Resourceful Leadership
Tradeoffs and Tough Decisions on the Road to School Improvement
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Evidence from high-performing schools shows that efficient resource use is essential for creating the conditions that support school improvement. Yet little has been written about resource use, particularly at the high school level. How can school leaders use scarce resources more efficiently? And what should their priorities be? In Resourceful Leadership, Elizabeth A. City undertakes a detailed study of two small urban high schools. She examines how tradeoffs among time, people, and money are integrated into school leaders' improvement strategies. Woven through the book is a discussion of add...
Evidence from high-performing schools shows that efficient resource use is essential for creating the conditions that support school improvement. Yet little has been written about resource use, particularly at the high school level. How can school leaders use scarce resources more efficiently? And what should their priorities be? In Resourceful Leadership, Elizabeth A. City undertakes a detailed study of two small urban high schools. She examines how tradeoffs among time, people, and money are integrated into school leaders' improvement strategies. Woven through the book is a discussion of additional intangible but essential resources: vision, trust, ideas, energy, and hope. This lively and insightful analysis brings to life the practical dilemmas and decisions school leaders face in using resources strategically. Administrators from all kinds of schools will find this book uniquely valuable. "City realizes that the important part of the story is not about the numbers--it's about the people. Within each chapter she weaves together seemingly disparate considerations such as values and beliefs, policies and funding, vision and hope. She delineates clearly the choices that each school leader makes, capturing the possibilities and the paradoxes of each step down the road." -- Larry Myatt, Founding Headmaster, Fenway High School, Boston, Mass. "District administrators often think in very narrow and traditional ways about how to use resources. By offering a rich description of the change process in two urban high schools, Resourceful Leadership opens up a dialogue about new ways to think about and use resources. Combining the 'hard' analysis of resource use with the 'soft' but equally important side of the change process (vision, hope, trust, ideas, and energy) is an important contribution. This well-written and timely book offers powerful lessons for school and district leaders." -- Jim Kushman, Director, Center for School and District Improvement, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory "Resourceful Leadership paints a rich portrait of the day-to-day complexity involved in leading school improvement. Liz City has thoughtfully woven together strands from research, practice, and policy. The result is a realistic and vivid description of the central challenges in the vitally important work of school leadership." -- Paul Reville, President, Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy; Chairman, Massachusetts State Board of Education; and Director, Education Policy and Management Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education Elizabeth A. City is a senior faculty member at Boston's School Leadership Institute, where she teachers courses in using data, learning and teaching, and staffing and professional development. City is coeditor of Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning (Harvard Education Press, 2005) and coauthor of The Teacher's Guide to Leading Student-Centered Discussions: Talking about Texts in the Classroom (Corwin Press, 2006).
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