Leading Every Day
Actions for Effective Leadership
Third Edition
Joyce S. Kaser
- WestEd, USA
Susan E. Mundry
- WestEd, USA
Katherine E. Stiles
- WestEd, USA
Susan Loucks-Horsley
- WestEd, USA
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Your shortcut to success for inspired school leadership!
Tap your greatest leadership potential and quickly get on track to meeting today’s complicated challenges with this follow up to the best-selling Learning Forward Book of the Year. Revised and updated stories, references, and quotes complement a completely new section focused on achieving results.
Effective leadership exists in us all. These short, inspiration-infused nuggets of actionable advice provide a path to get you there. New features include:
- A newly added Book 5 for help creating solid data systems and achievable results
- Over 150 convenient, closely integrated daily contemplations to carry anywhere
- Succinct, first-hand insights to proven leadership best practices that inspire, challenge, and instruct
- Up-to-date research on creative solutions to leadership challenges, change, and professional development
Build trust, spark innovation, and learn what it really takes to support a community of learners and leaders with this classic leadership resource!
“This book continues to resonate, encourage, and motivate action. It's a powerful combination of inspirational, critical, and practical guidance delivered in daily doses.”
—Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director
Learning Forward
“Every leader needs inspiration and sage advice. Leading Every Day is an almanac of practical information for leaders committed to raising the bar for themselves, their colleagues, and their shared success.”
—Karen Kearney, Leadership Initiatives
WestEd
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Book One: Leadership Every Day
- Day 1: We Are All Leaders
- Day 2: Effective Leadership Practices
- Day 3: Making Conscious Choices
- Day 4: Committing to a Moral Imperative
- Day 5: Using Power Appropriately
- Day 6: Building Shared Vision
- Day 7: Promoting Diversity
- Day 8: Leading For Results
- Day 9: Using Habits to Our Advantage
- Day 10: Generating and Sharing Knowledge
- Day 11: Keeping a Client-Centered Focus
- Day 12: Recognizing and Celebrating Success
- Day 13: Networking
- Day 14: Embracing Innovative Thinking
- Day 15: Aligning Actions and Beliefs
- Day 16: Examining Your Culture
- Day 17: Building a Trusting Climate
- Day 18: Collaborative Leadership
- Day 19: Building Relationships
- Day 20: Trying Something New
- Day 21: Coping with Ambiguity, Change, and Confusion
- Day 22: Leading Through Crisis
- Day 23: Balancing Leadership and Management
- Day 24: Living with Paradox
- Day 25: Paying Attention to Leadership Actions and Traits
- Day 26: Getting Support
- Day 27: Asking Good Questions
- Day 28: Finding Win/Win Solutions
- Day 29: Modeling Leadership
- Day 30: Ethical Leadership
- Day 31: Doing the Right Thing
- References
Book Two: Leading Change
- Day 1: Change as a Process
- Day 2: Change Happens in People First
- Day 3: The Impact of Change
- Day 4: Moving through the Stages of Change-Concerns
- Day 5: Moving through the Stages of Change-Behavior
- Day 6: Change as Continuous Improvement
- Day 7: Speed of Change
- Day 8: The Missing Piece in Change
- Day 9: Balancing Constants and Change
- Day 10: Recognizing Assumptions
- Day 11: Crafting a Shared Vision
- Day 12: Mission and Goals
- Day 13: Motivating Others
- Day 14: Planning for Change
- Day 15: Origins of Change
- Day 16: Accepting Loss
- Day 17: Dealing with Disappointment
- Day 18: Change and Resilience
- Day 19: Facing Problems
- Day 20: Neutralizing Resistance
- Day 21: Capitalizing on Resistance
- Day 22: Knowing Your Constituents
- Day 23: Managing Multiple Change Efforts
- Day 24: Systems Thinking
- Day 25: Examining Change History
- Day 26: The Downside of Change
- Day 27: Building Ownership for Change
- Day 28: Individuals as Agents of Change
- Day 29: Self-Assessment as a Change Leader
- Day 30: Sustaining Individual Leadership
- Day 31: Initiating, Implementing, and Institutionalizing Change
- References
Book Three: Leading Learning Communities
- Day 1: Leading Communities of Learning
- Day 2: Leading Learning in Organizations
- Day 3: Building Cultural Proficiency
- Day 4: Powerful Learning Experiences
- Day 5: How People Learn
- Day 6: Transformative Learning
- Day 7: Transforming Situational Learning
- Day 8: Defining Expertise
- Day 9: Characteristics of Effective Professional Learning
- Day 10: Aligning Beliefs and Behaviors
- Day 11: Designing Professional Development
- Day 12: Committing to Vision and Standards
- Day 13: Using Data to Guide Professional Development Designs
- Day 14: Inputs into Professional Development Design
- Day 15: Knowledge and Beliefs in Science and Mathematics
- Day 16: Professional Development in Context
- Day 17: Critical Issues to Consider
- Day 18: Ensuring Equity
- Day 19: Strategies for Professional Learning
- Day 20: Selecting and Combining Strategies
- Day 21: Professional Development for Student Impact
- Day 22: Balancing Philosophy and Pragmatism
- Day 23: Incorporating Reflexive Practice
- Day 24: Reaching Everyone or Scaling Up
- Day 25: Team Learning
- Day 26: Sharing Knowledge and Capturing Lessons Learned
- Day 27: Using Program Logic Models
- Day 28: Achieving Realistic Outcomes
- Day 29: Gathering Evaluation Data
- Day 30: Leading Learning by Example
- Day 31: Taking Responsibility for Learning
- References
Book Four: Leading Effective Groups
- Day 1: Leading Groups
- Day 2: Four Roles of Group Leaders
- Day 3: Group Norms of Collaboration
- Day 4: Group Norm #1—Pausing
- Day 5: Group Norm #2—Paraphrasing
- Day 6: Group Norm #3—Posing Questions
- Day 7: Group Norm #4—Putting Ideas on the Table
- Day 8: Group Norm #5—Providing Data
- Day 9: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Verbal Communication
- Day 10: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Nonverbal Communication
- Day 11: Group Norm #7—Presuming Positive Intentions
- Day 12: Dialogue Versus Discussion
- Day 13: Dialogue as Reflective Learning Process
- Day 14: Eliciting Participation From Everyone
- Day 15: Cultural Proficiency
- Day 16: Establishing Clear Roles and Functions
- Day 17: Structuring an Effective Meeting
- Day 18: Providing Logistical Supports
- Day 19: Setting Up the Meeting Room
- Day 20: Group Decision Making
- Day 21: Reaching Consensus
- Day 22: Giving Feedback
- Day 23: Receiving Feedback
- Day 24: Handling Problems
- Day 25: Options for Resolving Conflict
- Day 26: Conflict as Opportunity
- Day 27: Facilitating Conflict
- Day 28: Resolving Value Conflicts
- Day 29: Dealing with Disruptive People
- Day 30: Beginnings and Endings
- Day 31: Six Domains of Group Development
- References
Book Five: Leadership for Results
- Day 1: Results-Based Leadership
- Day 2: Role of Leader to Achieve Results
- Day 3: Using Rigorous Evidence
- Day 4: Being an Accountable Leader
- Day 5: Role of Policy in Achieving Results
- Day 6: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Day 7: Equitable Access to Data
- Day 8: Purposeful Use of Data
- Day 9: The Power of Data
- Day 10: Collaborative Inquiry
- Day 11: Engaging Everyone with Data
- Day 12: Data-Driven Dialogue
- Day 13: Root Cause Analysis
- Day 14: Cause and Effect
- Day 15: Cause and Effect Analysis: The Fishbone
- Day 16: Identifying Problems
- Day 17: Communicating about Problems
- Day 18: Criteria for Selecting Outcomes
- Day 19: Selecting the Right Intervention
- Day 20: Rapid Prototyping
- Day 21: Assessing Evaluation
- Day 22: Reflecting on Results
- Day 23: Planning for Success
- Day 24: Components of Trust
- Day 25: Keeping the Trust
- Day 26: Time Required for Results
- Day 27: Getting Better Results
- Day 28: Seeking Collective Impact
- Day 29: Sustaining a Focus on Continuous Improvement
- Day 30: Results Over Time
- Day 31: Continuing to Learn
- References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
Your shortcut to success for inspired school leadership!
Tap your greatest leadership potential and quickly get on track to meeting today’s complicated challenges with this follow up to the best-selling Learning Forward Book of the Year. Revised and updated stories, references, and quotes complement a completely new section focused on achieving results.
Effective leadership exists in us all. These short, inspiration-infused nuggets of actionable advice provide a path to get you there. New features include:
- A newly added Book 5 for help creating solid data systems and achievable results
- Over 150 convenient, closely integrated daily contemplations to carry anywhere
- Succinct, first-hand insights to proven leadership best practices that inspire, challenge, and instruct
- Up-to-date research on creative solutions to leadership challenges, change, and professional development
Build trust, spark innovation, and learn what it really takes to support a community of learners and leaders with this classic leadership resource!
“This book continues to resonate, encourage, and motivate action. It's a powerful combination of inspirational, critical, and practical guidance delivered in daily doses.”
—Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director
Learning Forward
“Every leader needs inspiration and sage advice. Leading Every Day is an almanac of practical information for leaders committed to raising the bar for themselves, their colleagues, and their shared success.”
—Karen Kearney, Leadership Initiatives
WestEd
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Book One: Leadership Every Day
- Day 1: We Are All Leaders
- Day 2: Effective Leadership Practices
- Day 3: Making Conscious Choices
- Day 4: Committing to a Moral Imperative
- Day 5: Using Power Appropriately
- Day 6: Building Shared Vision
- Day 7: Promoting Diversity
- Day 8: Leading For Results
- Day 9: Using Habits to Our Advantage
- Day 10: Generating and Sharing Knowledge
- Day 11: Keeping a Client-Centered Focus
- Day 12: Recognizing and Celebrating Success
- Day 13: Networking
- Day 14: Embracing Innovative Thinking
- Day 15: Aligning Actions and Beliefs
- Day 16: Examining Your Culture
- Day 17: Building a Trusting Climate
- Day 18: Collaborative Leadership
- Day 19: Building Relationships
- Day 20: Trying Something New
- Day 21: Coping with Ambiguity, Change, and Confusion
- Day 22: Leading Through Crisis
- Day 23: Balancing Leadership and Management
- Day 24: Living with Paradox
- Day 25: Paying Attention to Leadership Actions and Traits
- Day 26: Getting Support
- Day 27: Asking Good Questions
- Day 28: Finding Win/Win Solutions
- Day 29: Modeling Leadership
- Day 30: Ethical Leadership
- Day 31: Doing the Right Thing
- References
Book Two: Leading Change
- Day 1: Change as a Process
- Day 2: Change Happens in People First
- Day 3: The Impact of Change
- Day 4: Moving through the Stages of Change-Concerns
- Day 5: Moving through the Stages of Change-Behavior
- Day 6: Change as Continuous Improvement
- Day 7: Speed of Change
- Day 8: The Missing Piece in Change
- Day 9: Balancing Constants and Change
- Day 10: Recognizing Assumptions
- Day 11: Crafting a Shared Vision
- Day 12: Mission and Goals
- Day 13: Motivating Others
- Day 14: Planning for Change
- Day 15: Origins of Change
- Day 16: Accepting Loss
- Day 17: Dealing with Disappointment
- Day 18: Change and Resilience
- Day 19: Facing Problems
- Day 20: Neutralizing Resistance
- Day 21: Capitalizing on Resistance
- Day 22: Knowing Your Constituents
- Day 23: Managing Multiple Change Efforts
- Day 24: Systems Thinking
- Day 25: Examining Change History
- Day 26: The Downside of Change
- Day 27: Building Ownership for Change
- Day 28: Individuals as Agents of Change
- Day 29: Self-Assessment as a Change Leader
- Day 30: Sustaining Individual Leadership
- Day 31: Initiating, Implementing, and Institutionalizing Change
- References
Book Three: Leading Learning Communities
- Day 1: Leading Communities of Learning
- Day 2: Leading Learning in Organizations
- Day 3: Building Cultural Proficiency
- Day 4: Powerful Learning Experiences
- Day 5: How People Learn
- Day 6: Transformative Learning
- Day 7: Transforming Situational Learning
- Day 8: Defining Expertise
- Day 9: Characteristics of Effective Professional Learning
- Day 10: Aligning Beliefs and Behaviors
- Day 11: Designing Professional Development
- Day 12: Committing to Vision and Standards
- Day 13: Using Data to Guide Professional Development Designs
- Day 14: Inputs into Professional Development Design
- Day 15: Knowledge and Beliefs in Science and Mathematics
- Day 16: Professional Development in Context
- Day 17: Critical Issues to Consider
- Day 18: Ensuring Equity
- Day 19: Strategies for Professional Learning
- Day 20: Selecting and Combining Strategies
- Day 21: Professional Development for Student Impact
- Day 22: Balancing Philosophy and Pragmatism
- Day 23: Incorporating Reflexive Practice
- Day 24: Reaching Everyone or Scaling Up
- Day 25: Team Learning
- Day 26: Sharing Knowledge and Capturing Lessons Learned
- Day 27: Using Program Logic Models
- Day 28: Achieving Realistic Outcomes
- Day 29: Gathering Evaluation Data
- Day 30: Leading Learning by Example
- Day 31: Taking Responsibility for Learning
- References
Book Four: Leading Effective Groups
- Day 1: Leading Groups
- Day 2: Four Roles of Group Leaders
- Day 3: Group Norms of Collaboration
- Day 4: Group Norm #1—Pausing
- Day 5: Group Norm #2—Paraphrasing
- Day 6: Group Norm #3—Posing Questions
- Day 7: Group Norm #4—Putting Ideas on the Table
- Day 8: Group Norm #5—Providing Data
- Day 9: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Verbal Communication
- Day 10: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Nonverbal Communication
- Day 11: Group Norm #7—Presuming Positive Intentions
- Day 12: Dialogue Versus Discussion
- Day 13: Dialogue as Reflective Learning Process
- Day 14: Eliciting Participation From Everyone
- Day 15: Cultural Proficiency
- Day 16: Establishing Clear Roles and Functions
- Day 17: Structuring an Effective Meeting
- Day 18: Providing Logistical Supports
- Day 19: Setting Up the Meeting Room
- Day 20: Group Decision Making
- Day 21: Reaching Consensus
- Day 22: Giving Feedback
- Day 23: Receiving Feedback
- Day 24: Handling Problems
- Day 25: Options for Resolving Conflict
- Day 26: Conflict as Opportunity
- Day 27: Facilitating Conflict
- Day 28: Resolving Value Conflicts
- Day 29: Dealing with Disruptive People
- Day 30: Beginnings and Endings
- Day 31: Six Domains of Group Development
- References
Book Five: Leadership for Results
- Day 1: Results-Based Leadership
- Day 2: Role of Leader to Achieve Results
- Day 3: Using Rigorous Evidence
- Day 4: Being an Accountable Leader
- Day 5: Role of Policy in Achieving Results
- Day 6: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Day 7: Equitable Access to Data
- Day 8: Purposeful Use of Data
- Day 9: The Power of Data
- Day 10: Collaborative Inquiry
- Day 11: Engaging Everyone with Data
- Day 12: Data-Driven Dialogue
- Day 13: Root Cause Analysis
- Day 14: Cause and Effect
- Day 15: Cause and Effect Analysis: The Fishbone
- Day 16: Identifying Problems
- Day 17: Communicating about Problems
- Day 18: Criteria for Selecting Outcomes
- Day 19: Selecting the Right Intervention
- Day 20: Rapid Prototyping
- Day 21: Assessing Evaluation
- Day 22: Reflecting on Results
- Day 23: Planning for Success
- Day 24: Components of Trust
- Day 25: Keeping the Trust
- Day 26: Time Required for Results
- Day 27: Getting Better Results
- Day 28: Seeking Collective Impact
- Day 29: Sustaining a Focus on Continuous Improvement
- Day 30: Results Over Time
- Day 31: Continuing to Learn
- References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Leading Every Day
Actions for Effective Leadership
August 2013 | 288 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/01/2025 | 9781452260938 | $49.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/01/2025 | 9781483334080 | $45.00 |
Your shortcut to success for inspired school leadership!
Tap your greatest leadership potential and quickly get on track to meeting today’s complicated challenges with this follow up to the best-selling Learning Forward Book of the Year. Revised and updated stories, references, and quotes complement a completely new section focused on achieving results.
Effective leadership exists in us all. These short, inspiration-infused nuggets of actionable advice provide a path to get you there. New features include:
- A newly added Book 5 for help creating solid data systems and achievable results
- Over 150 convenient, closely integrated daily contemplations to carry anywhere
- Succinct, first-hand insights to proven leadership best practices that inspire, challenge, and instruct
- Up-to-date research on creative solutions to leadership challenges, change, and professional development
Build trust, spark innovation, and learn what it really takes to support a community of learners and leaders with this classic leadership resource!
“This book continues to resonate, encourage, and motivate action. It's a powerful combination of inspirational, critical, and practical guidance delivered in daily doses.”
—Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director
Learning Forward
“Every leader needs inspiration and sage advice. Leading Every Day is an almanac of practical information for leaders committed to raising the bar for themselves, their colleagues, and their shared success.”
—Karen Kearney, Leadership Initiatives
WestEd
Table Of Contents:
- Introduction
- Book One: Leadership Every Day
- Day 1: We Are All Leaders
- Day 2: Effective Leadership Practices
- Day 3: Making Conscious Choices
- Day 4: Committing to a Moral Imperative
- Day 5: Using Power Appropriately
- Day 6: Building Shared Vision
- Day 7: Promoting Diversity
- Day 8: Leading For Results
- Day 9: Using Habits to Our Advantage
- Day 10: Generating and Sharing Knowledge
- Day 11: Keeping a Client-Centered Focus
- Day 12: Recognizing and Celebrating Success
- Day 13: Networking
- Day 14: Embracing Innovative Thinking
- Day 15: Aligning Actions and Beliefs
- Day 16: Examining Your Culture
- Day 17: Building a Trusting Climate
- Day 18: Collaborative Leadership
- Day 19: Building Relationships
- Day 20: Trying Something New
- Day 21: Coping with Ambiguity, Change, and Confusion
- Day 22: Leading Through Crisis
- Day 23: Balancing Leadership and Management
- Day 24: Living with Paradox
- Day 25: Paying Attention to Leadership Actions and Traits
- Day 26: Getting Support
- Day 27: Asking Good Questions
- Day 28: Finding Win/Win Solutions
- Day 29: Modeling Leadership
- Day 30: Ethical Leadership
- Day 31: Doing the Right Thing
- References
- Book Two: Leading Change
- Day 1: Change as a Process
- Day 2: Change Happens in People First
- Day 3: The Impact of Change
- Day 4: Moving through the Stages of Change-Concerns
- Day 5: Moving through the Stages of Change-Behavior
- Day 6: Change as Continuous Improvement
- Day 7: Speed of Change
- Day 8: The Missing Piece in Change
- Day 9: Balancing Constants and Change
- Day 10: Recognizing Assumptions
- Day 11: Crafting a Shared Vision
- Day 12: Mission and Goals
- Day 13: Motivating Others
- Day 14: Planning for Change
- Day 15: Origins of Change
- Day 16: Accepting Loss
- Day 17: Dealing with Disappointment
- Day 18: Change and Resilience
- Day 19: Facing Problems
- Day 20: Neutralizing Resistance
- Day 21: Capitalizing on Resistance
- Day 22: Knowing Your Constituents
- Day 23: Managing Multiple Change Efforts
- Day 24: Systems Thinking
- Day 25: Examining Change History
- Day 26: The Downside of Change
- Day 27: Building Ownership for Change
- Day 28: Individuals as Agents of Change
- Day 29: Self-Assessment as a Change Leader
- Day 30: Sustaining Individual Leadership
- Day 31: Initiating, Implementing, and Institutionalizing Change
- References
- Book Three: Leading Learning Communities
- Day 1: Leading Communities of Learning
- Day 2: Leading Learning in Organizations
- Day 3: Building Cultural Proficiency
- Day 4: Powerful Learning Experiences
- Day 5: How People Learn
- Day 6: Transformative Learning
- Day 7: Transforming Situational Learning
- Day 8: Defining Expertise
- Day 9: Characteristics of Effective Professional Learning
- Day 10: Aligning Beliefs and Behaviors
- Day 11: Designing Professional Development
- Day 12: Committing to Vision and Standards
- Day 13: Using Data to Guide Professional Development Designs
- Day 14: Inputs into Professional Development Design
- Day 15: Knowledge and Beliefs in Science and Mathematics
- Day 16: Professional Development in Context
- Day 17: Critical Issues to Consider
- Day 18: Ensuring Equity
- Day 19: Strategies for Professional Learning
- Day 20: Selecting and Combining Strategies
- Day 21: Professional Development for Student Impact
- Day 22: Balancing Philosophy and Pragmatism
- Day 23: Incorporating Reflexive Practice
- Day 24: Reaching Everyone or Scaling Up
- Day 25: Team Learning
- Day 26: Sharing Knowledge and Capturing Lessons Learned
- Day 27: Using Program Logic Models
- Day 28: Achieving Realistic Outcomes
- Day 29: Gathering Evaluation Data
- Day 30: Leading Learning by Example
- Day 31: Taking Responsibility for Learning
- References
- Book Four: Leading Effective Groups
- Day 1: Leading Groups
- Day 2: Four Roles of Group Leaders
- Day 3: Group Norms of Collaboration
- Day 4: Group Norm #1—Pausing
- Day 5: Group Norm #2—Paraphrasing
- Day 6: Group Norm #3—Posing Questions
- Day 7: Group Norm #4—Putting Ideas on the Table
- Day 8: Group Norm #5—Providing Data
- Day 9: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Verbal Communication
- Day 10: Group Norm #6—Paying Attention to Self and Others, Nonverbal Communication
- Day 11: Group Norm #7—Presuming Positive Intentions
- Day 12: Dialogue Versus Discussion
- Day 13: Dialogue as Reflective Learning Process
- Day 14: Eliciting Participation From Everyone
- Day 15: Cultural Proficiency
- Day 16: Establishing Clear Roles and Functions
- Day 17: Structuring an Effective Meeting
- Day 18: Providing Logistical Supports
- Day 19: Setting Up the Meeting Room
- Day 20: Group Decision Making
- Day 21: Reaching Consensus
- Day 22: Giving Feedback
- Day 23: Receiving Feedback
- Day 24: Handling Problems
- Day 25: Options for Resolving Conflict
- Day 26: Conflict as Opportunity
- Day 27: Facilitating Conflict
- Day 28: Resolving Value Conflicts
- Day 29: Dealing with Disruptive People
- Day 30: Beginnings and Endings
- Day 31: Six Domains of Group Development
- References
- Book Five: Leadership for Results
- Day 1: Results-Based Leadership
- Day 2: Role of Leader to Achieve Results
- Day 3: Using Rigorous Evidence
- Day 4: Being an Accountable Leader
- Day 5: Role of Policy in Achieving Results
- Day 6: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Day 7: Equitable Access to Data
- Day 8: Purposeful Use of Data
- Day 9: The Power of Data
- Day 10: Collaborative Inquiry
- Day 11: Engaging Everyone with Data
- Day 12: Data-Driven Dialogue
- Day 13: Root Cause Analysis
- Day 14: Cause and Effect
- Day 15: Cause and Effect Analysis: The Fishbone
- Day 16: Identifying Problems
- Day 17: Communicating about Problems
- Day 18: Criteria for Selecting Outcomes
- Day 19: Selecting the Right Intervention
- Day 20: Rapid Prototyping
- Day 21: Assessing Evaluation
- Day 22: Reflecting on Results
- Day 23: Planning for Success
- Day 24: Components of Trust
- Day 25: Keeping the Trust
- Day 26: Time Required for Results
- Day 27: Getting Better Results
- Day 28: Seeking Collective Impact
- Day 29: Sustaining a Focus on Continuous Improvement
- Day 30: Results Over Time
- Day 31: Continuing to Learn
- References
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
"This book continues to resonate, encourage, and motivate action. It's a powerful combination of inspirational, critical, and practical guidance delivered in daily doses."
Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director, Learning Forward
"Skillful leadership requires pattern recognition and answering the question: Is this pattern productive for our group, organization or project? If not, how do I most effectively break that pattern and help those involved develop new and more productive ways of interacting? This practical and engaging book offers practical tools for leaders who want to be better creators of patterns that take hold and become the new habits in powerful groups."
Bruce Wellman, MiraVia, LLC
"Leading schools and districts today has never been more challenging. The courageous people who choose this work need thoughtful, practical strategies that are easily accessible to reflect upon and refer to throughout the year. Leading Every Day: Actions for Effective Leadership, Third Edition delivers this resource. The new addition to the book on Leadership for Results is timely and addresses an actual leadership need apparent across the country. This book is a must-have for all education leaders, both new and experienced."
Linda M. Paul, Ed.D., New Mexico School Leadership Institute
"Leading Every Day challenges all of us who work in education to be effective leaders. This book puts the power to improve leadership skills in the hands of every working educator who wants the best for his/her students, teachers, schools, and communities. The book’s organization around change, learning communities, effective groups and results is at the same time practical and stimulating. This is a book to keep on your desk for easy reference and to share with colleagues and friends."
Patricia S. Bourexis, President, The Study Group Inc.
"Leading Every Day is a staple of our principal leadership program. Each chapter elevates our students’ thinking about what it takes to become a leader in order to transform themselves and others toward a common outcome."
Dr. John W. Somers, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Indianapolis