The Servant Leader and High School Change: More Lessons from Principal to Principal

by Rocky Wallace

Overview

Across the country, there is an urgent call for transformational high school reform. The Servant Leader and High School Change addresses the plea for secondary school reinvention, inspiring the reader to get more involved in local school improvement efforts. Wallace captures_in story form_what students, teachers, administrators, and parents have been saying for a long time: there is a simpler, more effective way to run a people-centered school. Following a struggling high school principal who has lost his way, Wallace demonstrates what can happen in one school year when a gifted mentor gets the attention of the principal who is his student and teaches him the real meaning of servant leadership, thus transforming not only the principal, but the entire school and community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578869534
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	01/16/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	132
File size:	213 KB

About the Author

Rocky Wallace has served as the principal of a U.S. Blue Ribbon School, leadership consultant to principals for the Kentucky Department of Education, and currently teaches instructional leadership classes for Morehead State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Time
Chapter 2 Calendar Management
Chapter 3 Priorities
Chapter 4 Integrity Heals the Culture
Chapter 5 Barnyard Politics
Chapter 6 Instructional Support
Chapter 7 Students Know What's Missing
Chapter 8 Holding Teachers Accountable
Chapter 9 Abusers of Children
Chapter 10 Jocks
Chapter 11 Peer Harassment (The Unspoken Subculture)
Chapter 12 Modeling: Leading by Doing
Chapter 13 Hiring the Best
Chapter 14 Seniors: Prepared for Life?
Chapter 15 Curriculum: If Not Relevant, It's Useless
Chapter 16 Puppy Love or Obsession?
Chapter 17 Cheerleaders
Chapter 18 Narcissism
Chapter 19 Termination: Calling the Terrorist's Bluff
Chapter 20 Serving
Chapter 21 Core Values Drive Everything
Chapter 22 Passage
Chapter 23 Mentor
Chapter 24 Leadership Cadres
Chapter 25 Closure

Editorial Reviews

Rocky Wallace has a delightful way of teaching leaders through storytelling. This book sets the stage for valuable dialogue in faculty, leadership, or team meetings about what it takes to be a good leader. In an age when we need to develop leadership capacity school-wide, this book helps principals and teachers think more critically about leadership and its powerful impact upon our students and our schools.

Carol Christian

Wallace narrates a story about real-time school leadership that captures the frustration and passion, the caring and mentoring of a developing servant leader. The complex environment of K-12 schools described in this account is realistic, and the strategies for real change in personal development of a so-so administrator into a servant leader hold promise for school administrators and leader mentors.

Cathy Gunn

Wallace's extensive educational leadership experience at the local, regional, state, and university levels has enabled him to develop a unique perspective in school administration. His works are always informative and beneficial, and The Servant Leader and High School Change is no exception.

Dale Duvall

Wallace does it again! This is the second in an excellent series of works filled with insight and timely wisdom applicable to anyone in a leadership position. The depth of understanding and practical resolve in each chapter makes this a how-to book for relational success no matter where you lead others.

Jacque L. King

As a former high school principal, I highly recommend The Servant Leader and High School Change to practicing high school principals, both new and experienced, which is a follow-up to the great read of Principal to Principal. Wallace providesan excellent and experienced leadership map/strategies to improve leadership effectiveness at the high school level. The book effectively breaks leadership into critical components and then uses introspection, reflection, observation, research, and best practices to outline a path to servant leadership. Even when data indicates that there is a scaricity of great schools, under the servant mentality of school leadership, many school leaders can successfully move schools to become great. A school leadermust have the commitment and fortitude to recognize that the learning environment needs to evolve toward a student-centered focus..

Jim Jackson