S. David Brazer is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Stanford University, USA.Scott C. Bauer is Professor of Education and Associate Dean of Advanced Education and Doctoral Programs at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.Bob L. Johnson, Jr. is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Alabama, USA.

"This book is a major resource for principal preparation programs that avoids simple management platitudes while providing thought provoking examples of dilemmas of leadership practice for discussion. The integration of organization theory and real cases will engage both instructors and students."--Karen Seashore Louis, Regents Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota"This text provides a range of theoretical and historical perspectives on school organizations relevant to the work of educational leaders and engages readers in experiences intended to demonstrate the value of such perspectives for their practice. This is a very ambitious undertaking which is mostly quite successful."--Kenneth Leithwood, Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto

• ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1 Understanding OrganizationsChapter 1 Understanding Schools and Districts as OrganizationsChapter 2 Schools as Open Systems: There’s a Whole World Out ThereChapter 3 School Leadership as Organized Anarchy: Taming the Untamable BeastChapter 4 Organizational LearningChapter 5 What Do Leaders Do?Part 2 Leading SchoolsChapter 6 Transformational Leadership and ChangeChapter 7 Leading InstructionChapter 8 Leading With Others: Distributed Leadership and its Conceptual AncestorsChapter 9 Epilogue: Where We Stand at This Moment

S. David Brazer is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Stanford University, USA.Scott C. Bauer is Professor of Education and Associate Dean of Advanced Education and Doctoral Programs at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.Bob L. Johnson, Jr. is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Alabama, USA.

"This book is a major resource for principal preparation programs that avoids simple management platitudes while providing thought provoking examples of dilemmas of leadership practice for discussion. The integration of organization theory and real cases will engage both instructors and students."--Karen Seashore Louis, Regents Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota"This text provides a range of theoretical and historical perspectives on school organizations relevant to the work of educational leaders and engages readers in experiences intended to demonstrate the value of such perspectives for their practice. This is a very ambitious undertaking which is mostly quite successful."--Kenneth Leithwood, Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto

• ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1 Understanding OrganizationsChapter 1 Understanding Schools and Districts as OrganizationsChapter 2 Schools as Open Systems: There’s a Whole World Out ThereChapter 3 School Leadership as Organized Anarchy: Taming the Untamable BeastChapter 4 Organizational LearningChapter 5 What Do Leaders Do?Part 2 Leading SchoolsChapter 6 Transformational Leadership and ChangeChapter 7 Leading InstructionChapter 8 Leading With Others: Distributed Leadership and its Conceptual AncestorsChapter 9 Epilogue: Where We Stand at This Moment

S. David Brazer is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Stanford University, USA.Scott C. Bauer is Professor of Education and Associate Dean of Advanced Education and Doctoral Programs at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.Bob L. Johnson, Jr. is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Alabama, USA.

"This book is a major resource for principal preparation programs that avoids simple management platitudes while providing thought provoking examples of dilemmas of leadership practice for discussion. The integration of organization theory and real cases will engage both instructors and students."--Karen Seashore Louis, Regents Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota"This text provides a range of theoretical and historical perspectives on school organizations relevant to the work of educational leaders and engages readers in experiences intended to demonstrate the value of such perspectives for their practice. This is a very ambitious undertaking which is mostly quite successful."--Kenneth Leithwood, Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto

• ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1 Understanding OrganizationsChapter 1 Understanding Schools and Districts as OrganizationsChapter 2 Schools as Open Systems: There’s a Whole World Out ThereChapter 3 School Leadership as Organized Anarchy: Taming the Untamable BeastChapter 4 Organizational LearningChapter 5 What Do Leaders Do?Part 2 Leading SchoolsChapter 6 Transformational Leadership and ChangeChapter 7 Leading InstructionChapter 8 Leading With Others: Distributed Leadership and its Conceptual AncestorsChapter 9 Epilogue: Where We Stand at This Moment