Future Focused Leaders
Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate for Real Educational Change
Foreword by Salome Thomas-EL
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June 2017 | 192 pages | Corwin
Promote the skills and experiences that equip students to thrive in the future!
Future Focused Leaders concentrates on three areas, Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate, that will engage and empower school leaders to effectively prepare students and educators for the future. This book provides best practices, practical tools, and research-based strategies that educators can immediately apply for sustainable innovation in their leadership. With maintaining positive change in mind, this book also offers:
- Examples, vignettes, and activities for reflection and action
- A self-evaluation rubric to check your ability to relate, innovate, and invigorate
- Visit Chase Learning for video and audio resources, as well as a leadership simulation for team practice
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Conversational Leadership: Leadership Driven by Relationships, Listening, and Communication
Chapter 2: Communication Builds Community: Telling Your School Story Together
Chapter 3: Connecting to Make a Difference: Building Relationships With the Entire School Community
Chapter 4: Shift in How We Do School: The Changing Architecture of Learning and Schooling
Chapter 5: Digital Leadership, Learning, and Technology: Digital School Leaders Making a Difference for Students
Chapter 6: Nurturing Creativity: Strategies for Leaders to Inspire Creativity in Their Teachers, Students, and Parents
Chapter 7: Inspiring Others to Greatness: Principals Inspiring Teachers, Students, and Parents for Amazing Things
Chapter 8: Building on Strengths: Leadership That Focuses on Strengths and Celebrates the Success of Others
Chapter 9: Servant Leadership: Serving the Students, Staff, and Community to Ensure They Get What They Need to Learn
Chapter 10: Learning Is the Goal: Leadership That Resists Trends and Quick Fixes
Appendix
References
Index
Used this book as part of a book study for the Leadership Interns when COVID hit and the Interns needed case studies and discussions.
Education Leadership, Le Moyne College
September 1, 2020