Print Resources for Educational Leadership
2009–2011 SJSU Ed Leadership MA/Tier I Program

Required Texts:

Program Textbook (all four semesters):

  • Hoy, Wayne K. & Miskel, Cecil G. (2008). Educational administration: theory, research and practice. 8th edition. NY: McGraw Hill Higher Education. ISBN: 978-0-07-340374-8

Additional Required Texts (which may vary by professor):

  • Fall 2009: EdAd 200–201:
    • Lambert, Linda (2003). Leadership capacity for lasting school improvement. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. ISBN: 978-0-87120-778-4
  • Winter-Spring 2010: EdAd 202:
    • DuFour, Richard, DuFour, Rebecca, Eaker & Robert, 2008. Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work, New Insights for Improving Schools. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press. ISBN 978-1-934009-32-1 (10th Anniversary Edition).
    • Hill, Jane D. & Flynn, Kathleen M., 2006. Classroom Instruction That Works for English Language Learners. Alexandria, VA:ASCD.
    • Meier, Deborah, 1995. The Power of Their Ideas. Boston:Beacon Press.

Recommended Texts:

  • Kouzes, James & Posner, Barry Z. (2007). The Leadership Challenge 4th edition.
  • Arriaza, G. & Reis, N. (2006). Dense Leadership. (Available online at ceas.csueastbay.edu/crosscurrents/facultyfiles/Gilberto_Arriaza/Arriaza%20y%20Mendoza.pdf)
  • APA (2009). Concise Rules of APA Style Washington, DC:American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1-4338-0560-8 (Information available online at www.apastyle.org/products/4210004.aspx)
  • Evans, Robert & Sergiovanni, Thomas (). Moral Leadership: The Authentic Leader CITY:PUB. ISBN: NNN
  • Gadwell, Malcom (2000). Tipping Point: How little things make a big difference Boston:Little Brown & Co.. ISBN: 0-316-34662-4 (pb)
  • Katzenmeyer, Marilyn & Moller, Gayle (2009). Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Helping teachers develop as leaders Thousand Oaks, CA:Corwin Press. 3rd edition, ISBN: 978-1-4129-6040-3
  • Schrag, Peter (2007). Schoolhouse Crock: Fifty years of blaming america’s educational system for our stupidity. CITY:PUB. ISBN: NNN Available online at www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/0081684 (subscribers only).
  • Sergiovanni, Thomas (2004, 2000). The Lifeworld of Leadership: Creating Culture, Community and Personal Meaning in Our Schools San Francisco:Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 0-7879-7277-0

Recommended Online Resources

See Online Resources page.

Recommended Readings

Four articles recommended by Professor Reis, from Coaching Leaders to Attaing Student Success, from the New Teacher Center at UC Santa Cruz:

 

 

 

Additional Recommended Reading:

Thomas Sergiovanni

Thomas Sergiovanni

“Why is community building so important to schools? Community is the tie that binds students and teachers in special ways, to something more significant than themselves: shared ideas and ideals. It lifts both teachers and students to higher levels of self-understanding, commitment, and performance, beyond the reaches of the shortcomings and difficulties they face in their everyday lives. Community can help teachers and students be transformed from a collection of ‘Is’ to a collective ‘we,’ thus providing them with a unique and enduring sense of identity, belonging, and place.” Thomas Sergiovanni has spent the greater part of his long career in education studying the importance of community building on schools and students.

Sergiovanni is Lillian Radford Professor of Education and Administration at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Prior to joining the Trinity faculty, he was, for eighteen years, Professor of Educational Administration and Supervision at the University of Illinois. Former associate editor of Educational Administration Quarterly, Dr. Sergiovanni serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Education Research, The Journal of Curriculum and Supervision and the Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education. He has broad interests in the areas of school leadership and the supervision and evaluation of teaching.

“Successful community building,” says Sergiovanni, “depends in large measure, on each individual school defining for itself its own life and creating for itself its own practice of schooling. This inside-out strategy requires a considerable amount of searching and reflection, as teachers struggle with such issues as who they are, what they hope to become for the students they serve, and how they will decide organize, teach, learn, and live together.” (These three paragraphs from www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/thomas-sergiovanni.)

Sergiovanni’s books include (links to amazon.com):