How Leaders in Academia can Learn from Elite Athletes and Coaches
Focusing on leadership and motivation, this book draws parallels between the strategies of elite athletes and coaches and the challenges faced by educational administrators in both higher education and K-12 settings. It offers insights into effective organization and team dynamics, providing valuable lessons that can enhance leadership practices within educational institutions.
Focusing on the limitations of American universities in adapting to modern challenges, the book explores insights from contemporary sciences. It offers valuable lessons that can guide university leaders in fostering a more responsive and effective educational environment. Through these insights, the text aims to inspire innovative approaches to higher education, addressing the urgent needs of today’s academic landscape.
This book helps the reader find that correct balance of authority across the governance groups by empowering all groups within a common framework and understanding.
Assuming the Mantel of Leadership is a book of real-life case studies and activities that allows the reader to respond to the cases and activities by utilizing and reflecting upon their own institution's policies and context.
Democratic Empowerment of Teachers and Parents
Focusing on the current state of American education, this book explores the necessary organizational structures, leadership styles, and decision-making practices to align schools with democratic values. It emphasizes the importance of reframing how decisions are made to enhance the effectiveness and integrity of educational institutions, ultimately advocating for a system that reflects the democratic principles cherished in society.
As a professor of educational administration/leadership and as a former school leader, Perry Rettig found himself extremely dissatisfied with the dry, passive, and detached textbooks for such programs. He also found that the students in his programs had been disappointed, too. While traditional texts do a good job of detailing theory and conceptual models important to school leadership, these same theories and constructs are taught without any real-life and meaningful interaction. Practicing Principals is an interactive book that demands that students experience and thoughtfully analyze these theories and constructs in actual, real-life situations before they take on the job. Students, professors, school boards, professional organizations, and the administrators themselves are demanding that university programs become more authentic. With Practicing Principals , Rettig gives the novice the opportunity to practice how they would handle real-life situations and then analyze their work with their peers, their professors, and even their own building administrators.
Challenging traditional educational leadership models, the book advocates for a shift towards the principles of twentieth-century science, particularly quantum mechanics, as a more effective framework. Through the fictional journey of administrator Leslie O'Connor, it critiques current training methods and highlights the limitations of contemporary school administration. This work offers a fresh and thought-provoking perspective for those interested in the organization and management of educational systems.