Ethical Leadership (Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in by Robert J. Starratt

By Robert J. Starratt

In Ethical Leadership, Robert Starratt—one of the top thinkers concerning ethics and education—shows academic leaders tips on how to circulation past mere technical potency within the supply and function of studying. He demanding situations educators to turn into moral leaders who comprehend the educational approach as a profoundly ethical task that engages the total humanity of the college neighborhood. Starratt explains that academic management calls for an ethical dedication to top of the range studying for all students—a dedication in line with 3 crucial virtues: proactive responsibility; own authenticity; and an asserting, serious, and permitting presence to the staff and the paintings enthusiastic about educating and studying. He clarifies how crucial those virtues are for management within the pressure-cooker of high-stakes schooling.  He offers brilliant representation by means of starting and finishing the ebook with a "morality play," the narrative of a important who struggles to do the proper factor for his scholars and academics, as they're pressured—and frequently punished—by kingdom mandated tests.  Starratt concludes by way of supplying sensible feedback for operating leaders in addition to preservice and inservice classes in academic management.

This e-book is a quantity within the Jossey-Bass management Library in Education—a sequence designed to satisfy the call for for brand new principles and insights approximately management in schools.

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