Changing the Way We Prepare Educational Leaders: The Danforth Experience / Edition 1

by Mike M. Milstein

Overview

Educational practitioners in America have become disillusioned with university preparation programmes that fail to prepare them for the realities of the workplace. This volume summarizes the knowledge gained from five of the programmes instigated by the Danforth Foundation in its efforts to stimulate new approaches to the training of educational leaders. The ramifications of what has been learned is discussed and an analysis of future issues for American schools is provided.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803960787
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/28/1993
Series:	Leadership Training Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mike M. Milstein is a partner in The Resiliency Group, Ltd., and Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of New Mexico. His professional career also includes being Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Buffalo and a classroom teacher. His teaching, research, and writing interests are in the areas of resiliency and organiza­tional change and development. He has been actively engaged in school and community resiliency development efforts in such places as Nelson, New Zealand, Ashland, Oregon; Battle Creek, Michigan; and Shelby County, Tennessee. The resil­iency initiatives he has facilitated include classroom instruction and cur­riculum improvement efforts, school wide activities that enhance the resil­iency of educators, and school-community partnerships that support resiliency development for both children and adults. He has written 11 books, including coauthoring Resiliency in Schools (2002; 1996).

Table of Contents

Genesis of the Danforth Preparation Program for School Principals - Donn W Gresso
Taking Stock - Paula A Cordeiro et al
Learnings Gleaned From Universities Participating in the Danforth Program
There Must Be a Better Way
University of Alabama
From a Minimal Program to the Renaissance
University of Central Florida
Out of the Jaws of Defeat
University of Connecticut
The Pied Piper Creates a Vision
California State University at Fresno
A Prize Winner Improves
University of Washington
Learnings Across the Terrain
Pushing the Edge - Peter T Wilson