The Servant Leader and High School Change
More Lessons from Principal to Principal
By (author) Rocky Wallace

Publication date:
16 January 2009Length of book:
104 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationDimensions:
216x148mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781578869527
Across the country, there is an urgent call for transformational high school reform. The Servant Leader and High School Change addresses the plea for secondary school reinvention, inspiring the reader to get more involved in local school improvement efforts. Wallace captures_in story form_what students, teachers, administrators, and parents have been saying for a long time: there is a simpler, more effective way to run a people-centered school. Following a struggling high school principal who has lost his way, Wallace demonstrates what can happen in one school year when a gifted mentor gets the attention of the principal who is his student and teaches him the real meaning of servant leadership, thus transforming not only the principal, but the entire school and community.
Wallace narrates a story about real-time school leadership that captures the frustration and passion, the caring and mentoring of a developing servant leader. The complex environment of K-12 schools described in this account is realistic, and the strategies for real change in personal development of a so-so administrator into a servant leader hold promise for school administrators and leader mentors.