The Principal's Guide to Curriculum Leadership

List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors 1. Defining Curriculum Leadership Getting Started Defining Curriculum Leadership Organizational Phenomena Influencing Curriculum Leadership Rethinking the Education Hierarchy Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: Stand and Deliver 2. A Curriculum Leadership Journey ISLLC Standards and Curriculum Leadership Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: Principal Wonkermann?s Late Afternoon Experience: De Ja Vu All Over Again 3. Principal Expectations as Curriculum Leader Shoot Low, Expect Less Understanding Principal Expectations in Curriculum Development Principal Expectations in the Curriculum Leadership Role Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: Who?s the Turkey This Thanksgiving? 4. The Principal?s Role in Curriculum Change and Innovation Constructive Change = Positive Growth The Basis for Change and Why It Is So Necessary Why We Resist Change How to Overcome Resistance to Change The Change Process in Curriculum Development Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: It?s a Real Puzzle to Me! Managing Change Tolerance Test 5. Curriculum Leadership in Action The Role of the Principal in Curriculum Design and Development The Challenges of Leading Curriculum Leadership Through Walker?s Deliberative Model of Curriculum Development Enacting the Deliberative Model of Curriculum Development Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: Who Decides What and How? 6. Where the Action Is: Building Relationships with Teachers Leadership and Followership: You Can?t Have One Without the Other 10 Curriculum Leadership Building Blocks for Preventing and Treating Arrested Teacher Development Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: Zachary School Case Study 7. Systematically Integrating Curriculum and Instruction The Role and Vision of the Principal in Defining Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Curriculum and Instruction Five Steps to Successful Curriculum Integration The Integration of Curriculum and Instruction: How Relevance and Interest Help Students Become Better Learners The Principal?s Role in Curriculum Integration Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: Well, It?s the State Mandated Curriculum! 8. Professional Learning and Curriculum Leadership Teaching and Learning Building Teacher Capacity Four Factors Impacting Professional Learning Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: Professional Learning at Sandy Shores School 9. The Principal and Legislated Learning: Working the System and the Prospects of Curriculum Renewal Curriculum Leadership and Legislated Learning The Principal in the Process of Curriculum Renewal and Change Toward Change and a Renewed Curriculum High-Stakes Testing, Curriculum Renewal, and Educational Practice Curriculum Theory and the Renewal Process Final Thoughts Discussion Questions Case Study Application: It's All State Mandated Anyway! Part II: A Principal Returns From the Annual Summer State Leadership Academy 10. Trailblazing Digital Curriculum Leadership 101 Trailblazing Let?s Talk Technology Standards A Voice From the Field The Quaker Digital Academy Story Looking Forward Final Thoughts One More Thing Discussion Questions Case Study Application: My School and the NETS A Informal NETS A Principal Profile Campus Evaluation Instrument Epilogue References Index