Differentiating school leadership : facing the challenges of practice / Daniel L. Duke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Recognizing the potential for school decline -- Leadership to prevent school decline -- Identifying the characteristics of low-performing schools -- Leadership to turn around a low-performing school -- Reversing school failure is only the first step -- Leadership to sustain school improvement -- Leadership for students who need a different learning environment -- Why school leaders fail -- The implications of differentiating leadership.

Use ?organizational diagnostics? for applying differentiated leadership to four high-level priorities: preventing school decline, turning around a low-performing school, sustaining improvements, and designing a new school. (www.amazon.com)