Assessing Educational Leaders: Evaluating Performance for Improved Individual and Organizational Results » (Second Edition)

Dr. Douglas Reeves is the president of the Center for Performance Assessment, an organization that works with governmental organizations and school systems to improve standards, assessments, and accountability systems. The author of seventeen books and many articles, Dr. Reeves is the author of the best-selling Making Standards Work, now in its third edition. Other recent books include The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Morale, and Personal Organization (Jossey-Bass, 2003), The Leader's Guide to Standards: A Blueprint for Educational Excellence and Equity (Jossey-Bass, 2003), Reason to Write: Help Your Child Succeed in School and In Life Through Better Reasoning and Clear Communication (Simon & Schuster, 2002), and Holistic Accountability: Serving Students, Schools, and Community (Corwin Press, 2002). Reeves has twice been named to the Harvard University Distinguished Author's Series and is the recipient of the Parent's Choice Award for his writing for students and parents.

Beyond his work assessment and research, Doug has devoted many years to classroom teaching with students ranging from elementary school to doctoral candidates. Doug's family includes four children ranging from elementary school through college. His wife, Shelley Sackett, is an attorney, mediator, and school board member. He lives near Boston and can be reached at dreeves@makingstandardswork.com.

 

 

"This is precisely what we need to get us to the next level of student success through better leadership."
--Terry Thompson, Superintendent
Wayne Township, Indianapolis, IN

"At a time when school leadership is central to the success of students, Reeves offers a comprehensive means to measure the critical elements of effective school leadership."
--Vincent Ferrandino, Executive Director
National Association of Elementary School Principals 

"Research studies increasingly support the significant impact that effective leaders have on school performance. A skilled leader is an essential component in successful school reform. This book makes a compelling case for transforming leadership evaluation from perfunctory to a focus on performance, reflection, and results."
--Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director
National Association of Secondary School Principals

"Reeves' book is not just another book on school leadership, but a blueprint for developing leaders."
--The School Administrator, December 2004

Improve teaching, learning, and leadership at every level by using a new process of leadership evaluation!

Drawing on current research, theory, and best practices of leadership, organizational performance, and personnel evaluation, this book contains the information and tools necessary to successfully evaluate all types of educational leaders and improve individual and organizational performance. Author of 17 books and numerous articles, national expert on topics of educational leadership and accountability Douglas B.Reeves provides a blueprint for creating a leader evaluation system that is fair and consistent.

Based on 10 Dimensions of Leadership, Reeves provides a scoring rubric that allows leaders, boards, and leadership trainees to compare performance that is exemplary, proficient, and progressing with performance that does not meet today's standards. Whether your school system already has a leadership evaluation system in place or you are just starting to create one, this book will improve the way you evaluate and develop educational leaders.

Three critical conclusions at the heart of the book are:

• Leadership has a dramatic impact on student achievement, equity, and staff morale
• Leadership effectiveness includes both personal predispositions and acquired knowledge skills

The purpose of leadership evaluation is to improve personal and organizational performance, not merely to render an evaluation Assessing Educational Leaders demonstrates the need for a new form of leadership evaluation for all leaders in the field of education and offers a new model of leadership evaluation.

When properly implemented, a leadership evaluation system provides invaluable resources for identifying and developing future leadership talent. It paints the picture of organizational strengths and challenges that will improve teaching, learning, and leadership at every level in the educational system.

	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
	About the Author
1	Why Leadership Evaluation Is Broken	1
2	Reframing Leadership Evaluation	11
3	Moving Beyond One-Dimensional Leadership Evaluation	27
4	Creating an Improved Leadership Evaluation System	37
5	Using Evaluation to Improve Performance	57
6	Developing a Multidimensional Leadership Assessment System	67
7	Building the Next Generation of Educational Leaders	81
8	Leading Leaders	89
9	Improving Leadership Evaluation With Multidimensional Leadership Assessment	95
Resource A	The Leadership Performance Matrix	105
Resource B	National Leadership Survey Results	129
Resource C	Leadership Evaluation Survey	143
Resource D	The Gap Between What Leaders Know and What They Do	147
	References	159
	Index	161