Resourceful Leadership: Tradeoffs and Tough Decisions on the Road to School Improvement a book by Elizabeth A. City and Karen Hawley Miles

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In Resourceful Leadership, Elizabeth A. City examines decisions about the use of three key resources--time, money, and staff--and how tradeoffs among them are integrated into school leaders' improvement strategies. She undertakes a detailed study of two small urban high schools in their first year of conversion from a large, comprehensive high school.

Resourceful Leadership is divided into six chapters that present a lively and insightful analysis of school leaders' dilemmas, decisions, and tradeoffs. Woven through the book is the discussion of additional intangible but essential resources: vision, trust, ideas, energy, and hope. The book offers both the theory behind effective resource use and a practical look at the decisions, tradeoffs, and practices that support it.

"The central thesis of this book," City writes, "is that resources matter for student achievement, and that school leaders can make decisions about resources that matter."

Administrators from all kinds of schools--not only small ones--will find this book uniquely valuable as they seek to make strategic use of the resources available to them.

Product Details

Price

$34.50

Publisher

Harvard Education PR

Publish Date

March 01, 2008

Pages

206

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9781891792861

About the Author

Elizabeth A. City helps educators improve instruction through leadership development and the strategic use of data and resources. She works primarily with urban school districts and is a faculty member at Boston's School Leadership Institute. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, and principal. She is coeditor of Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning (Harvard Education Press, 2005) and coauthor of The Teacher's Guide to Leading Student-Centered Discussions: Talking about Texts in the Classroom (Corwin Press, 2006).

Reviews

City realizes that the important part of the story is not about the numbers it s about the people. Within each chapter she weaves together seemingly disparate considerations such as values and beliefs, policies and funding, vision and hope. She delineates clearly the choices that each school leader makes, capturing the possibilities and the paradoxes of each step down the road. Larry Myatt, Founding Headmaster, Fenway High School, Boston, Mass."
District administrators often think in very narrow and traditional ways about how to use resources. By offering a rich description of the change process in two urban high schools, Resourceful Leadership opens up a dialogue about new ways to think about and use resources. Combining the hard analysis of resource use with the soft but equally important side of the change process (vision, hope, trust, ideas, and energy) is an important contribution. This well-written and timely book offers powerful lessons for school and district leaders. Jim Kushman, Director, Center for School and District Improvement, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory"
"Resourceful Leadership "paints a rich portrait of the day-to-day complexity involved in leading school improvement. Liz City has thoughtfully woven together strands from research, practice, and policy. The result is a realistic and vivid description of the central challenges in the vitally important work of school leadership. Paul Reville, President, Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy; Chairman, Massachusetts State Board of Education; and Director, Education Policy and Management Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education"