This guide for principals, school leaders, teachers, and other educational leaders outlines a process for becoming a responsive leader in schools and school districts, within the context of the school as a learning organization. Readers will learn how to establish and facilitate leader learning teams, which offer a framework for building the capacity to lead through influence, based on the critical friend pedagogy. The book supplies a learning conversation template of seven protocols, with example dialogues and scripts for each protocol. One chapter is devoted to the psychological foundations of leadership learning inquiry and of collaborative leader learning. The guide’s two-color layout features example boxes, discussion questions, and process diagrams. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Jump start your roles as “learning leader” and “lead learner!” Designed for leaders to learn and lead within the “middle space” between the seemingly opposing dynamics of district expectations and practitioner experience, this book advances the concept of the school as a learning organization. This innovative perspective guides leaders through an intentional, deliberate learning process to develop intelligent, responsive leadership practice. Using stories, strategies, and tools, the authors · Explain the power of “purposeful practice” as a methodology for getting better · Show how to build the requisite capacities to lead effectively via “influence”· Describe how to turn adaptive challenges into leadership inquiries for growth "This important work demonstrates and reinforces the idea that continuous improvement can only come from deep, intentional, focused, and hard work on the part of everyone within an organization. While the examples are rooted within schools and school districts, this work is applicable to any organization that seeks meaningful and specific improvement in their results. This is a must-read for leaders!"—Lynn MacanUniversity at Albany - SUNY, Albany, NY