Jack Leonard has served in education for 45 years, from pre-school to graduate school, as a teacher, administrator and school founder. He now teaches and conducts research on leadership and school partnerships for the Leadership in Urban Schools program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Jack Leonard has written a thoughtful and personal account of his experiences as an entrepreneurial school leader. Leaders who function as creative, independent and courageous thinkers are often misunderstood in school districts structured hierarchically in a risk-adverse culture. Everyone in education involved in the rethinking of how schools and their central office should be organized and led will find Leonard’s ideas around the value that entrepreneurial leaders bring to an organization valuable and forward thinking.

• PrefaceIntroductionAcknowledgments Chapter One: The Case for Entrepreneurial Leadership in EducationEntrepreneurial Leaders: Risky but RequiredWhy All the Interest in Innovation?What Does Innovation Mean?What Is Entrepreneurial Leadership?Entrepreneurial Leadership TraitsEntrepreneurial BehaviorsWhy Aren’t There More Entrepreneurial Leaders in Education?The Place for Risk in Public EducationConclusionChapter Two: Maximizing Entrepreneurial LeadershipDefining Economic EntrepreneurismThe Social EntrepreneurEntrepreneurial Leadership Versus Other Leadership TheoriesMore Leadership StylesMaximizing EntrepreneurshipA Case Study: the Early College ProgramConclusion Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial OrganizationsLeading for InnovationOrganizational CharacteristicsDiscretionProfessional Learning CommunitiesProximityReorganizationIncentivesThe Early College Case Study ReconsideredConclusion Chapter 4: Leading an Entrepreneurial OrganizationA Case Study: Dunbar HighInnovation in the 1980sScalabilityWhat about the Principal?Cultural Reform StrategyPhase Two at DunbarProfessional DevelopmentConclusionChapter 5: The Entrepreneurial Teacher LeaderWhat Is Teacher Leadership?An Example of a Teacher LeaderA Case Study: Dunbar AgainA Different Kind of Teacher LeadershipA Historical LookEconomic and Social DefinitionsHow Teachers Perceive Teacher Leadership? Strategies for Effective Entrepreneurial Communities of PracticePrincipals Who Encourage Entrepreneurial Teacher LeadershipParallel LeadershipConclusion Chapter 6: Partnerships for Entrepreneurial InnovationThe Power and Promise of Partnerships in EducationCaveats and ConcernsTwo TheoriesMultiple Partners: Exosystem WorkCultural CohesionA Bad ExampleGood ExamplesTight Coupling on a Larger ScaleSustainabilityBoundary SpannersBenefitsConclusionChapter 7: Entrepreneurial Leadership for EveryoneMeasurementsEntrepreneurial DisruptionsSocial EffectsPolitical GainsEconomics The Creative WorldConclusion

Jack Leonard has served in education for 45 years, from pre-school to graduate school, as a teacher, administrator and school founder. He now teaches and conducts research on leadership and school partnerships for the Leadership in Urban Schools program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Jack Leonard has written a thoughtful and personal account of his experiences as an entrepreneurial school leader. Leaders who function as creative, independent and courageous thinkers are often misunderstood in school districts structured hierarchically in a risk-adverse culture. Everyone in education involved in the rethinking of how schools and their central office should be organized and led will find Leonard’s ideas around the value that entrepreneurial leaders bring to an organization valuable and forward thinking.

• PrefaceIntroductionAcknowledgments Chapter One: The Case for Entrepreneurial Leadership in EducationEntrepreneurial Leaders: Risky but RequiredWhy All the Interest in Innovation?What Does Innovation Mean?What Is Entrepreneurial Leadership?Entrepreneurial Leadership TraitsEntrepreneurial BehaviorsWhy Aren’t There More Entrepreneurial Leaders in Education?The Place for Risk in Public EducationConclusionChapter Two: Maximizing Entrepreneurial LeadershipDefining Economic EntrepreneurismThe Social EntrepreneurEntrepreneurial Leadership Versus Other Leadership TheoriesMore Leadership StylesMaximizing EntrepreneurshipA Case Study: the Early College ProgramConclusion Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial OrganizationsLeading for InnovationOrganizational CharacteristicsDiscretionProfessional Learning CommunitiesProximityReorganizationIncentivesThe Early College Case Study ReconsideredConclusion Chapter 4: Leading an Entrepreneurial OrganizationA Case Study: Dunbar HighInnovation in the 1980sScalabilityWhat about the Principal?Cultural Reform StrategyPhase Two at DunbarProfessional DevelopmentConclusionChapter 5: The Entrepreneurial Teacher LeaderWhat Is Teacher Leadership?An Example of a Teacher LeaderA Case Study: Dunbar AgainA Different Kind of Teacher LeadershipA Historical LookEconomic and Social DefinitionsHow Teachers Perceive Teacher Leadership? Strategies for Effective Entrepreneurial Communities of PracticePrincipals Who Encourage Entrepreneurial Teacher LeadershipParallel LeadershipConclusion Chapter 6: Partnerships for Entrepreneurial InnovationThe Power and Promise of Partnerships in EducationCaveats and ConcernsTwo TheoriesMultiple Partners: Exosystem WorkCultural CohesionA Bad ExampleGood ExamplesTight Coupling on a Larger ScaleSustainabilityBoundary SpannersBenefitsConclusionChapter 7: Entrepreneurial Leadership for EveryoneMeasurementsEntrepreneurial DisruptionsSocial EffectsPolitical GainsEconomics The Creative WorldConclusion