Staying on Track: An Educational Leader's Guide to Preventing Derailment and Ensuring Personal and Organizational Success [Hardcover]

Dale L. Brubaker (Author), Larry D. Coble (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 23, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0803965370 | ISBN-13: 978-0803965379

This practical, step-by-step guide offers educational administrators strategies that will enable them to remain effective and to avoid 'derailment'.

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"An exciting guide to help aspiring educational leaders develop." (Terrence E. Deal, Professor of Education )

"Filled with practical, useful ideas to help you get (and keep!) your career going in the right direction. All school administrators should make this book a part of their personal learning plan. We are using it as a part of our intensive leadership training program." (Richard E. Maxwell, Executive Director (Retired) )

"This second edition is moving, realistic, and candid. New chapters on how to negotiate accountability pressures and the seasons of an educational leader’s life are excellent. Every would-be and present administrator would benefit from reading this book."

(Seymour B. Sarason, Professor Emeritus of Psychology )

"If all aspiring and practicing school leaders heeded the suggestions in Staying on Track, a tremendous loss of administrative talent to attrition could be avoided. Administrators can discover how to grow their own capacities to sustain their careers rather than to attempt to escape the realities of their jobs by running from one position to the next or resigning in disillusionment. This new edition offers two additional chapters aimed at helping leaders understand the four stages of an administrative career and how to avoid derailment by the high-stakes testing movement." (Sue F. Burgess, Superintendent of Schools )

"Offers advice in plain terms, checklists of key points to remember and implement, and a season-by-season overview of what to expect in the career of an educational administrator. A helpful and practical-minded guide to being the best administrator one can be." (Library Bookwatch, November 2006 ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Dale L. Brubaker is Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has also served on the faculties of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He received his doctorate in foundations of education from Michigan State University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books on education and educational leadership, including CREATIVE CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP (Corwin), STAYING ON TRACK, (Corwin), and CREATIVE SURVIVAL IN EDUCATIONAL BUREAUCRACIES.

Larry D. Coble is Managing Associate with School Leadership Services, A Division of The Coble Professional Group, a leadership and management consulting organization, and Director of the Collegium for the Advancement of Schools at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He provides speeches and seminars on leadership nationwide. He was a Senior Program Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership and served as assistant principal, principal, and superintendent in school systems in North Carolina. His most recent superintendency was in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He received his doctorate in educational administration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is coauthor of STAYING ON TRACK (Corwin).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Corwin Press (December 23, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803965370
• ISBN-13: 978-0803965379
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,891,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A helpful and practical-minded guide to being the best administrator one can be., November 4, 2006

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This review is from: Staying on Track: An Educational Leader's Guide to Preventing Derailment and Ensuring Personal and Organizational Success (Paperback)

Now in an updated second edition with two new chapters addressing the political realities of the No Child Left Behind Act, Staying On Track: An Educational Leader's Guide to Preventing Derailment and Ensuring Personal and Organizational Success is a guide written especially for educational administrators. Focusing especially upon the most likely threats to derail an educational leader, the potential accountability for high-stakes testing, and the most important skills for improving data-driven decision making, Staying On Track offers advice in plain terms, checklists of key points to remember and implement, and a season-by-season overview of what to expect in the career of educational administrator. A helpful and practical-minded guide to being the best administrator one can be.