How School Leaders Can Unlock Deeper Collaboration and Drive Results
Deepen your connections with students, staff, and your larger community. Behind every thriving school or district are deeply interconnected teams that consistently engage in a reciprocal transfer of learning. Leading With Intention aims to make this process visible by helping leaders and teachers understand how their thinking impacts their decision-making and the overall well-being of their learning communities. Through five highly practical chapters, authors DeWitt and Nelson explore self-awareness, nurturing human interconnectedness, collective inquiry, establishing a learning network, and crafting a personal learning environment. Filled with research, stories, and places to process information, this timely book is focused on how educators think, the choices they make, and how they develop deeper academic and social-emotional connections. Other features include: Success criteria to help readers identify personal goals Suggested activities to apply knowledge Reflection sheets with guiding questions In-depth examples to illustrate content School-leaders will come away with a deeper understanding of the importance of self-awareness in leadership and the pedagogical knowledge required to focus initiatives on student learning. Leading with Intention helps education leaders go from being merely 'on task' to deeply engaged and reconnected with why they entered the education profession in the first place.
An interrogation of the gender bias inherent in our education system and the damage it does to girls and boys, and an examination of the research that can change it all to create a more compassionate society that values traditionally female qualities.
"What is wrong with our schools?" is the question everyone seems to be asking, or more like screaming nowadays. Standard answers point to everything from school funding to unions to bureaucracies and more. In this book, Daniel Buck provides a different answer: flawed ideas-ideas about instruction, curriculum, even human nature itself-are the root ......
With the election looming education is a key topic - teachers, parents, employers need to stand up and have their say on the future of education.Everyone knows schools need rethinking our political and educational worlds teem with critiques and proposals. But few speak from the heart: from the perspectives and concerns of teachers, children and ......
This is a research-based guide that provides a framework for effective training around autism for teachers. An edited collection of short chapters, the book is full of practical activities and discussion points ideally suited for time-stretched trainee teachers, those leading training courses and busy teachers continuing to learn on the ......
Why it's time to turn your school and community inside out
This brilliant book, focused on the education of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, argues for a move to place equity at the heart of school leadership.
Forewords by Professor Robert Bjork and Emeritus Professor Dylan Wiliam.
If you feel a bit cross at the presumption of some oik daring to suggest everything you know about education might be wrong, please take it with a pinch of salt. It's just a title. Of course, you probably ......
'The Forgotten Third' is a provocative collection of essays which poses the fundamental question: 'Do a third of school students have to fail so that two-thirds can pass?' Roy Blatchford has brought together a group of leading thinkers and influencers in UK education to address this question - and pose some answers.
We have the power to transform our public schools--not through government mandates or the newest "teacher-proof" text series, and not through what many educators call "best practices." Our schools can be transformed by applying Waldorf-inspired practices into the public-school setting. This little-known, but well established form of education can ......
