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In the context of the current accountability and testing era, many school leaders have become fearful and feel disenfranchised Their knowledge and experience are not being validated, and often they are forced tengage in practices that gcontrary twhat they know will provide a positive school climate and culture for their staff and students This book will introduce a model of leadership as part of a transformation process arising from a learner-centered system Among the issues considered by educational leaders as the most pressing are:the relationship between moral leadership and school change (based on an ethic of responsibility for preparing all learners tfunction in a global worlddiversity: the role of school leaders tpromote success for all marginalized groups of studentspersonalizing learning and authentically engaging students tmake school more effective for all learnersincorporating learning standards and high expectations without sacrificing the personal and authentic engagement with studentsThis book addresses each of these concerns from the perspective of learner-centered systems, in which leaders distribute leadership among key constituents in the educational systemùstudents, teachers, other school staff, parents, community membersùand empower them tengage in a lifelong learning process of continuous growth and improvementáIt alsprovides a detailed and comprehensive treatment of LCP, as well as helpful exercises and tools that can be applied tpractice
