The New School Management by Wandering Around

Streshly (educational leadership, San Diego State U.) et al. give new and experienced school administrators advice about how to wander around the school with purpose and develop a more interactive leadership style to obtain higher student achievement, improved school culture and student discipline, higher opinions of teacher evaluation and professional development, and increased teacher efficacy. Presenting both research and practices, they begin with a definition of the approach and describe its potential for building effective leaders and schools, a method for assessing leadership style, understanding why teachers teach, and why they stay or leave, and applications of the approach to promoting quality curriculum, developing a meeting agenda, supervising instruction, dealing with marginal teachers, and creating safe campuses. The book was originally published as School Management by Wandering Around (1990) by Larry Frase and Robert Hetzel. This edition has a new section on "walk-through" classroom observation techniques, including descriptions of successful models. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)