Renegade Leadership

Creating Innovative Schools for Digital-Age Students
Brad R. Gustafson - Greenwood Elementary School (Principal)
Renegade Leadership
August 2016 | 192 pages | Corwin
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Description

Get ready to be a renegade with this how-to leadership guide.

We’re all looking for the next best app and what’s just beyond the tech horizon. But why don’t we have the same progressive appetite for pedagogy that we have for technology? Renegade leadership may just be the answer we’ve been searching for.

Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership demands a call to action in the digital age by creating student-centered instructional leadership that connects equity, culture, and technology. After reading this book, you will learn how to:

  • Apply transformational tenets of connected pedagogy to your work
  • Increase your leadership capacity in curriculum, instruction, cultural proficiency, and school improvement
  • Lead staff meetings, plan personalized professional development, and improve student learning through more responsive teaching practices

Using the latest research, vignettes from educational leaders, and profiles of inspiring renegades, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age. The only real question is…are you ready to become a renegade?

Don’t miss the free podcasts, flipped book study, and more on the Renegade Leadership website.

"Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education.  Why can’t schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?"
George Couros, Innovative teaching, learning, and leadership consultant  and Author of The Innovator’s Mindset; Alberta, Canada

"Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined."
Jon Corippo, Director of Academic Innovation, CUE

"Renegade Leadership demonstrates what student-centered schools look like in the digital age. When we get relationships and pedagogy right, we can transform the very nature of learning. This is a book our students desperately need us all to read."
Erin Klein, Scholastic Top Teacher and Michigan Teacher of the Year

Contents

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF FIGURES

FOREWORD

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION: RENEGADES NEEDED

  • What Is Renegade Leadership?
  • Why Renegade Leadership?
  • The Renegade CODE
  • Special Features
  • Outcomes
  • CHAPTER 1. RENEGADE LEADERSHIP DEFINED
  • Renegade Leadership Defined
  • Epic Fail: Neglecting to Acknowledge Standard Work
  • The Code of the West
  • The Renegade CODE
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • The Renegade Leadership Difference
  • Equity in Action
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • What Renegade Leadership Is Not
  • Real-Life Renegade: Atul Gawande
  • What Are We Saying “Yes” To?
  • Renegade Leadership Scale Directions
  • Double Down on Self-Reflection
  • CHAPTER 2. RELATIONSHIPS AND CULTURE
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Real-Life Renegade: Lucy Stone
  • Understanding School Culture
  • The Science of Accelerated Change
  • Starting a New Leadership Position
  • Equity in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Sarah Thomas
  • Traditions Perpetuate Mindsets
  • Putting People First
  • How to “Flip” Your Open House
  • Epic Fail: Putting Paperwork Before People
  • How to Reprioritize Relationships Through Relational Rounds
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Renegade Research
  • Double Down on School Culture
  • CHAPTER 3. THE RENEGADE CODE
  • The Renegade CODE
  • The Renegade CODE in Action
  • Epic Fail: Talking Technology Without the Mention of Pedagogy
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Inherently Connected
  • Understanding the Status Quo
  • Understanding State Standards
  • Real-Life Renegade: Jackson Pollock
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Renegade Research
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Creating Culture
  • Renegade Profile: Adam Welcome
  • How to Practice the Renegade CODE
  • Double Down on Modeling Connected Learning
  • CHAPTER 4. COLLABORATION FOR DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Collaboration
  • Real-Life Renegade: Rosa Parks
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Creating Culture
  • How to Start a Collaborative Podcast
  • Parent Partnerships
  • Digital-Age Communications
  • Renegade Profile: Jen Hegna
  • Understanding the Status Quo
  • Fearless Collaboration
  • Great Minds Think Differently
  • Passport to Passion
  • Equity in Action
  • Trickle-Down Collaboration
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Double Down on Collaboration
  • CHAPTER 5. OWNERSHIP: EMPOWERING DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Ownership
  • Real-Life Renegade: Patsy Sherman
  • Creating Culture
  • Epic Fail: Underestimating What Kids Are Capable Of
  • Students as Stakeholders
  • Renegade Profile: Jennie Magiera
  • Amplify Student Voice
  • Potential Pitfalls
  • Creating Student Wins
  • How to Bring Student Ownership to Board Meetings
  • The Renegade Leadership Difference
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • Traditions Perpetuate Mindsets
  • Double Down on Student Ownership
  • CHAPTER 6. DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY FOR DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Digital Connectivity
  • Real-Life Renegade: Ole Kirk Christiansen
  • Classrooms as Mirrors
  • Deeper Learning Through Flipped Instruction
  • Consider the Positives
  • How to Live-Stream a School Event
  • Transparency Transforms Learning
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Potential Pitfalls
  • Parent Partnerships
  • THINK
  • Social Media Scaffolding
  • Equity in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Daisy Dyer Duerr
  • Creating a Culture
  • How to Create a Culture of Connectedness Using a School Hashtag
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Double Down on Digital Connectivity
  • CHAPTER 7. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IS DEEPER LEARNING
  • Experiential Learning
  • Real-Life Renegade: Noah Webster
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Understanding State Standards
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • How to Facilitate Experiential Learning With Drone Technology
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Creating a Culture
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Relationships Are the Experience
  • Renegade Profile: Sandy Otto
  • Double Down on the Learning Experience
  • CHAPTER 8. INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR THE DIGITAL AGE
  • Improving Practice
  • Real-Life Renegade: Dick Fosbury
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Jill Johnson
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Improving Practice Through Conversation
  • Equity in Action
  • Epic Fail: Being Unprepared to Respond to Culturally Insensitive Comments
  • Confronting Racism Through Conversation
  • How to Hold a Culturally Responsive Conversation
  • Creating Culture
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • How to Bring MakerSpace Learning to Your School
  • How to Fund a MakerSpace
  • Transforming Learning Spaces
  • Improving Practice Through Renegade Leadership
  • Double Down on Improving Practice
  • CHAPTER 9. PERSONALIZED PD TO EMPOWER EDUCATORS
  • Microcredentialing and Digital Badges
  • Real-Life Renegade: Dave Grohl
  • Amplify Student Voice
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • Renegade Profile: Sheilah Jefferson-Isaac
  • How to Create Breakout Sessions for Staff PD
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Creating Culture
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Renegade Profile: Todd Nesloney
  • Renegade Research
  • How to Cultivate Connected PD
  • How to Organize an Edcamp
  • Bring the Edcamp Experience to Your Staff
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Putting People First
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Epic Fail: Undercommunicating Change
  • Double Down on PD
  • CHAPTER 10. ACTIVATE YOUR RENEGADE LEADERSHIP
  • Six Subtle Shifts
  • Subtle Shift 1: Help Mentor Teachers
  • Double Down on Mentoring
  • Subtle Shift 2: Make Our Own Learning Visible
  • Renegade Profile: Jon Corippo
  • Double Down on Learning
  • Subtle Shift 3: Celebrate and Support New Teachers
  • Renegade Profile: Jimmy Casas
  • Double Down on Support
  • Subtle Shift 4: Prioritize 10 Percent–Type Conversations
  • Double Down on 10 Percent–Type Conversations
  • Subtle Shift 5: Revitalize Hiring Practices
  • Double Down on Hiring
  • Subtle Shift 6: Focus on a Pedagogy That Amplifies Learning
  • Double Down on Focus
  • Call to Action

RESOURCES

RESOURCES

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

INDEX

INDEX

Description

Get ready to be a renegade with this how-to leadership guide.

We’re all looking for the next best app and what’s just beyond the tech horizon. But why don’t we have the same progressive appetite for pedagogy that we have for technology? Renegade leadership may just be the answer we’ve been searching for.

Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership demands a call to action in the digital age by creating student-centered instructional leadership that connects equity, culture, and technology. After reading this book, you will learn how to:

  • Apply transformational tenets of connected pedagogy to your work
  • Increase your leadership capacity in curriculum, instruction, cultural proficiency, and school improvement
  • Lead staff meetings, plan personalized professional development, and improve student learning through more responsive teaching practices

Using the latest research, vignettes from educational leaders, and profiles of inspiring renegades, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age. The only real question is…are you ready to become a renegade?

Don’t miss the free podcasts, flipped book study, and more on the Renegade Leadership website.

"Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education.  Why can’t schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?"
George Couros, Innovative teaching, learning, and leadership consultant  and Author of The Innovator’s Mindset; Alberta, Canada

"Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined."
Jon Corippo, Director of Academic Innovation, CUE

"Renegade Leadership demonstrates what student-centered schools look like in the digital age. When we get relationships and pedagogy right, we can transform the very nature of learning. This is a book our students desperately need us all to read."
Erin Klein, Scholastic Top Teacher and Michigan Teacher of the Year

Contents

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF FIGURES

FOREWORD

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION: RENEGADES NEEDED

  • What Is Renegade Leadership?
  • Why Renegade Leadership?
  • The Renegade CODE
  • Special Features
  • Outcomes
  • CHAPTER 1. RENEGADE LEADERSHIP DEFINED
  • Renegade Leadership Defined
  • Epic Fail: Neglecting to Acknowledge Standard Work
  • The Code of the West
  • The Renegade CODE
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • The Renegade Leadership Difference
  • Equity in Action
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • What Renegade Leadership Is Not
  • Real-Life Renegade: Atul Gawande
  • What Are We Saying “Yes” To?
  • Renegade Leadership Scale Directions
  • Double Down on Self-Reflection
  • CHAPTER 2. RELATIONSHIPS AND CULTURE
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Real-Life Renegade: Lucy Stone
  • Understanding School Culture
  • The Science of Accelerated Change
  • Starting a New Leadership Position
  • Equity in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Sarah Thomas
  • Traditions Perpetuate Mindsets
  • Putting People First
  • How to “Flip” Your Open House
  • Epic Fail: Putting Paperwork Before People
  • How to Reprioritize Relationships Through Relational Rounds
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Renegade Research
  • Double Down on School Culture
  • CHAPTER 3. THE RENEGADE CODE
  • The Renegade CODE
  • The Renegade CODE in Action
  • Epic Fail: Talking Technology Without the Mention of Pedagogy
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Inherently Connected
  • Understanding the Status Quo
  • Understanding State Standards
  • Real-Life Renegade: Jackson Pollock
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Renegade Research
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Creating Culture
  • Renegade Profile: Adam Welcome
  • How to Practice the Renegade CODE
  • Double Down on Modeling Connected Learning
  • CHAPTER 4. COLLABORATION FOR DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Collaboration
  • Real-Life Renegade: Rosa Parks
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Creating Culture
  • How to Start a Collaborative Podcast
  • Parent Partnerships
  • Digital-Age Communications
  • Renegade Profile: Jen Hegna
  • Understanding the Status Quo
  • Fearless Collaboration
  • Great Minds Think Differently
  • Passport to Passion
  • Equity in Action
  • Trickle-Down Collaboration
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Double Down on Collaboration
  • CHAPTER 5. OWNERSHIP: EMPOWERING DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Ownership
  • Real-Life Renegade: Patsy Sherman
  • Creating Culture
  • Epic Fail: Underestimating What Kids Are Capable Of
  • Students as Stakeholders
  • Renegade Profile: Jennie Magiera
  • Amplify Student Voice
  • Potential Pitfalls
  • Creating Student Wins
  • How to Bring Student Ownership to Board Meetings
  • The Renegade Leadership Difference
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • Traditions Perpetuate Mindsets
  • Double Down on Student Ownership
  • CHAPTER 6. DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY FOR DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Digital Connectivity
  • Real-Life Renegade: Ole Kirk Christiansen
  • Classrooms as Mirrors
  • Deeper Learning Through Flipped Instruction
  • Consider the Positives
  • How to Live-Stream a School Event
  • Transparency Transforms Learning
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Potential Pitfalls
  • Parent Partnerships
  • THINK
  • Social Media Scaffolding
  • Equity in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Daisy Dyer Duerr
  • Creating a Culture
  • How to Create a Culture of Connectedness Using a School Hashtag
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Double Down on Digital Connectivity
  • CHAPTER 7. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IS DEEPER LEARNING
  • Experiential Learning
  • Real-Life Renegade: Noah Webster
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Understanding State Standards
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • How to Facilitate Experiential Learning With Drone Technology
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Creating a Culture
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Relationships Are the Experience
  • Renegade Profile: Sandy Otto
  • Double Down on the Learning Experience
  • CHAPTER 8. INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR THE DIGITAL AGE
  • Improving Practice
  • Real-Life Renegade: Dick Fosbury
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Jill Johnson
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Improving Practice Through Conversation
  • Equity in Action
  • Epic Fail: Being Unprepared to Respond to Culturally Insensitive Comments
  • Confronting Racism Through Conversation
  • How to Hold a Culturally Responsive Conversation
  • Creating Culture
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • How to Bring MakerSpace Learning to Your School
  • How to Fund a MakerSpace
  • Transforming Learning Spaces
  • Improving Practice Through Renegade Leadership
  • Double Down on Improving Practice
  • CHAPTER 9. PERSONALIZED PD TO EMPOWER EDUCATORS
  • Microcredentialing and Digital Badges
  • Real-Life Renegade: Dave Grohl
  • Amplify Student Voice
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • Renegade Profile: Sheilah Jefferson-Isaac
  • How to Create Breakout Sessions for Staff PD
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Creating Culture
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Renegade Profile: Todd Nesloney
  • Renegade Research
  • How to Cultivate Connected PD
  • How to Organize an Edcamp
  • Bring the Edcamp Experience to Your Staff
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Putting People First
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Epic Fail: Undercommunicating Change
  • Double Down on PD
  • CHAPTER 10. ACTIVATE YOUR RENEGADE LEADERSHIP
  • Six Subtle Shifts
  • Subtle Shift 1: Help Mentor Teachers
  • Double Down on Mentoring
  • Subtle Shift 2: Make Our Own Learning Visible
  • Renegade Profile: Jon Corippo
  • Double Down on Learning
  • Subtle Shift 3: Celebrate and Support New Teachers
  • Renegade Profile: Jimmy Casas
  • Double Down on Support
  • Subtle Shift 4: Prioritize 10 Percent–Type Conversations
  • Double Down on 10 Percent–Type Conversations
  • Subtle Shift 5: Revitalize Hiring Practices
  • Double Down on Hiring
  • Subtle Shift 6: Focus on a Pedagogy That Amplifies Learning
  • Double Down on Focus
  • Call to Action

RESOURCES

RESOURCES

REFERENCES

REFERENCES

INDEX

INDEX

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Renegade Leadership

Creating Innovative Schools for Digital-Age Students


August 2016 | 192 pages | Corwin

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Get ready to be a renegade with this how-to leadership guide.

We’re all looking for the next best app and what’s just beyond the tech horizon. But why don’t we have the same progressive appetite for pedagogy that we have for technology? Renegade leadership may just be the answer we’ve been searching for.

Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership demands a call to action in the digital age by creating student-centered instructional leadership that connects equity, culture, and technology. After reading this book, you will learn how to:

  • Apply transformational tenets of connected pedagogy to your work
  • Increase your leadership capacity in curriculum, instruction, cultural proficiency, and school improvement
  • Lead staff meetings, plan personalized professional development, and improve student learning through more responsive teaching practices

Using the latest research, vignettes from educational leaders, and profiles of inspiring renegades, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age. The only real question is…are you ready to become a renegade?

Don’t miss the free podcasts, flipped book study, and more on the Renegade Leadership website.

"Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education.  Why can’t schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?"
George Couros, Innovative teaching, learning, and leadership consultant  and Author of The Innovator’s Mindset; Alberta, Canada

"Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined."
Jon Corippo, Director of Academic Innovation, CUE

"Renegade Leadership demonstrates what student-centered schools look like in the digital age. When we get relationships and pedagogy right, we can transform the very nature of learning. This is a book our students desperately need us all to read."
Erin Klein, Scholastic Top Teacher and Michigan Teacher of the Year


Table Of Contents:

  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • INTRODUCTION: RENEGADES NEEDED
  • What Is Renegade Leadership?
  • Why Renegade Leadership?
  • The Renegade CODE
  • Special Features
  • Outcomes
  • CHAPTER 1. RENEGADE LEADERSHIP DEFINED
  • Renegade Leadership Defined
  • Epic Fail: Neglecting to Acknowledge Standard Work
  • The Code of the West
  • The Renegade CODE
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • The Renegade Leadership Difference
  • Equity in Action
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • What Renegade Leadership Is Not
  • Real-Life Renegade: Atul Gawande
  • What Are We Saying “Yes” To?
  • Renegade Leadership Scale Directions
  • Double Down on Self-Reflection
  • CHAPTER 2. RELATIONSHIPS AND CULTURE
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Real-Life Renegade: Lucy Stone
  • Understanding School Culture
  • The Science of Accelerated Change
  • Starting a New Leadership Position
  • Equity in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Sarah Thomas
  • Traditions Perpetuate Mindsets
  • Putting People First
  • How to “Flip” Your Open House
  • Epic Fail: Putting Paperwork Before People
  • How to Reprioritize Relationships Through Relational Rounds
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Renegade Research
  • Double Down on School Culture
  • CHAPTER 3. THE RENEGADE CODE
  • The Renegade CODE
  • The Renegade CODE in Action
  • Epic Fail: Talking Technology Without the Mention of Pedagogy
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Inherently Connected
  • Understanding the Status Quo
  • Understanding State Standards
  • Real-Life Renegade: Jackson Pollock
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Renegade Research
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Creating Culture
  • Renegade Profile: Adam Welcome
  • How to Practice the Renegade CODE
  • Double Down on Modeling Connected Learning
  • CHAPTER 4. COLLABORATION FOR DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Collaboration
  • Real-Life Renegade: Rosa Parks
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Creating Culture
  • How to Start a Collaborative Podcast
  • Parent Partnerships
  • Digital-Age Communications
  • Renegade Profile: Jen Hegna
  • Understanding the Status Quo
  • Fearless Collaboration
  • Great Minds Think Differently
  • Passport to Passion
  • Equity in Action
  • Trickle-Down Collaboration
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Double Down on Collaboration
  • CHAPTER 5. OWNERSHIP: EMPOWERING DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Ownership
  • Real-Life Renegade: Patsy Sherman
  • Creating Culture
  • Epic Fail: Underestimating What Kids Are Capable Of
  • Students as Stakeholders
  • Renegade Profile: Jennie Magiera
  • Amplify Student Voice
  • Potential Pitfalls
  • Creating Student Wins
  • How to Bring Student Ownership to Board Meetings
  • The Renegade Leadership Difference
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • Traditions Perpetuate Mindsets
  • Double Down on Student Ownership
  • CHAPTER 6. DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY FOR DIGITAL-AGE STUDENTS
  • Digital Connectivity
  • Real-Life Renegade: Ole Kirk Christiansen
  • Classrooms as Mirrors
  • Deeper Learning Through Flipped Instruction
  • Consider the Positives
  • How to Live-Stream a School Event
  • Transparency Transforms Learning
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Potential Pitfalls
  • Parent Partnerships
  • THINK
  • Social Media Scaffolding
  • Equity in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Daisy Dyer Duerr
  • Creating a Culture
  • How to Create a Culture of Connectedness Using a School Hashtag
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Double Down on Digital Connectivity
  • CHAPTER 7. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IS DEEPER LEARNING
  • Experiential Learning
  • Real-Life Renegade: Noah Webster
  • Relationships and Connectedness
  • Understanding State Standards
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • How to Facilitate Experiential Learning With Drone Technology
  • Where Pedagogy Meets Innovation
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Creating a Culture
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Relationships Are the Experience
  • Renegade Profile: Sandy Otto
  • Double Down on the Learning Experience
  • CHAPTER 8. INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR THE DIGITAL AGE
  • Improving Practice
  • Real-Life Renegade: Dick Fosbury
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Renegade Profile: Jill Johnson
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Improving Practice Through Conversation
  • Equity in Action
  • Epic Fail: Being Unprepared to Respond to Culturally Insensitive Comments
  • Confronting Racism Through Conversation
  • How to Hold a Culturally Responsive Conversation
  • Creating Culture
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • How to Bring MakerSpace Learning to Your School
  • How to Fund a MakerSpace
  • Transforming Learning Spaces
  • Improving Practice Through Renegade Leadership
  • Double Down on Improving Practice
  • CHAPTER 9. PERSONALIZED PD TO EMPOWER EDUCATORS
  • Microcredentialing and Digital Badges
  • Real-Life Renegade: Dave Grohl
  • Amplify Student Voice
  • True Learner Empowerment
  • Renegade Profile: Sheilah Jefferson-Isaac
  • How to Create Breakout Sessions for Staff PD
  • Instructional Leadership in Action
  • Creating Culture
  • Modeling the Renegade CODE
  • Renegade Profile: Todd Nesloney
  • Renegade Research
  • How to Cultivate Connected PD
  • How to Organize an Edcamp
  • Bring the Edcamp Experience to Your Staff
  • Creating Student Wins
  • Putting People First
  • Best Practice and Innovation
  • Epic Fail: Undercommunicating Change
  • Double Down on PD
  • CHAPTER 10. ACTIVATE YOUR RENEGADE LEADERSHIP
  • Six Subtle Shifts
  • Subtle Shift 1: Help Mentor Teachers
  • Double Down on Mentoring
  • Subtle Shift 2: Make Our Own Learning Visible
  • Renegade Profile: Jon Corippo
  • Double Down on Learning
  • Subtle Shift 3: Celebrate and Support New Teachers
  • Renegade Profile: Jimmy Casas
  • Double Down on Support
  • Subtle Shift 4: Prioritize 10 Percent–Type Conversations
  • Double Down on 10 Percent–Type Conversations
  • Subtle Shift 5: Revitalize Hiring Practices
  • Double Down on Hiring
  • Subtle Shift 6: Focus on a Pedagogy That Amplifies Learning
  • Double Down on Focus
  • Call to Action
  • RESOURCES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

Recent Product Reviews:

Brad provides an interesting and enthusiastic perspective to instructional leadership for digital-native students in the 21st century. This is a must-read for all K-12 administrators who are trying to develop connectedness between faculty, students, curriculum, and technology.
Travis Thurston, Utah State University
Renegade Leadership has the most comprehensive companion website I've seen. It offers flipped videos, community forum components, and diverse opportunities to extend educators’ learning as far as they choose. The book and website together provide extensive and intensive personalized professional development that readers will want to dive into over and over again.
Jason Bretzmann, Teacher and Author of Flipping 2.0 and Personalized PD
In Renegade Leadership, Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined. Renegade Leadership is there for everyone to partake - you just have to decide to commit.
Jon Corippo, Director of Academic Innovation, CUE
It is important that we start to think differently about leadership. Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education. If we do change right, schools can be a place where we are not just trying to catch up to the innovation around us, but we can be leading it for the entire world. Think about it . . . why can’t schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?
George Couros, Innovative teaching, learning, and leadership consultant and Author of The Innovator’s Mindset
"Renegade Leadership is a gold mine of inspiring stories, practical ideas and authentic examples of school transformation. It's a book that all educators should read, as we can all be leaders in improving schools no matter what our title or position."
Jennie Magiera, Author of Courageous Edventures

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