Leading from the Eye of the Storm

Spirituality and Public School Improvement

AvScott Thompson

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Our public school systems must be transformed in order to help every child achieve his or her potential. However, transformational leadership can be intense, complex, and often chaotic, producing storms of resistance, controversy, and pressure. To survive such storms, author Scott Thompson contends that educators must learn to lead with peace and clarity. In this book, Thompson aims to make new connections within the education reform movement, unleash new energies among leaders, and open new perspectives. Through research and in-depth interviews with seventeen educational leaders, the author explores new developments in the area of spiritual leadership for the systemic improvement of public schools. Topics of discussion include:·Core values ·Moral purpose ·Building shared trust ·Ownership, and ·Vision These and other dimensions of spiritual leadership are given grounding with practical examples and tangible results.For superintendents, central office directors, school board members, principals, teacher leaders, and those who facilitate or provide technical assistance on systemic educational improvement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-03-16
Mått:156 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:268 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Leading Systemic School Improvement
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:MargaretJ. Wheatley
ISBN:9781578862115

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Utbildningsstrategier och utbildningspolitik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Scott Thompson is assistant director of the Panasonic Foundation, a corporate philanthropy devoted to the transformation of public education in the United States; editor of Strategies, an issues series by the Panasonic Foundation in cooperation with the American Association of School Administrators, and president and a founding trustee of the Glen Rock Public Education Foundation. Prior to joining the Panasonic staff, he was director of dissemination and project development with the Institute for Responsive Education and editor of New Schools, New Communities.

Recensioner i media

The America I love now suffers from a toxic brew of fear, cynicism, and false bravado that is taking a terrific toll on everything from individual to institutional life. If we are to deal with the spiritual emptiness behind all this-and find responses that honor the needs of a pluralistic democracy-our public schools must become places where questions of meaning and purpose are taken seriously. Here is a superbly written book that will help educational leaders step up to that challenge. Using tools ranging from poetry, to social analysis, to interviews with change agents, to case studies of transformation, Scott Thompson makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of the spiritual depths that are hidden, but not lost, in our individual and collective lives.