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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.
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
Women have incredible potential to drive change in education if
they step up to lead at all levels. In Step In, Step Up, authors
Jane A. G. Kise and Barbara K. Watterston guide current and
aspiring women leaders through a twelve-week leadership journey. An
assortment of activities, reflection prompts, and stories empower
readers to overcome gender barriers to female leadership and engage
in opportunities to learn, grow, and lead within their school
communities. This book will inspire you to step into educational
leadership with confidence. Examine the need for women in
leadership positions at schools and districts. Consider your own
leadership identity and learn where to make adjustments. Feel
empowered to overcome gender barriers, female stereotypes, and the
double bind experienced by women in leadership roles. Gain tools
and strategies for creating an action plan for effective
instructional leadership in schools. Learn about hard and soft
leadership skills and their value in educational leadership.
Complete reflection activities to reinforce learning and
professional leadership development. Contents: About the Authors
Introduction: The Why and How of Women's Leadership Journey Chapter
1: Engaging Women in School Leadership Chapter 2: Navigating Gender
Barriers Chapter 3: Finding Time for the Leadership Journey Chapter
4: Readying Yourself for Stepping Up Chapter 5: Taking the Path to
Maturity Chapter 6: Knowing Your Hardwired Strengths Chapter 7:
Challenging Your High-Flying and Limiting Beliefs Chapter 8:
Exploring Emotional Intelligence Chapter 9: Making Yourself Heard
Chapter 10: Finding the Courage for Tough Conversations Chapter 11:
Encouraging More Women to Lead Chapter 12: Crafting Your Identity
as a Female Leader A Final Note References and Resources Index
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!
'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!
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