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Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134290186. Here’s what today’s educational leaders need to know, what they should be able to do, and how they should behave in order to lead schools that address the needs of all students. Practicing the Art of Leadership by Reginald Leon Green presents success-proven practices, processes, and procedures grounded in time-tested theories, current research, and the creative, innovative, real-life experiences of educators in the field who are transforming underperforming schools into thriving educational learning communities. An invaluable guide to what today’s educators need to know, how they need to do it, and the ways they should behave as exemplary leaders, the book takes into account the many changes in the standards, competencies, and accountability movements that have ushered in a new set of demands, requirements, and expectations for today’s educational leaders. Complete coverage of the new topics, methods, and techniques effective educational leaders are using to address these changes appear throughout the text and are aligned with the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, formerly known as ISLLC Standards. This new edition features opportunities for reflective practice through the use of scenarios depicting actual school issues, occurrences, and the behavior of practicing school leaders to help readers acquire knowledge and skills that can be used to build a solid framework for their own practice. The book’s focus on how to use the new 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders helps educators develop teacher capacity, create professional learning communities, effectively manage organizational resources, construct appropriate organizational policies and systems, lead instructional change, and engage in other deep and meaningful work outside of the classroom and in the community. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos and assessments. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText*The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is: Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad® and Android® tablet.* Affordable. The Enhanced Pearson eText may be purchased stand-alone for 50-60% less than a print bound book. *The Enhanced eText features are only available in the Pearson eText format. They are not available in third-party eTexts or downloads. *The Pearson eText App is available on Google Play and in the App Store. It requires Android OS 3.1-4, a 7” or 10” tablet, or iPad iOS 5.0 or later.

Practicing the Art of Leadership provides the tools you'll need to empower your school and staff to meet the needs of all students. This text strives to equip you with success-proven practices that educational leaders today use to transform underperforming schools into thriving learning communities. Pearson eText is an easy-to-use digital textbook that you can purchase on your own or instructors can assign for their course. The mobile app lets you keep on learning, no matter where your day takes you -- even offline. You can also add highlights, bookmarks, and notes in your Pearson eText to study how you like. NOTE: This ISBN is for the Pearson eText access card. Pearson eText is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. Before purchasing, check that you have the correct ISBN. To register for and use Pearson eText, you may also need a course invite link, which your instructor will provide. Follow the instructions provided on the access card to learn more.

This is the story of how a seven-year old American boy, Nicholas Green, was shot in a botched robbery while traveling along a major highway in the south of Italy on a family vacation, how his parents, Reg and Maggie Green, donated his organs and corneas to seven very sick Italians, four of them teenagers and how that decision changed the views of millions of people around the world about organ donation.In Italy alone donation rates in the next 10 years tripled, a rate of increase no other country has ever come close to so that thousands of people are alive there who would now be dead. Newspaper and television channels around the world covered the story and its aftermath: an increase in understanding worldwide of the power of a single decision to save multiple lives. "The Nicholas Effect" describes every stage in how this one decision changed the world's view of what until then had been to most people an obscure and frightening surgical procedure. It tells how the seven recipients, some on the point of death, resumed their lives, including one who had a baby four years later and called him Nicholas. It tells how the Green family adapted to life without Nicholas including the birth of twins to Maggie, two years after Nicholas' death and how Nicholas' sister, Eleanor, four years old at the time of the shooting, found the strength to overcome his loss and deal with the whirlwind in which meeting celebrities and photo sessions with leading politicians became a way of life.The book covers the arrest, trial and conviction of two Mafia men who had attacked the Greens' rented car because they thought it was carrying a cargo of jewelry. It describes in detail the making of a made-for-television movie, "Nicholas' Gift," starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates which has been seen by a hundred million people worldwide. It ends on a note of hope, reflecting on the much-increased numbers of people around the world who are now willing to donate a loved one's organs to complete strangers.

As schools progress, evolve, and change, the ways in which educational professionals lead and organize must also change. The Four Dimensions of Leadership provides readers with an invaluable guide to the latest reforms and modifications to school systems and comprehensively incorporates each major leadership principle advocated for modern-day school leaders at all levels. The text not only gives readers an opportunity to read and study leadership principles, it also provides tools to operationalize those principles and enhance their capacity to lead through the use of inventories, activities, and real life scenarios. Applicable to courses in general leadership, instructional leadership, participatory governance, and organizational behavior, this companion text confronts the challenges of the recent redefinition of leaderships roles in schools: how it is being informed by competencies, standards, and accountability measures and how this movement forges a connection between school leaders and overall student achievement. Furthermore, the book presents a leadership preparation program that confronts the challenges and complexities of these new standards using a multi-dimensional approach: 1) Understanding Self and Others; 2) Understanding the Complexities of Organizational Life; 3) Building Bridges through Relationships; and 4) Engaging in Leadership Best Practices. The book is a companion text to Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-based Approach to Implementing the ISLLC Standards.