Academic Leadership: Enhancing School Effectiveness

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on improving academic leadership for enhancing the effectiveness of schools and discusses how national education policies are helpful in providing a vision towards improving school effectiveness. It offers methods and mechanisms for academic leaders to measure the learning of students for school assessment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 28 March 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the realm of school effectiveness, offering cutting-edge knowledge and strategic interventions to enhance educational outcomes. It specifically focuses on improving academic leadership, recognizing its pivotal role in driving school improvement. The book explores how national education policies provide a vision for enhancing school effectiveness and highlights the crucial role of teachers as academic leaders in implementing policy recommendations at both school and classroom levels. It provides valuable methods and mechanisms for measuring student learning, enabling academic leaders to assess school performance accurately. Moreover, the author delves into the essence of academic leadership, emphasizing the creation of a vision and mission based on scientific and research data, fostering innovation and creative ideas, cultivating teamwork, and creating a safe environment for staff to express their views. While providing a comprehensive understanding of school as an organization, the book also outlines its various management functions, including processes and quality of planning, curriculum management, learner evaluation, institutional networks, and human resource management. This volume serves as a valuable guidebook for training and capacity building for school-level practitioners and leaders in education management.

Embedded with real-life cases and episodes, this book appeals to a wide audience, including teachers, students, practitioners of education, management, and education management. It is also of interest to academicians, educationalists, practitioners, management professionals, educational leaders, and policymakers. By presenting a wealth of information and practical insights, this book contributes to the ongoing discourse on school effectiveness and empowers educators and leaders to make meaningful contributions to the improvement of educational systems.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032453484