It's time to make your mental bandwidth work for you. Being an educator is more stressful than ever, and teachers and administrators must constantly shift gears to stay on top of the newest initiatives and students' ever-changing needs. Educator Bandwidth: How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, and Time provides the tools and strategies to reduce stress, avoid burnout, and regain the time that gets lost to interruptions, temptations, competing demands, and task-switching. The first step is to understand how much stress is weighing on your own mental bandwidth. Professional development experts Jane A. G. Kise and Ann Holm have developed the Brain Energy and Bandwidth Survey to help you self-assess the six key factors that contribute to bandwidth: Balance between priorities Filtering through possibilities Mental habits that improve focus Physical habits that fuel the brain Connection with others Workload and time management Kise and Holm combine the latest neuroscience research with their own extensive experience working with educators to bring the most effective strategies and habits that help you manage your mental bandwidth and prioritize drains on mental energy. When you can establish good habits, focus on what's possible within your locus of control, and balance priorities, you can improve your educator bandwidth and feel more engaged, centered, and effective in your work.

This updated comprehensive guide helps people discover how God has uniquely created them. Engaging stories, inventories, self-tests, and other easy-to-use exercises make Discover Who You Are a one-ofa-kind tool. It will help those longing to find or deepen meaning in life, considering volunteer opportunities, contemplating career changes, or desiring to become more useful to God. The book, workbook, and leader's material provide all that's needed for a LifeKeys workshop.

Understand your own strengths and your staff's strengths. Leaders are most effective when they understand their own styles, work from their strengths, and compensate for their blind spots. Personality type is the way people gain energy, absorb information, and make decisions. It explains how people lead, communicate, and learn. It's possible to learn how to utilize those areas that are not our natural strengths. y understanding personality types and differentiation, school leadership teams can more effectively distribute leadership responsibilities. Principals, administrators, and teacher leaders can also help others utilize their strengths and develop their other capacities.An ideal resource for principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, assistant superintendents, superintendents, and those leading or serving on school improvement teams or other teams.

'I loved this book! It was so informative I couldn't put it down. Every teacher-beginning, experienced, urban, suburban, rural, and private-will find examples and ideas that they can use immediately' - Sharon Jeffery, National Board Certified Teacher, Plymouth Public Schools, MA 'Brilliant! An absolute goldmine for teachers. Each page delivers a nugget of insight, understanding and guidance for both easy and tough teaching situations' - B. Bradley West, Professor, Michigan State University 'Offers a "suitcase" filled with ideas to enhance any learning experience. The techniques offered range from simple modifications to more comprehensive restructuring of curriculum. There is something for everyone in this book' - Amy M. Zais, Associate Principal, Eau Claire North High School, WI 'Deftly illustrates how crucial the personality type and learning style of the teacher is to the learning environment in the classroom. The teacher emerges from this guide with a surer sense of self and how to help students achieve "flow" in the classroom so they can work in their best mode while also expanding into new ones' - Lyn Fairchild, Coordinator of Independent Learning, Duke University Students' learning styles are as unique as their personalities. As a result, the most successful teachers are often those who understand how to adjust their educational techniques to honor students of all intelligences and backgrounds. This comprehensive resource, based on the author's years of research and experience, presents a usable, understandable framework that assists teachers in achieving success in today's differentiated classroom. From easy-to-implement techniques to templates for planning lengthy curriculum units, teachers receive clear direction for appealing to the learning personalities in their diverse classrooms. Readers will also find: * Relevant stories, exercises, and examples to illustrate differentiated classroom instruction * Balanced advice for improving student growth and performance in small-group work, class discussions, and relationship building * Practical ideas and activities for immediate application in the classroom Discover teaching techniques that result in success for students of all learning styles!

Build a school where students flourish academically while also meeting their social and emotional learning needs. In this practical school leadership book, author Jane A. G. Kise offers a toolkit of strategies specially designed to support the leadership development goals and daily work of school leaders. Learn how to overcome ongoing school leadership challenges, navigate competing priorities, and unite your entire school community around one common purpose: supporting whole-child learning. Lead schools in teaching the whole student, with help from this educational leadership book: Understand the benefits of student engagement and having the whole child present in the classroom. Study the twelve lenses of school leadership -- core educational leadership responsibilities that are essential for leading whole-child schools. Overcome biases and balance student and adult needs by developing leadership skills and emotional intelligence. Learn how effective educational leadership goal-setting can create an environment strengthened by collaborative trust, where students and educators feel engaged and motivated. Gain insight into SMART goal-setting for leadership development, establishing a priority focus to achieve real goals. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Developing Leadership for Whole-Child Schools Chapter 2: Thinking in Terms of Both and And: A Core Leadership Competency Chapter 3: Understanding Emotional Intelligence and Leading for the Whole Child Chapter 4: Leading Toward a Common Vision and Guiding Others in Leading Themselves Chapter 5: Implementing Initiatives and Making Them Meaningful Chapter 6: Building a Collaborative Learning Community and Ensuring That Individuals Have Autonomy Chapter 7: Taking Reality Into Account and Pursuing a Vision Chapter 8: Building on Current Success and Changing to Meet the Future Chapter 9: Moving Ahead Quickly and Moving Ahead for the Long Haul Chapter 10: Balancing Logical Objectivity and Valuable Subjectivity Chapter 11: Getting Results and Building Trust Chapter 12: Effectively Using Positional Power and Sharing Power Chapter 13: Having Clarity on What and Why and Having Flexibility on How Chapter 14: Planning for the Predictable and Embracing the Possible Chapter 15: Making Measurable Whole-Child Achievement Progress and Finding Purpose Chapter 16: Focusing on Your Priorities Appendix: Personality Type and the Lenses of Leadership

Learn how meeting teachers' needs for growth translates to student success! We know that different students learn in different ways. Adult learners do too! Discover a framework for helping teachers change by differentiating approaches to development based on their learning styles and personality types. This expanded second edition includes: An online tool to discover your personality type and how it fits into a strength-based framework for working with people who do and don't think like you A new coaching cycle model with core questions for differentiating coaching and planning your next coaching move Five key elements for effectively coaching teachers for change

All too often, key education initiatives collapse because leaders fail to anticipate and learn from the concerns of those charged with implementation. This illuminating book shows how education leaders can bring opposing groups to common ground, resulting in a solid plan built on diverse wisdom. Acclaimed education coach Jane Kise demonstrates how polarity thinking-a powerful tool for bridging differences developed by Barry Johnson of Polarity Partnerships-provides an alternative to endless debates and either/or thinking. Rather than seeing conflicting forces, the tools help us view them as equally important-even interdependent-concepts, approaches, or models. Readers will find: Ways to recognize polarities, map the positive and negative aspects, and channel energy wasted on disagreement toward a greater common purpose Tools for introducing and working with polarities Polarity mapping to help leaders improve processes for leading change and creating buy-in Ways to use polarity with students as a framework for higher-level thinking

Understand your own strengths and your staff's strengths. Leaders are most effective when they understand their own styles, work from their strengths, and compensate for their blind spots. Personality type is the way people gain energy, absorb information, and make decisions. It explains how people lead, communicate, and learn. It's possible to learn how to utilize those areas that are not our natural strengths. y understanding personality types and differentiation, school leadership teams can more effectively distribute leadership responsibilities. Principals, administrators, and teacher leaders can also help others utilize their strengths and develop their other capacities.An ideal resource for principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, assistant superintendents, superintendents, and those leading or serving on school improvement teams or other teams.

'I loved this book! It was so informative I couldn't put it down. Every teacher-beginning, experienced, urban, suburban, rural, and private-will find examples and ideas that they can use immediately' - Sharon Jeffery, National Board Certified Teacher, Plymouth Public Schools, MA 'Brilliant! An absolute goldmine for teachers. Each page delivers a nugget of insight, understanding and guidance for both easy and tough teaching situations' - B. Bradley West, Professor, Michigan State University 'Offers a "suitcase" filled with ideas to enhance any learning experience. The techniques offered range from simple modifications to more comprehensive restructuring of curriculum. There is something for everyone in this book' - Amy M. Zais, Associate Principal, Eau Claire North High School, WI 'Deftly illustrates how crucial the personality type and learning style of the teacher is to the learning environment in the classroom. The teacher emerges from this guide with a surer sense of self and how to help students achieve "flow" in the classroom so they can work in their best mode while also expanding into new ones' - Lyn Fairchild, Coordinator of Independent Learning, Duke University Students' learning styles are as unique as their personalities. As a result, the most successful teachers are often those who understand how to adjust their educational techniques to honor students of all intelligences and backgrounds. This comprehensive resource, based on the author's years of research and experience, presents a usable, understandable framework that assists teachers in achieving success in today's differentiated classroom. From easy-to-implement techniques to templates for planning lengthy curriculum units, teachers receive clear direction for appealing to the learning personalities in their diverse classrooms. Readers will also find: * Relevant stories, exercises, and examples to illustrate differentiated classroom instruction * Balanced advice for improving student growth and performance in small-group work, class discussions, and relationship building * Practical ideas and activities for immediate application in the classroom Discover teaching techniques that result in success for students of all learning styles!