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An unprecedented leadership challenge for school administrators
Today’s school leaders face the unprecedented challenge of leading five generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and brand-new Generation Z teachers, along with Gen Alpha, today’s youngest students. Based on extensive research and the author’s experience working with thousands of educators and students, 5-Gen Leadership addresses the nuances and expectations implicit with leading each generation. With an emphasis on developing a multi-generational lens through which to view school improvement, this book covers topics such as recruiting and retaining today’s young teachers, tailoring professional development for each generation, and helping each generation succeed in a complex, accelerating world. Readers will also find:
- Tactics for transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership and understanding the four distinct generations in the teaching staff
- Moving leadership styles from a managing model to a coaching model
- Advice for understanding and creating a welcoming environment for Gen Z and Gen Alpha
- Suggestions for closing the digital generation gaps that emerged during the COVID-19 school closures
- A glimpse into the future to imagine how new generations of leaders will help reshape schools by 2030
If we’re going to make the most of reforming our schools in the 2020s and keep up with the exponential rate of change in society we must understand today’s students and the four disparate generations in our staffs. This book is critical to help leaders bridge those gaps.
“How do we prepare today’s students for the rapidly changing workplace and society in which they will live, work, and interact in an education system designed for a century that has passed us by? In 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Mark White clearly provides a well-lit path to assist educators to successfully make the necessary cultural, structural and instructional changes that are needed.”
-Bill Daggett, Founder
International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE)
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: From Boomers to Alphas
- Understanding the Four Generations in Staffs Today
- Two Groups Are Trying to Lead, and Two Groups Are Trying to Fit In. Sort of . . .
- Millennial Teachers Are Walking Away
- Making Generational Adjustments
- Trouble in the Gen Z Teaching Pipeline
- Recruiting Gen Z Teachers
- Take Steps Now to Become a 5-Gen Leader
- And After We Recruit and Retain Them . . .
- Chapter 2: The Impact of the Silent Generation and Gen Alpha
- Lessons From the Silent Generation
- Gen Alpha, the New Generation
- Gen Alpha’s Impact on Education
- The Transcendent Power of Relationships
- Chapter 3: Moving From Managing to Coaching
- The Challenge of Transitioning to a New Model
- Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas: Handle With Care
- Coaching Into Grit and Professionalism
- Rethinking Evaluations
- New Channels for Communication
- Chapter 4: Teaching Distracted Generations
- Our Evolving Brains
- Distracted Students, Distracted Teachers
- Clues in the News
- Chapter 5: Tactics for Creating Multigenerational PD
- Acknowledging the PD Problem
- A Global Leadership Question: “How Do We Train These Different Generations?”
- Relevancy in PD
- Finding the Generations in the Staff
- Mind the Gap!
- Presentation Methods for Teacher Z
- Chapter 6 Generational Lessons of COVID-19
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha: The New Lost Generations?
- The New Digital Divide
- A Flipping of the Paradigm
- Adjusting Mindsets
- Advice for Changing Mindsets
- The Digital Gap in Administrators
- Chapter 7: Upagers and Political Activism
- Gen Z Survivors Leading the Way on Gun Reform
- Gen Z Leading the Way in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
- Lessons From a University Protest
- The Coming of the Minority Majority
- Chapter 8: Millennials and Gen Z Ascending in the 2020s
- Four Key Points and Questions for the 2020s
- The University Model Could Affect the PreK-12 Model
- New Paths to Leadership
- The Future: Millennial Teachers, Gen Z Teachers, and AI Teachers?
- Being Human in the 2020s
50 Tips for Transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership
50 Tips for Transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership
References
References
Additional materials
Description
An unprecedented leadership challenge for school administrators
Today’s school leaders face the unprecedented challenge of leading five generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and brand-new Generation Z teachers, along with Gen Alpha, today’s youngest students. Based on extensive research and the author’s experience working with thousands of educators and students, 5-Gen Leadership addresses the nuances and expectations implicit with leading each generation. With an emphasis on developing a multi-generational lens through which to view school improvement, this book covers topics such as recruiting and retaining today’s young teachers, tailoring professional development for each generation, and helping each generation succeed in a complex, accelerating world. Readers will also find:
- Tactics for transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership and understanding the four distinct generations in the teaching staff
- Moving leadership styles from a managing model to a coaching model
- Advice for understanding and creating a welcoming environment for Gen Z and Gen Alpha
- Suggestions for closing the digital generation gaps that emerged during the COVID-19 school closures
- A glimpse into the future to imagine how new generations of leaders will help reshape schools by 2030
If we’re going to make the most of reforming our schools in the 2020s and keep up with the exponential rate of change in society we must understand today’s students and the four disparate generations in our staffs. This book is critical to help leaders bridge those gaps.
“How do we prepare today’s students for the rapidly changing workplace and society in which they will live, work, and interact in an education system designed for a century that has passed us by? In 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Mark White clearly provides a well-lit path to assist educators to successfully make the necessary cultural, structural and instructional changes that are needed.”
-Bill Daggett, Founder
International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE)
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: From Boomers to Alphas
- Understanding the Four Generations in Staffs Today
- Two Groups Are Trying to Lead, and Two Groups Are Trying to Fit In. Sort of . . .
- Millennial Teachers Are Walking Away
- Making Generational Adjustments
- Trouble in the Gen Z Teaching Pipeline
- Recruiting Gen Z Teachers
- Take Steps Now to Become a 5-Gen Leader
- And After We Recruit and Retain Them . . .
- Chapter 2: The Impact of the Silent Generation and Gen Alpha
- Lessons From the Silent Generation
- Gen Alpha, the New Generation
- Gen Alpha’s Impact on Education
- The Transcendent Power of Relationships
- Chapter 3: Moving From Managing to Coaching
- The Challenge of Transitioning to a New Model
- Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas: Handle With Care
- Coaching Into Grit and Professionalism
- Rethinking Evaluations
- New Channels for Communication
- Chapter 4: Teaching Distracted Generations
- Our Evolving Brains
- Distracted Students, Distracted Teachers
- Clues in the News
- Chapter 5: Tactics for Creating Multigenerational PD
- Acknowledging the PD Problem
- A Global Leadership Question: “How Do We Train These Different Generations?”
- Relevancy in PD
- Finding the Generations in the Staff
- Mind the Gap!
- Presentation Methods for Teacher Z
- Chapter 6 Generational Lessons of COVID-19
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha: The New Lost Generations?
- The New Digital Divide
- A Flipping of the Paradigm
- Adjusting Mindsets
- Advice for Changing Mindsets
- The Digital Gap in Administrators
- Chapter 7: Upagers and Political Activism
- Gen Z Survivors Leading the Way on Gun Reform
- Gen Z Leading the Way in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
- Lessons From a University Protest
- The Coming of the Minority Majority
- Chapter 8: Millennials and Gen Z Ascending in the 2020s
- Four Key Points and Questions for the 2020s
- The University Model Could Affect the PreK-12 Model
- New Paths to Leadership
- The Future: Millennial Teachers, Gen Z Teachers, and AI Teachers?
- Being Human in the 2020s
50 Tips for Transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership
50 Tips for Transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership
References
References
Additional materials
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September 2021 | 192 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781071837023 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781071836996 | $35.00 |
An unprecedented leadership challenge for school administrators
Today’s school leaders face the unprecedented challenge of leading five generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and brand-new Generation Z teachers, along with Gen Alpha, today’s youngest students. Based on extensive research and the author’s experience working with thousands of educators and students, 5-Gen Leadership addresses the nuances and expectations implicit with leading each generation. With an emphasis on developing a multi-generational lens through which to view school improvement, this book covers topics such as recruiting and retaining today’s young teachers, tailoring professional development for each generation, and helping each generation succeed in a complex, accelerating world. Readers will also find:
- Tactics for transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership and understanding the four distinct generations in the teaching staff
- Moving leadership styles from a managing model to a coaching model
- Advice for understanding and creating a welcoming environment for Gen Z and Gen Alpha
- Suggestions for closing the digital generation gaps that emerged during the COVID-19 school closures
- A glimpse into the future to imagine how new generations of leaders will help reshape schools by 2030
If we’re going to make the most of reforming our schools in the 2020s and keep up with the exponential rate of change in society we must understand today’s students and the four disparate generations in our staffs. This book is critical to help leaders bridge those gaps.
“How do we prepare today’s students for the rapidly changing workplace and society in which they will live, work, and interact in an education system designed for a century that has passed us by? In 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Mark White clearly provides a well-lit path to assist educators to successfully make the necessary cultural, structural and instructional changes that are needed.”
-Bill Daggett, Founder
International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE)
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword
- Publisher’s Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: From Boomers to Alphas
- Understanding the Four Generations in Staffs Today
- Two Groups Are Trying to Lead, and Two Groups Are Trying to Fit In. Sort of . . .
- Millennial Teachers Are Walking Away
- Making Generational Adjustments
- Trouble in the Gen Z Teaching Pipeline
- Recruiting Gen Z Teachers
- Take Steps Now to Become a 5-Gen Leader
- And After We Recruit and Retain Them . . .
- Chapter 2: The Impact of the Silent Generation and Gen Alpha
- Lessons From the Silent Generation
- Gen Alpha, the New Generation
- Gen Alpha’s Impact on Education
- The Transcendent Power of Relationships
- Chapter 3: Moving From Managing to Coaching
- The Challenge of Transitioning to a New Model
- Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas: Handle With Care
- Coaching Into Grit and Professionalism
- Rethinking Evaluations
- New Channels for Communication
- Chapter 4: Teaching Distracted Generations
- Our Evolving Brains
- Distracted Students, Distracted Teachers
- Clues in the News
- Chapter 5: Tactics for Creating Multigenerational PD
- Acknowledging the PD Problem
- A Global Leadership Question: “How Do We Train These Different Generations?”
- Relevancy in PD
- Finding the Generations in the Staff
- Mind the Gap!
- Presentation Methods for Teacher Z
- Chapter 6 Generational Lessons of COVID-19
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha: The New Lost Generations?
- The New Digital Divide
- A Flipping of the Paradigm
- Adjusting Mindsets
- Advice for Changing Mindsets
- The Digital Gap in Administrators
- Chapter 7: Upagers and Political Activism
- Gen Z Survivors Leading the Way on Gun Reform
- Gen Z Leading the Way in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
- Lessons From a University Protest
- The Coming of the Minority Majority
- Chapter 8: Millennials and Gen Z Ascending in the 2020s
- Four Key Points and Questions for the 2020s
- The University Model Could Affect the PreK-12 Model
- New Paths to Leadership
- The Future: Millennial Teachers, Gen Z Teachers, and AI Teachers?
- Being Human in the 2020s
- 50 Tips for Transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership
- References