Quality Middle School Leadership Eleven Central Skills Areas 2 Edition Weller by Weller, L. David instant download after payment.

xvi, 515 pages : äc 23 cm, \"This updated second edition of Quality Middle School Leadership: Eleven Central Skills Areas is designed to assist middle school principals in their efforts to reform education by using the effective schools research and quality management principles of W. Edwards Deming. The idea for the book came from both the author's students and his colleagues, who called for a work that was practical in scope and research-based in nature, yet addressed the contemporary demands for school reform and quality outcomes.\", \"Arranged to provide readers with theory and research first, Quality Middle School Leadership also provides specific examples of how this research can be applied - providing real meaning to the knowledge and skills that are presented. It is designed to prepare those aspiring to become effective and quality-oriented middle school principals and also to assist practitioners seeking to improve middle school education.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references and index, The middle school : a conceptual framework -- Leadership for effective middle schools -- Leadership for the exploratory curriculum -- Teams, team building, team planning, and team teaching : the role of the middle school principal -- The principal and the interdisciplinary curriculum -- Intramural athletics : promoting quality middle school goals -- A quality advisor/advisee program -- Leadership for at-risk students and remedial education in middle schools -- Schedules and scheduling for quality education -- Leadership for community and home involvement with the middle school -- The role of the principal in homogeneous and heterogeneous grouping practices -- Continuous improvement and action research : the quality methods, tools, and techniques for school improvement