Leading Your Team to Excellence: How to Make Quality Decisions / Edition 1

by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

Overview

Learn, step-by-step, how to create and sustain an effective, dynamic, site-based decision-making team at your school.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803965218
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/26/1996
Series:	Educational Quality and Accountability Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Elaine K. Mc Ewan is an educational consultant with The Mc Ewan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001).

Mc Ewan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (Ed D) from Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Understanding Decision Making
Group Processes for Building and Sharing Values
Group Processes for Building Teams
Group Processes for Generating Ideas
Group Processes for Sharing Critical Information
Group Processes for Problem Solving
Group Processes for Reaching Consensus
Group Processes for Resolving Conflict
Group Processes for Goal Setting and Planning