Developing Effective Principals Through Collaborative Inquiry Book

Foreword   Tom Sobol     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Overview     1
Changing Education, Changing Leadership     3
The Challenges of the Urban School Principalship     5
Principal and District Relationships     7
Principal Development: Learning the Principalship     8
Developing Collaborative Inquiry as Leadership Development     10
The Collaborative Inquiry Leadership Seminar     11
Our Inquiry About This Form of Leadership Development     15
Organization of the Book     17
Audience     17
Final Thought     18
The Collaborative Inquiry Leadership Seminar: Description and Examples     19
Selecting a Collaborative Inquiry Framing Question     20
Seminar Components     21
Seminar Process     31
Seminars over Time     33
Collaborative Inquiry and Professional Development     37
What It Means to Learn     38
How to Generate New Ways of Thinking     40
Why Collaborative Inquiry Is a Better Way of Learning     43
How to Develop Leaders and Leadership     45
Summary and Implications     46
Developing and Managing theInquiry     48
The Invitation     49
The Initiation     52
The Duration     57
The Conclusion     61
Summary and Implications     65
The Facilitator/Co-inquirer Role     67
Things to Keep in Mind     68
The Role of the Facilitator     70
Facilitators or Co-facilitators     71
Facilitating the Structure of CI     73
Facilitating Participation     75
Facilitating Learning     78
Evaluating the Inquiry     80
Becoming a Co-inquirer     81
Summary and Implications     83
Conclusions     85
Benefits of CI for Participants     86
Implications of CI as Leadership Development     88
Challenges     90
Incorporating CI into School and District Development     91
Vignettes     95
How to Conduct CI as Professional Development     101
How to Conduct CI as Research     109
Notes     113
References     115
Index     119
About the Authors     127