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- ISBN 9780367689865
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Leading School Renewal explores how school principal leadership behaviour impacts on school change endeavours, and in particular pedagogic renewal, which is a form of educational improvement that is primarily concerned with the growing of the knowledge, skills and beliefs of education in a manner that optimises students’ life options. The authors identify attributes of principals who have engaged in school renewal and examine the influences on their leadership behaviours and disposition towards renewing their schools while also acknowledging the influence of site-specific contextual variables. The authors propose that certain leadership behaviours exhibited by school principals are integral with renewing a school’s pedagogic focus. They argue renewal is a preferred form of sustainable educational change because it relates to deep-seated cultural changes in approaches to pedagogy, curriculum and school structures. Whilst also maintaining that leadership is at the heart of school improvement and principal leadership practices which are based on a clear sense of purpose, values and beliefs about learning and teaching can transform a school into a learning organisation.
Including a foreword by Professor John Hattie, this book is appropriate for all school leaders and educators who want to learn more about school leadership behaviours and highly effective school change.
Steffan Silcox has had an eclectic career in education including roles as both a primary and secondary school principal, district superintendent and Director of schools. He was a lecturer and coordinator of Curtin University’s education degree practicum programme. Silcox gained his PhD from Curtin University with ground-breaking research in the area of school pedagogic leadership.
Neil MacNeill is a high-performing school principal, and has been a school superintendent, principal consultant, and lecturer in university Master of Education courses. A prolific writer, Neil constantly looks for better ways to promote teaching and learning, and he encourages younger teachers to write by offering co-authoring opportunities. Neil is currently a principal of a large primary school in Western Australia.
