Richly descriptive narratives and ethnographic insights illuminate the experiences of teachers and school administrators in challenging educational environments. The book emphasizes the importance of developing critical intercultural awareness among educators, providing valuable perspectives that highlight the complexities of teaching and learning in diverse contexts.
The Principal's Field Manual
Focusing on essential business operations, this book equips educational leaders with the necessary skills to manage personnel, finances, and risk effectively. It addresses a critical gap in leadership training, emphasizing the importance of understanding the administrative aspects crucial for running a successful school.
This book addresses the lived challenges to teacher leadership. It illustrates an arts-based research approach that effectively highlights the broader context of relational dynamics between adults at school, using one-act plays to open up difficult conversations on complex issues. School leadership has, ostensibly, a performative dimension. Teacher leaders enact leadership from a more vulnerable platform than those with administrative positions, while they try to thrive in roles which are not always clear from their pre-service preparation. Early-career teachers are often not aware of the very real hazards that can accompany their initial foray into leadership. This book encourages creative thinking about how to enact the teacher role to better embed and advocate for a supportive and just system.