Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools

Rosemary Papa is The Del and Jewel Lewis Endowed Chair in the College of Education at Northern Arizona University.Fenwick W. English is the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of educational leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Chapter 1 CHAPTER ONE: Taking the Mystery Out of Turning Around Underperforming and Failing SchoolsChapter 2 CHAPTER TWO: Selecting Change Models: Changing What for What?Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE: Activist Leadership to Improve Schooling and Life ChancesChapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR: The Yin and Yang of Successful School TurnaroundsChapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE: It Takes Socially Just Activist Leaders to Turn Around SchoolsChapter 6 Appendix 1: Heuristics for the Activist LeaderChapter 7 Appendix 2: Explicit Leader Beliefs and ActionsChapter 8 Appendix 3: Trouble Shooting Guide

In this text, two highly respected authors offer insight and inspiration that will be of benefit to both aspiring and practicing educational leaders. Leaders who seek to develop a culture of collaborative leadership and a system-wide commitment to improving an individual school or school system will find in these pages not only important implications from research, but—more critically—encouragement and hope.