Here is a handbook that will guide each reader through ten chapters that include models, tools, and exercises to develop collaborative leadership. The Courage to Lead is written by two successful school principals that have provided practical lessons and activities that will build the leadership capacity of anyone who reads it. Included in this book are ways to increase collaboration with reciprocal benefits for leaders and followers and ways to develop and sustain top performance in leadership. Servais and Sanders have written this handbook with a hope and spirit of celebration to encourage leaders who have chosen the road less traveled not to travel alone. Will be of interest to school superintendents, principals, teachers, professors of educational leadership, and candidates in administrative graduate programs.

The Courage to Grow: Leading with Intentionality shows educational leaders how to design and carry out a leadership professional development plan. It is a guide that allows leaders to construct their own learning to measure knowledge, assess growth, and improve performance. This training manual is for the teacher leader, beginning principal, practicing principal, assistant principal, department chair, district office administrator, aspiring leadership candidate, and college preparation program professor. Chapters begin with a section called Learning with Intentionality, as defined as an intense energy or desire to grow exponentially, followed by a personal application of Caring with Intentionality. Chapters 2 7 include a leadership self-assessment utilizing the ISLLC Standards and conclude with growth activities. Depending on their leadership roles, the readers can select activities best suited to grow performance from present realities to ideal conditions for learning. The reader is then encouraged to design a personal Action Plan that takes into account knowledge from each chapter, strategies for growing performance with intentionality, and self-assessment results. Finally, each chapter includes websites, resources, and activities to improve leadership.