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Design Thinking for School Leaders - Five Roles and Mindsets That Ignite Positive Change (Paperback)
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Design Thinking for School Leaders - Five Roles and Mindsets That Ignite Positive Change (Paperback)
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Design is the rendering of intent."" What if education leaders
approached their work with the perspective of a designer? This new
perspective of seeing the world differently is desperately needed
in schools and begins with school leadership. Alyssa Gallagher and
Kami Thordarson, widely recognized experts on Design Thinking,
educational leadership, and innovative strategies, call this new
perspective design-inspired leadership-one of the most powerful
ways to ignite positive change and address education challenges
using the same design and innovation principles that have been so
successful in private industry.Design Thinking for School Leaders
explores the changing landscape of leadership and offers practical
ways to reframe the role of school leader using Design Thinking,
one step at a time. Leaders can shift from ""accidental designers""
to ""design-inspired leaders,"" acting with greater intention and
achieving greater impact. You'll learn how viewing the world
through a more empathetic lens-a critical first step on the path to
becoming a design-inspired leader-can raise your awareness of the
uniqueness of your teachers and students and prompt you to question
the ways in which they experience your school. Gallagher and
Thordarson detail five specific roles to help you identify
opportunities for positively impacting students, teachers,
districts, parents, and the community: Opportunity Seeker. Shifts
from problem solving to problem finding. Experience Architect.
Designs and curates learning experiences. Rule Breaker. Challenges
the way things are ""always"" done. Producer. Gets things done and
creates rapid learning cycles for teams. Storyteller. Captures the
hearts and minds of a community. Full of examples of Design
Thinking in action in schools across the country, Design Thinking
for School Leaders can help you guide your school to the forefront
of the new design and education movement, one that will move
traditional education into the modern world and drive the future of
learning.
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