District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance

Editorial Reviews. Review. Bob Marzano and Tim Waters have made sense of a vast amount of research on the impact of school leadership at the district level.
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Marzano and Waters have an uncanny ability to translate theory into action, and they have done it again in District Leadership That Works. This book can guide the ongoing efforts at the district level to support the work going on in schools.

As a result, this statistical method produces an extremely rigorous result, enabling valid and reliable cause-and-effect inferences. Second only to the impact of the teacher is the principal, and, in this book, the superintendent and other district leaders make a significant impact on achievement.

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Home District Leadership That Works. Canadian Customers Click Here. Add to Wish List. Overview Video Reader Reviews Editorial Reviews Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. Benefits Initiate second-order change to promote student achievement.

The chapters that follow explain these leadership behaviors. In chapter 2, the authors present the idea that, based on the proactive stance discussed in chapter 1, there is support for school districts and schools to be tightly coupled relative to student achievement, as opposed to loosely coupled. The authors cite research pointing to the highest-performing school systems in the world and their tightly coupled organizations as proof of the success of this organizational model.

In organization theory, tightly coupled organizations typically have defining characteristics including the fact that they are self-correcting systems, have consensus on goals, disseminate information, and have the ability to address predictable problems.

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Contrarily, Marzano and Waters present educational systems in general as loosely coupled, rather than tightly coupled, systems. They assert that school districts operate independently and allow teachers to operate as independent contractors without uniform behaviors in every classroom.

They assert that loosely coupled districts and schools are not focusing on high student achievement system-wide and, as a result, resort to site-based management. The authors then go on to depict site-based management as a decentralized and inconsistent administrative structure with too much latitude in terms of who makes decisions.

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Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Summary and Organization of Book The book contains seven chapters, with chapter 1 addressing the direct relationship between district leadership and student achievement.

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