The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook. (Book Reviews).Assistant Professor of Instruction and Educational Leadership, Kean University Kean University (Pronounced KĀN or "cane") formerly Kean College of New Jersey, and previously Newark State Teachers College is a state university located in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey. , Union, N.J. The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook by Kent D. Peterson, a professor of educational administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation). A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. , and Terrence Deal, a professor of education at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , serves as a companion and implementation guide to their earlier book, Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership. In this era of educational change, the authors believe school culture really matters and busy principals must devote a good deal of time to it. The book is set up like a workbook with more than 40 activities to be performed or facilitated by the principal. Much of the book is devoted to empty lines that are provided for the completion of the exercises. Some activities require the leader to become introspective in·tro·spect intr.v. in·tro·spect·ed, in·tro·spect·ing, in·tro·spects To engage in introspection. [Latin intr regarding his or her actions relative to the culture of the school. Others involve engaging the faculty, students and/or parents in discussions and analysis of the school's culture. Some activities are rather trivial ("If my school were an animal, it would be a ...".). Most are thought provoking, particularly those dealing with assessing and transforming what Peterson and Deal call "toxic cultures." The book would be useful to central-office administrators because many of the exercises can be applied to assessing and transforming the culture of school districts as well as school buildings. (The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook, by Kent D. Peterson and Terrence E. Deal, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Calif., 2002, 140 pp. with index, $29 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) |
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