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Praise for the First Edition: 'This book offers a challenge to all school leaders. Within its pages the reader will find no checklists on how to become a successful leader, no rehash of the tenets of leadership according to a host of theoreticians, but rather an invitation to participate in a personal journey' - "School Leadership and Management". The book presents a personal perspective on what it means to care enough to lead. It demonstrates an understanding of the role of leaders and what occurs when leaders bond with others in significant ways in the development of our schools. This book embraces the notion that leaders must establish a connection with all others in an organization in order to reflect the common core values that establishes the organization to the next moral and ethical level. This book intends to widen what it really means to be a leader and explores the yet unexplored and heretofore dimensions of moral leadership.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1431068 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-17
• Released on: 2003-04-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Review
"Caring Enough to Lead is a great book made even better in its newest edition. Pellicer's passion connects to the heart of what makes ordinary people become extra-ordinary leaders. To read and reflect on the additions to this newest edition will change your life." -- Elaine Wilmore, President The University of Texas at Arlington Caring Enough To Lead is based upon Leonard Pellicer's three-plus decades of varied experience as a professional educator. He not only has served, but he has observed and listened and recorded what he has learned. -- Richard W. Riley, Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Book Info
Text illustrates vital concepts of leadership through a series of questions, short vignettes, selected quotations, and personal stories. Features a foreward by Richard W. Riley, former U.S. Secretary of Education. For administrators, principals, teachers, and counselors. Previous edition: c1999. Softcover, hardcover available. DLC: Educational leadership--United States.

About the Author
Leonard O. Pellicer is Dean of the School of Education and Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne and Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of South Carolina. He has served in a number of teaching and leadership roles over the past thirty-five years. He served as the first director of the South Carolina Educational Policy Center, at the University of South Carolina, and was also the director of the African American Professors Program, a program designed to address the problem of a shortage of African American professors at predominantly white higher-education institutions. His experiences prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina include service as a high school and middle school teacher, high school assistant principal, high school principal, and director of a teacher education center that provided staff development opportunities for teachers and administrators in five Florida school districts. In 1986 to 1987, he was a Fullbright Scholar in Southeast Asia. During this period, he taught graduate classes at the University of the Philippines and used his expertise in school leadership to assist in developing programs to train school leaders in the region. From 1992 to 195, he spent a good deal of time in the Republic of South Africa as a member of a team that developed a field-based training program for black principals in the "new South Africa." He holds a bachelor's degree in English education and master's and doctoral degrees in educational administration from the University of Florida in Gainesville. For more than twenty-five years, he has written, consulted, and spoken extensively in the areas of school leadership, instructional leadership, and educational programs for disadvantaged students. He has coauthored two other books with Lorin Anderson for Corwin Press, including A Handbook for Teacher Leaders (1995 and Teacher Peer Assistance and Review: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Administrators (2001).