Books by Perry R. Rettig

American universities were not designed to be nimble and responsive to the changes necessary to meet today's challenges. The Quantum University describes lessons learned from the contemporary sciences which can then serve as guide posts to help our university leaders meet these challenges.

This book helps the reader find that correct balance of authority across the governance groups by empowering all groups within a common framework and understanding.

Assuming the Mantel of Leadership is a book of real-life case studies and activities that allows the reader to respond to the cases and activities by utilizing and reflecting upon their own institution's policies and context.

Reframing Decision Making in Education begins by describing the current status of American schools and concludes with a description of the organizational structure, leadership, and decision making practices necessary to make our schools operate in a manner congruent with those democratic principles we espouse as a country.

As a professor of educational administration/leadership and as a former school leader, Perry Rettig found himself extremely dissatisfied with the dry, passive, and detached textbooks for such programs. He also found that the students in his programs had been disappointed, too. While traditional texts do a good job of detailing theory and conceptual models important to school leadership, these same theories and constructs are taught without any real-life and meaningful interaction. Practicing Principals is an interactive book that demands that students experience and thoughtfully analyze these theories and constructs in actual, real-life situations before they take on the job. Students, professors, school boards, professional organizations, and the administrators themselves are demanding that university programs become more authentic. With Practicing Principals, Rettig gives the novice the opportunity to practice how they would handle real-life situations and then analyze their work with their peers, their professors, and even their own building administrators.

This work theorizes that models based on the classical sciences have misguided educational leadership. Dr Rettig shows his critique of the school administration structure with the story of Leslie O'Connor, a fictional administrator, who makes her way through familiar-seeming training techniques.