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Build a school where students flourish academically while also meeting their social and emotional learning needs. In this practical school leadership book, author Jane A. G. Kise offers a toolkit of strategies specially designed to support the leadership development goals and daily work of school leaders. Learn how to overcome ongoing school leadership challenges, navigate competing priorities, and unite your entire school community around one common purpose: supporting whole-child learning.
Lead schools in teaching the whole student, with help from this educational leadership book: - Understand the benefits of student engagement and having the whole child present in the classroom.
- Study the twelve lenses of school leadership -- core educational leadership responsibilities that are essential for leading whole-child schools.
- Overcome biases and balance student and adult needs by developing leadership skills and emotional intelligence.
- Learn how effective educational leadership goal-setting can create an environment strengthened by collaborative trust, where students and educators feel engaged and motivated.
- Gain insight into SMART goal-setting for leadership development, establishing a priority focus to achieve real goals.
Contents: Introduction
Chapter 1: Developing Leadership for Whole-Child Schools
Chapter 2: Thinking in Terms of Both
and And: A Core Leadership Competency
Chapter 3: Understanding Emotional Intelligence
and Leading for the Whole Child
Chapter 4: Leading Toward a Common Vision
and Guiding Others in Leading Themselves
Chapter 5: Implementing Initiatives
and Making Them Meaningful
Chapter 6: Building a Collaborative Learning Community
and Ensuring That Individuals Have Autonomy
Chapter 7: Taking Reality Into Account
and Pursuing a Vision
Chapter 8: Building on Current Success
and Changing to Meet the Future
Chapter 9: Moving Ahead Quickly
and Moving Ahead for the Long Haul
Chapter 10: Balancing Logical Objectivity
and Valuable Subjectivity
Chapter 11: Getting Results
and Building Trust
Chapter 12: Effectively Using Positional Power
and Sharing Power
Chapter 13: Having Clarity on What and Why
and Having Flexibility on How
Chapter 14: Planning for the Predictable
and Embracing the Possible
Chapter 15: Making Measurable Whole-Child Achievement Progress
and Finding Purpose
Chapter 16: Focusing on Your Priorities
Appendix: Personality Type and the Lenses of Leadership
