Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice [With The Fourth Way]

We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students.Northouse, Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice, 2e Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice demonstrates Northouse s depth and breadth of experience as an academician and consultant. He is patently passionate about communicating not only the essence of leadership but the manner in which thoughtful leadership can transform people, communities, and organizations. -Journal of Leadership StudiesProviding practical strategies for becoming a better leader, this bestselling book includes interactive elements to help students apply leadership concepts to their own lives. A compelling approach to lasting educational change informed by lessons learned and new successes worldwide! In an expressive and absorbing style, this penetrating volume offers a plan for viable and sustainable educational reform that reflects research on traditional methods and new findings from successful school initiatives around the globe.Beginning with an incisive analysis of the three major educational change efforts of the past 25 years, Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley offer a plan that integrates government policy, professional involvement, and public engagement to create an environment of greater inclusiveness, security, and humanity. Drawing on Four Horizons of Hope -examples of promising implementation and practice-the book demonstrates how districts and schools can achieve dramatic improvement built on: Six Pillars of Purpose that support changeThree Principles of Professionalism that drive changeFour Catalysts of Coherence that sustain changeWritten for educators, consultants, and administrators at the school and district level, The Fourth Way represents an innovative vision of educational change for meeting the dramatic problems and dynamic challenges facing educators in the 21st century.