Assessing Educational Leaders
Evaluating Performance for Improved Individual and Organizational Results

Second Edition

Edited by:

Douglas B. Reeves - Creative Leadership Solutions

Other Titles in:
Leadership & Management Development | Local Authorities | Staff Supervision/Evaluation/Retention

September 2008 | 240 pages | Corwin

This revised edition of the bestseller by Douglas B. Reeves contains the information and tools necessary to successfully evaluate all types of educational leaders and improve individual and organizational performance. Based on research, theory, and best practices of leadership, organizational effectiveness, and personnel evaluation, this book focuses on three critical concepts:

Leadership has a dramatic impact on student achievement, equity, and staff morale

Leadership effectiveness includes both personal predispositions and acquired knowledge skills

Leadership evaluation is intended to improve personal and organizational performance, not merely to render an assessment.

Introduction

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Why Leadership Evaluation Is Broken

The Knowing-Doing Gap

Progress in Leadership Evaluation

Ambiguous Leadership Standards

Incoherent Leadership Evaluations

Authority-Responsibility Disequilibrium

A Better Way: Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

2. Reframing Leadership Evaluation

Patrick's Choice

A New Vision of Educational Accountability

Criteria for Multidimensional Leadership Assessment (MLA)

Implications of a New Vision for Leadership Evaluation

3. Moving Beyond One-Dimensional Leadership Evaluation

The Prevalence of One-Dimensional Evaluation

Leadership Is More Than Test Scores

Leadership Is More Than Popularity

Leadership Is More Than Obedience

4. Creating an Improved Leadership Evaluation System

Domains of Leadership Performance

Leadership Performance Standards

Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

5. Using Evaluation to Improve Performance

The Capacity-Building Continuum

The Challenge Continuum

The Coaching Continuum

The Counseling Continuum

Defining Performance: The Key to Using the Continua

6. Developing a Multidimensional Leadership Assessment System

Leadership Domains

Leadership Performance

Leadership Assessment as a Research Goldmine

Organizational Goals, Values, Priorities

The Performance Continuum

Qualitative Information: The Lens for Understanding Quantitative Data

Reflection and Self-Regulation

7. Building the Next Generation of Educational Leaders

The Leadership Development Imperative

Prototype for a Leadership Development System

Authentic Assessment for Future Leaders

8. Leading Leaders

The Coaching Conundrum: Results of Antecedents?

Inquiry and Hypothesis Testing

Applying MLA Throughout the Organization

9. Improving Leadership Evaluation With Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

Analyze the Present Evaluation System

Create Dimensions of Leadership

Specify Performance Levels

Field Test the Instrument at Multiple Levels

Implement Throughout the Organization

Share Results With Universities and Research Institutions

Use MLA for Training, Recruiting, and Developing Leaders

Conclusion: Finding Answers Inside

10. Hallmarks of Excellence

11. Leadership Responsibilities for Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring

Resource A: The Leadership Performance Matrix

Resource B: National Leadership Survey Results

Resource C: Leadership Evaluation Survey

Resource D: The Gap Between What Leaders Know and What They Do

Resource E: Principal Evaluation Rubrics

Resource F: Leadership Professional Growth Matrix

References

Index

"Without question, Reeves indeed provides readers with insight in evaluating performance for improved individual and organizational results. The book makes a distinct contribution to the field of education."

Kenneth M. Arndt, Superintendent

Community Unit School District 300, Carpentersville, IL

"The book is a great contribution on a very critical topic. It provides an excellent guide for developing a system and having important conversations with the leadership team."

Rene S. Townsend, Principal of Leadership Associates

Price Charities

Praise for the First Edition:
“This book touches on critical aspects of motivating your staff. Standards-based and truthful characteristics are employed to make it even more worthwhile.”

Principal Navigator, May 2008

Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators