Building Better Leaders: Continuous Improvement in Educational Leadership Preparation

A thorough exploration of powerful, high-quality education leadership programs and best practices for continuous improvementResearch has shown that effective principals can have a significant, positive impact on not only student success, but also teacher satisfaction, retention, and skills development. As the need for qualified educational leaders grows, the quality of the principal preparation programs has never mattered more. In Building Better Leaders, Shelby Cosner argues that principal preparation programs must rely on the process of continuous improvement to strengthen their program quality and produce a pipeline of effective leaders. To make robust principal preparation programs a reality, she lays out the tools, processes, and steps involved in adopting and implementing such organizational learning orientations, providing both illustrations and highly actionable guidance.By reading this book, you will learn:How to foster a culture of continuous improvementHow to meet the challenges of today’s educational landscapeHow to successfully implement an improvement process where all stakeholders can understand and address program strengths and limitations  Insightful and comprehensive, Building Better Leaders supplies strategies and key resources for those who seek to learn about and enact sustained improvement, and will appeal to individuals and organizations who support such efforts. Read more