Robert Palestini Ed D: 13 books
Going Back to the Future
A Leadership Journey for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
It was Edmund Burke, the British Statesman and philosopher, who said that those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. In this book, at least as far as educational leadership is concerned, Robert Palestini helps ensure that we do not fall into the trap of ignoring history. Dr. Palestini...
Law and American Education
An Instructor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Educators working with Palestini's textbook Law and American Education: a Case Brief Approach will find this comprehensive pedagogical tool useful. It contains the full briefs for the cases excerpted in the text, as well as diacritical and pedagogical suggestions. In addition to chapter-by-chapter...
Practical Leadership Strategies
Lessons from the World of Professional Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
This book details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and discussion of how their behavior was informed by leadership theory. Robert Palestini describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering...
The Human Touch in Education Leadership
A Postpositivist Approach to Understanding Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Palestini advances a new theory of educational leadership seen through the dual lens of critical theory and the Ignatian vision and its practical implications. A truly novel approach, the author strives to acquaint administrators and students of educational administration with a different way of thinking...
Leadership with a Conscience
Educational Leadership as a Moral Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful...
Law and American Education
A Case Brief Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This third edition expands coverage on such topics as the law and students with disabilities, confidentiality, sexual harassment, student searches and tuition vouchers. It also includes some new topics such as bullying, copyright law, and the law and the internet.
Both public and nonpublic...
Cultural Differences in Educational Leadership
Lessons from Heaven's Messengers, Melting Pot or Not!
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Leaders and aspiring leaders from all over the world are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities...
by Robert Palestini Ed.D
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful...
Feminist Theory and Educational Leadership
Much Ado About Something!
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
“Who is an effective leader?” has been a question posed by scholars, educators and practitioners of leadership for centuries. Historically, leadership positions, as well as research on leadership and effective leadership, was primarily reserved for men or masculine characteristics With most societies...
Educational Administration
Leading with Mind and Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Educational Administration: Leading with Mind and Heart, 2nd edition takes an organization-development approach to producing effective leadership. Picture yourself standing in the middle of a dense forest. Suppose you were asked to describe the characteristics of the forest; what types of trees are...
A Ten-Minute Approach to Educational Leadership
A Handbook of Insights for All Level Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Educational leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for ways to improve the functioning of their institutions. This book provides them with a unique approach to diagnosing a school, school system or college’s organizational health and determining what interventions might be necessary...
No Laughing Matter
The Value of Humor in Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Educators are not alone in perennially seeking the best leadership practices and applying them to their own leadership behavior. What constitutes effective leadership seems to be on the minds of people everywhere. Recently, there has been some seminal work done with regard to the role of humor in...
Educational Administration
Leading with Mind and Heart
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Newly appointed school administrators are often confused when faced with the prospect of having to assume a leadership role in a complex organization like a school or school system. Where does one start? An effective method would be to systematically examine the vital components that make up an organization....