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This book provides a new framework in how we shape our curriculum, involve our families and communities, and align our work around skills like creativity and confidence in ways that are so unlike what we do now that a revolution may be in order.In the end, that will require bold leadership and a collective search for our souls.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1- The Boy in the Back Row
Chapter 2- Discovering Our Souls
Chapter 3- The "So What" of Systems Change
Chapter 4- A Path to Self-Actualization
Chapter 5- The Possibilities of Community
Chapter 6- A Roadmap for Evolving Systems
Chapter 7- It's the Ecology, Stupid
Afterword: A Note on Leadership
References
About the Author
About the author
Daniel J. Evans is an award-winning teacher, school principal, researcher, and writer in one of the nation's largest and most innovative school districts. He is a devoted researcher in the areas of systems and complexity theory and is an ardent educational historian.
Summary
This book provides a new framework in how we shape our curriculum, involve our families and communities, and align our work around skills like creativity and confidence in ways that are so unlike what we do now that a revolution may be in order. In the end, that will require bold leadership and a collective search for our souls.
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For our educational systems to succeed in preparing young people for a rapidly changing world and unpredictable future, many recognize the urgent need to envision a redesign of our schools. The good news is that help is on the way, thanks to this compelling book, The Instructional Soul. This beautifully written, powerful, and accessible resource employs a systems thinking approach to new ways of leading, learning, and teaching and provides educational leaders with a timely blueprint of insights and bold steps to revolutionize and transform today’s school systems.
