leaders (Ch. 8).
  • Instructional leadership research. Students benefit from the latest research proven practices on instructional leadership (Ch. 8 and throughout).
  • School reform. A new section exposes students to practices, processes, and procedures used by effective school leaders to transform underperforming schools (Ch. 8).