Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity

Alan M. Blankstein - Founder, Solution Tree and HOPE Foundation, NYC
Paul D. Houston - Center for Empowered Leadership
Robert W. Cole - Educational Consultant, Edu-Data, Louisville, KY
Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity
May 2009 | 200 pages | Corwin
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Leadership Solutions

Meet the challenges of today's changing schools through shared leadership!

Today's rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.

Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:

  • The characteristics and nature of effective leadership
  • Sustainable leadership built on shared vision
  • Improving classroom teaching and student learning
  • Large-scale reforms that benefit the entire school community
  • Recruiting and developing new leaders, and much more!

This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Introduction

  • 1. What I Believe About Leadership Development
  • 2. Reconceptualizing the Road Toward Leadership Capacity
  • 3. The Moral Imperative Revisited: Achieving Large-Scale Reform
  • 4. Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning
  • 5. Liberating Leadership Potential: Designing for Leadership Growth
  • 6. Against the Odds: Successful Leadership in Challenging Schools
  • 7. Developing Leaders of Learners
  • 8. Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): The Trajectory of Young Leaders
  • 9. Developing and Sustaining Leadership Capacity

Index

Index

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Description

Leadership Solutions

Meet the challenges of today's changing schools through shared leadership!

Today's rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.

Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:

  • The characteristics and nature of effective leadership
  • Sustainable leadership built on shared vision
  • Improving classroom teaching and student learning
  • Large-scale reforms that benefit the entire school community
  • Recruiting and developing new leaders, and much more!

This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Introduction

  • 1. What I Believe About Leadership Development
  • 2. Reconceptualizing the Road Toward Leadership Capacity
  • 3. The Moral Imperative Revisited: Achieving Large-Scale Reform
  • 4. Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning
  • 5. Liberating Leadership Potential: Designing for Leadership Growth
  • 6. Against the Odds: Successful Leadership in Challenging Schools
  • 7. Developing Leaders of Learners
  • 8. Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): The Trajectory of Young Leaders
  • 9. Developing and Sustaining Leadership Capacity

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity


May 2009 | 200 pages | Corwin

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Leadership Solutions

Meet the challenges of today's changing schools through shared leadership!

Today's rapidly changing schools and educational trends present administrators and school leaders with unique challenges. This fifth volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series offers inspiring articles that examine how to sustain the achievements of school communities while building shared leadership to carry on the work of school improvement, even when facing tight budgets or a change in leadership.

Bringing together a powerful group of leading educational thinkers such as Michael Fullan, Dennis Sparks, Linda Lambert, Dean Fink, Alma Harris, and many others, this volume explores a variety of timely topics for reflection, discussion, and practice, including:

  • The characteristics and nature of effective leadership
  • Sustainable leadership built on shared vision
  • Improving classroom teaching and student learning
  • Large-scale reforms that benefit the entire school community
  • Recruiting and developing new leaders, and much more!

This book is an ideal reference for busy administrators dedicated to continued educational excellence.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. What I Believe About Leadership Development
  • 2. Reconceptualizing the Road Toward Leadership Capacity
  • 3. The Moral Imperative Revisited: Achieving Large-Scale Reform
  • 4. Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning
  • 5. Liberating Leadership Potential: Designing for Leadership Growth
  • 6. Against the Odds: Successful Leadership in Challenging Schools
  • 7. Developing Leaders of Learners
  • 8. Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): The Trajectory of Young Leaders
  • 9. Developing and Sustaining Leadership Capacity
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

This book is an important addition to other books written on leadership capacity and helps to give a clearer understanding of what leadership capacity stands for and means for the school environment as a whole. Furthermore it explains well the importance of leadership capacity in the daily work of teachers and how it can work to improve students learning. A book well suited in teaching school improvement and leadership in all settings.
Mrs Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, Faculty of Education, University of Akureyri
Very interesting book but not quite what I was looking for. Excellent read.
Mrs Catherine Keller, Pre-Paramedic Studies, Inchicore College of Further Education
Book did not contain topics I wish to cover in course
Dr Kenneth Forman, Other, Suny Stony Brook University
“Blankstein, Houston, and Cole have done a masterful job in weaving together the messages of some of the top writers in educational leadership. Their book successfully marries leadership development theory with the compelling stories of those working in the field to develop and support thoughtful and exceptional school leaders. This is a must-read for school leaders, those charged with the support and development of school leaders, or anyone interested in becoming an exceptional school leader.”
Sheila Eller, Middle School Principal, Mounds View School District, North Oaks, MN
“Leadership and institutional culture, clearly pivotal issues for school improvement, are often viewed as abstract and only marginally important issues by many educators. This book challenges these perspectives by providing provocative insights about developing leaders and about relying on them to restructure schools. The authors reinforce convictions about school improvement through real-life examples that are concurrently informative and inspirational. This book will cause principals, teachers, and other educators to reflect more deeply about their professional responsibilities and behavior.”
Theodore J. Kowalski, Kuntz Family Endowed Chair in Educational Administration, University of Dayton

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