Differentiating School Leadership

<p><strong><em>Diagnose your school’s critical challenges and apply specific differentiated leadership strategies for improvement!</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>Whether yours is an urban or a rural school every setting faces unique types of challenges requiring an appropriate and differentiated response. This book introduces the qualities of differentiated leadership and stresses the importance of understanding that different schools can face very distinct sets of challenges. The author provides principals with an overview of “organizational diagnostics” with guidelines for identifying critical issues and demonstrates how to apply differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities:</p><ul style=list-style-type: disc;> <li>Preventing school decline</li> <li>Turning around a low-performing school</li> <li>Sustaining improvements</li> <li>Designing a new school</li></ul>