Adventures of Charter School Creators - Leading from the Ground Up (Paperback, New)

Adventures of Charter School Creators takes the reader inside the world of individual educational entrepreneurs who have created charter schools from scratch and lived to tell about it. Drawn from examples across the country, individuals (and a few teams) tell their stories of the victories they enjoyed and the defeats they overcame to create their schools. They include an Episcopal priest working in the Pico-Union community of Los Angeles, a corporate attorney in Miami, a manpower training specialist in East Saint Louis, the chief financial officer of a major African American church in New York City, a retired military officer in North Carolina, as well as experienced school teachers and administrators. From these stories Deal and Hentschke extract and examine the issues of school leadership that are peculiar to those school leaders who have chosen to create schools from scratch. This book: Examines entrepreneurial leadership as a concrete manifestation of school leadership. Sheds light on the concrete differences between leadership in relatively autonomous start-up charters and the relatively dependent traditional schools. Anchors charter school leadership within the context of general (non-education) leadership and distinguishes it from what is typically associated with school leadership today. It describes: The general forces in society which are pushing public K-12 education into market-based initiatives. The general leadership issues of any break-away or start-up enterprise. Will be of interest to all educators.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Education
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	October 2004
Editors:	Terrence E. Deal • Guilbert C. Hentschke
Contributors:	Kendra Kecker • Christopher Lund • Scot Oschman • Rebecca A. Shore • Lowell Billings • Jim Blew • Yvonne Chan • Dennis M. Doyle
Dimensions:	228 x 154 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-57886-166-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General
LSN:	1-57886-166-7
Barcode:	9781578861668

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