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Teacher leadership holds great promise for improving the quality of
teaching and ensuring student success. But for co-performance of
leadership among teacher leaders and principals to be effective,
they must learn to lead in sync. Leading In Sync: Teacher Leaders
and Principals Working Together for Student Learning provides
principals, assistant principals, coaches, department leaders,
grade-level and content team leaders, mentors, professional
development leaders, and in fact all teachers with the strategies
and tools needed to: Examine their own thinking about what
constitutes high-quality teaching so they can work toward a shared
vision. Identify teachers' many strengths as potential assets for
achieving the shared vision. Recognize ways in which most teachers
are already leading. Support leadership collaboration through
efficient, effective communication. Develop trust required to learn
to lead together. Jill Harrison Berg offers thought-provoking
context and reflection questions that enable educators to examine
their unique settings; real-world examples of teachers and
principals co-performing leadership to improve student success; and
dozens of strategies, tools, and templates to facilitate leading in
sync. This book includes a link to free downloadable tools.
Noted leadership coach Jill Harrison Berg offers a comprehensive
guide to help school and teacher leaders amplify the power of
collaborative inquiry as a means for identifying, interrogating,
and addressing instructional inequity. At the center of the book is
Berg's i3PD Planning Map, an invaluable tool for enhancing
inquiry-based professional development experiences so that they
become engines for schoolwide transformation. The map guides
teachers to recognize and reform ways their instructional practice
may be contributing to inequity, bolsters facilitators' abilities
to help their colleagues become more effective agents of their own
learning, and cultivates a culture of organizational learning in
schools. Berg lays out the process in four parts: 1. Establishing a
solid foundation for your improvement cycle with a deep
understanding of the three components of your instructional core:
content, participants, and facilitators.2. Attending to the three
Rs-relevance, rigor, and relationships-representing the connections
among the core components. 3. Designing your improvement cycle and
planning it out as a series of session agendas. 4. Planning for
impact by thinking through what you will accept as evidence of
success and how you will use that information to take your school
to the next level. If you're ready to see your school start to work
smarter toward instructional equity, and if you're eager to be a
part of that change, Uprooting Instructional Inequity provides the
design principles and sample tools you need to get the
transformation started.
Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual
skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its
relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters
includes detailed examples and learning exercises that guide the
reader step by step from intellectual competency, to critical
thinking, to cultural cognition, and to critical awareness
necessary for social justice. The book documents and explains the
scope of multiple crises facing society today, including
environmental destruction, income and wealth inequality,
large-scale human migration, and the rise of autocratic
governments. It shows how critical thinking, cultural cognition,
and critical awareness lead to the possibility of solutions
grounded in social justice. All college students, especially those
in the social sciences and humanities, will develop the
intellectual skills necessary for critically engaging information
in order to become active learners and effective agents in the
world. This book complements information in introductory,
interdisciplinary, or discipline-specific courses. Every chapter
contains examples and exercises that can be assigned as homework,
adopted as in-class activities, or both. The Conclusion also
contains exercises for developing writing and basic mathematical
competency skills.
Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual
skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its
relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters
includes detailed examples and learning exercises that guide the
reader step by step from intellectual competency, to critical
thinking, to cultural cognition, and to critical awareness
necessary for social justice. The book documents and explains the
scope of multiple crises facing society today, including
environmental destruction, income and wealth inequality,
large-scale human migration, and the rise of autocratic
governments. It shows how critical thinking, cultural cognition,
and critical awareness lead to the possibility of solutions
grounded in social justice. All college students, especially those
in the social sciences and humanities, will develop the
intellectual skills necessary for critically engaging information
in order to become active learners and effective agents in the
world. This book complements information in introductory,
interdisciplinary, or discipline-specific courses. Every chapter
contains examples and exercises that can be assigned as homework,
adopted as in-class activities, or both. The Conclusion also
contains exercises for developing writing and basic mathematical
competency skills.
Leadership can be a challenging and complex area of practice, but
this textbook will be your essential guide, teaching you how to
master this important skill and find your professional voice. The
book considers the challenges of leadership in the early years,
exploring both the theoretical aspects, and the skills and tools
needed to support and develop leadership and mentoring in practice.
You will be encouraged to critically reflect on practice in a
global context, looking at vignettes, case studies and reflections
from international settings, which will equip you with valuable
transferable leadership skills, applicable to any situation in
practice.
Leadership can be a challenging and complex area of practice, but
this textbook will be your essential guide, teaching you how to
master this important skill and find your professional voice. The
book considers the challenges of leadership in the early years,
exploring both the theoretical aspects, and the skills and tools
needed to support and develop leadership and mentoring in practice.
You will be encouraged to critically reflect on practice in a
global context, looking at vignettes, case studies and reflections
from international settings, which will equip you with valuable
transferable leadership skills, applicable to any situation in
practice.
Fathers of disabled children can feel overlooked when the focus of
much parenting support is aimed at mothers. Different Dads is a
collection of inspiring personal testimonies written by fathers of
children with a disability who reflect on their own experiences and
offer advice to other fathers and families on the challenges of
raising a child with a disability. The fathers featured represent a
broad spectrum of experience. Their contributions reflect a wide
range of cultures; some are single fathers, others are married
adoptive fathers. What they all have in common are the challenges
that face them and their families in raising a child with a
disability. Issues explored include the reactions of family,
friends and colleagues, how to deal with the organisations and
professionals that support families with a disabled child, and the
difficulty of being open about feelings in a culture that doesn't
always expect men to have a sensitive or nurturing role. Offering
direct and thoughtful perspectives on being a father of a child
with a disability, this book will be a valuable source of support
and information for families with disabled children, and also for
health and social care professionals who work with these families.
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