Out-of-the-Box Leadership

Paul D. Houston - Center for Empowered Leadership
Alan M. Blankstein - Founder, Solution Tree and HOPE Foundation, NYC
Robert W. Cole - Educational Consultant, Edu-Data, Louisville, KY
Out-of-the-Box Leadership
May 2007 | 184 pages | Corwin
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Develop a leadership style that inspires an entire school community to achieve high goals!

In this second volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines research, reflective exercises, and day-to-day school leadership procedures for motivating students and providing meaningful cultural change in school communities.

An ideal handbook for principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and district administrators, this copublication with AASA and the HOPE Foundation discusses:

  • Developing high-quality leadership
  • Inspiring transformative leadership
  • Embracing leadership alternatives
  • Evaluating current school reform practices
  • Meeting the challenges in leadership roles

Out-of-the-Box Leadership is the perfect guide to help administrators rethink, reshape, and strengthen their leadership styles and provide confident, focused direction that will help build real success for students and all members of the school community.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Preface

  • 1. Out-of-the-Box Leadership
  • 2. What It Means to Be an Outside-the-Box Leader
  • 3. Caring, Serving…Leading
  • 4. An Epistemological Problem: What If We Have the Wrong Theory?
  • 5. Reflections on Leadership: When Minds and Hearts Are Open
  • 6. Out-of-the-Box Leadership: A Reflection on Leading Educational Transformation
  • 7. Through Others’ Eyes: A Collaborative Model of Leadership
  • 8. Embracing the Enemy: Moving Beyond the Pain of Leadership
  • Index

Additional materials

Description

Develop a leadership style that inspires an entire school community to achieve high goals!

In this second volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines research, reflective exercises, and day-to-day school leadership procedures for motivating students and providing meaningful cultural change in school communities.

An ideal handbook for principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and district administrators, this copublication with AASA and the HOPE Foundation discusses:

  • Developing high-quality leadership
  • Inspiring transformative leadership
  • Embracing leadership alternatives
  • Evaluating current school reform practices
  • Meeting the challenges in leadership roles

Out-of-the-Box Leadership is the perfect guide to help administrators rethink, reshape, and strengthen their leadership styles and provide confident, focused direction that will help build real success for students and all members of the school community.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Preface

  • 1. Out-of-the-Box Leadership
  • 2. What It Means to Be an Outside-the-Box Leader
  • 3. Caring, Serving…Leading
  • 4. An Epistemological Problem: What If We Have the Wrong Theory?
  • 5. Reflections on Leadership: When Minds and Hearts Are Open
  • 6. Out-of-the-Box Leadership: A Reflection on Leading Educational Transformation
  • 7. Through Others’ Eyes: A Collaborative Model of Leadership
  • 8. Embracing the Enemy: Moving Beyond the Pain of Leadership
  • Index

Additional materials

May 2007 | 184 pages | Corwin

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Hardcover 27/02/2023 9781412938457 $79.95
Paperback 01/02/2026 9781412938464 $37.95
Lifetime 01/02/2026 9781452293523 $35.00

Develop a leadership style that inspires an entire school community to achieve high goals!

In this second volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines research, reflective exercises, and day-to-day school leadership procedures for motivating students and providing meaningful cultural change in school communities.

An ideal handbook for principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and district administrators, this copublication with AASA and the HOPE Foundation discusses:

  • Developing high-quality leadership
  • Inspiring transformative leadership
  • Embracing leadership alternatives
  • Evaluating current school reform practices
  • Meeting the challenges in leadership roles

Out-of-the-Box Leadership is the perfect guide to help administrators rethink, reshape, and strengthen their leadership styles and provide confident, focused direction that will help build real success for students and all members of the school community.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Out-of-the-Box Leadership
  • 2. What It Means to Be an Outside-the-Box Leader
  • 3. Caring, Serving…Leading
  • 4. An Epistemological Problem: What If We Have the Wrong Theory?
  • 5. Reflections on Leadership: When Minds and Hearts Are Open
  • 6. Out-of-the-Box Leadership: A Reflection on Leading Educational Transformation
  • 7. Through Others’ Eyes: A Collaborative Model of Leadership
  • 8. Embracing the Enemy: Moving Beyond the Pain of Leadership
  • Index

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Relevant to the objectives of the course syllabus
Dr Robert Berardi, Education Dept, Northeastern University
"Contributes current and powerful information in a clear and concise format that is much needed for principals and superintendents to function productively in the current educational environment."
Chuck Bonner, Assistant Principal, Great Valley High School, Malvern, PA

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