Essential Lessons for School Leaders: Tips for Courage, Finding Solutions, and Reaching Your Goals

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This gold mine of wisdom from top education researcher and the bestselling author of Turning Around Failing Schools and Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement contains key tips and strategies every school leader should know. Award-winning professor and former school administrator Joseph Murphy’s concise and instructive lessons will help you stay focused on what matters most as you navigate the hectic world of high-stakes testing and accountability:

• It really is all about the kids
• Optimism is essential
• Caring counts a lot
• Listen—let people finish talking
• Don’t confuse excuses and explanations

Each lesson is coupled with context in a few sentences taken from Murphy’s extensive real-world experiences. This collection is ideal for use in daily reflections, speeches, staff meetings, presentations, or as a gift to anyone who works with children.

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About the author

Joseph Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education. In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels. He has authored or co-authored eighteen books including Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement and Leadership for Literacy. He lives in Tennessee.

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