Responding to Resistance: Thirty Strategies to Manage Conflict in Your School

Educational leadership is never conflict free. In Responding to Resistance, author William A. Sommers acknowledges this reality and presents school and district leaders with a set of wide-ranging response strategies. Whether a conflict involves staff, students, parents, or other stakeholders, this book will help you address it openly, decisively, and efficiently, so you have more time to focus on what matters most: improving learning in your school community.
Use this resource to obtain approaches and guidance for managing persistent problems when other strategies do not seem to work:
Become familiar with five primary causes of conflict and four dangers of ignoring conflict.









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