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Principal to Principal: Conversations in Servant Leadership, is an
expanded edition of the original, published by Rowman and
Littlefield in 2008. The book tells the story of a recently retired
principal (John), who walks a first year principal (Linda) through
her first year in serving a school. Chapter by chapter, John wisely
mentors, as Linda vents, cries, listens, and learns--experiencing
what it's really like down in the trenches as an authentic servant
leader.
Servant leadership has become a prominent and popular approach to
leadership in the 21st Century across a variety of public, private,
and non-profit sectors. The stories in this book illustrate servant
leadership in action and many of the signature elements of servant
leadership can be traced across these pages. These stories are
deeply rooted in the reciprocal experiences of leaders and
followers and they convey real challenges, emotions,
accomplishments, and victories that inspire optimism and hope for a
brighter future for our schools and communities and the servants
who lead them.
Servant leadership has become a prominent and popular approach to
leadership in the 21st Century across a variety of public, private,
and non-profit sectors. The stories in this book illustrate servant
leadership in action and many of the signature elements of servant
leadership can be traced across these pages. These stories are
deeply rooted in the reciprocal experiences of leaders and
followers and they convey real challenges, emotions,
accomplishments, and victories that inspire optimism and hope for a
brighter future for our schools and communities and the servants
who lead them.
This book is a descriptive treatment of the Professional Standards
for Education Leaders (PSEL), developed by several professors in
Kentucky who teach graduate ed leadership courses, and their
colleagues at the Kentucky Department of Education. PSEL has been
adopted by the Kentucky Educational Professional Standards Board as
the leadership standards that drive instruction and practice. This
resource is an excellent guide for any school leader, as it breaks
down PSEL, and follows with bulleted examples and scenarios that
illustrate 'best practice' in serving a school effectively and
creating a culture of school improvement.
This book is a descriptive treatment of the Professional Standards
for Education Leaders (PSEL), developed by several professors in
Kentucky who teach graduate ed leadership courses, and their
colleagues at the Kentucky Department of Education. PSEL has been
adopted by the Kentucky Educational Professional Standards Board as
the leadership standards that drive instruction and practice. This
resource is an excellent guide for any school leader, as it breaks
down PSEL, and follows with bulleted examples and scenarios that
illustrate 'best practice' in serving a school effectively and
creating a culture of school improvement.
Student Ownership details a specific set of strategies used by a
case study school to effectively triple the school's number of
college and/or career ready students over a two year period. The
school moved from the bottom 5 percent in the state in transition
readiness for students to the top 5 percent by implementing
strategies that helped the students take ownership of their futures
by implementing these strategies. In addition, companion strategies
are included that were used to change the minds of the teachers and
administrators in order to establish ownership in the minds of
their students. This book will help you establish student
empowerment and ownership of their learning in your school culture.
Student Ownership details a specific set of strategies used by a
case study school to effectively triple the school's number of
college and/or career ready students over a two year period. The
school moved from the bottom 5 percent in the state in transition
readiness for students to the top 5 percent by implementing
strategies that helped the students take ownership of their futures
by implementing these strategies. In addition, companion strategies
are included that were used to change the minds of the teachers and
administrators in order to establish ownership in the minds of
their students. This book will help you establish student
empowerment and ownership of their learning in your school culture.
Servant Leadership: Leaving a Legacy is a heart-warming closure to
the "Principal to Principal" series. This fourth book finds John
battling cancer that might be terminal, and his conversations with
Brad and others he is mentoring provide a unique glimpse into the
heart of a true servant leader. John's passion for life and caring
for others is contagious, and leaves the reader clinging to the
hope that he will beat his one last challenge. In an era of
re-invention of schools on all levels, this story zeroes in on the
critical need for integrity-driven leaders who understand how
vision, innovative thinking, emotional intelligence and authentic
relationship can transform a school's culture.
This book simply dissects the interesting, inspiring, and sometimes
lonely world of the teacher of early childhood. As the continued
advancements in education across the board hint at a brighter
future for our children and our society, we are troubled that some
of the same practices that have prevented earlier generations of
students and teachers from prospering in the classroom are still
commonplace. Johns and Wallace endeavor to touch the hearts of
teachers, administrators, and parents who know deep down there is
still such a long way to go and who understand that the tasks
assigned to teachers are sometimes overwhelming. Great classrooms
have teachers who care deeply for the children entrusted to their
care while great schools continually forge ahead in providing the
necessary human resources, tools, training, and support in the
affective domain that teachers so desperately need in order to have
meaningful, fulfilling careers.
Servant Leadership Leaving a Legacy is a heart-warming closure to
the 'Principal to Principal' series. This fourth book finds John
battling cancer that might be terminal, and his conversations with
Brad and others he is mentoring provide a unique glimpse into the
heart of a true servant leader. This story zeroes in on the
critical need for integrity-driven leaders who understand how
vision, innovative thinking, emotional intelligence and authentic
relationship can transform a school's culture.
Privileged thinking in today's schools is alive and well and shows
its ugly head in a variety of ways that often go undetected (or are
not addressed) by the educators down in the trenches. In this
collection of scenarios and episodes, many of which were
experienced by the authors in their years as school administrators,
you will find an array of provocative examples of social injustice
in the classroom, and what you can do to prevent it in your own
school community. As the authors candidly and vulnerably reveal
their own 'blind spots' and biases that occurred 'on their watch, '
readers will be able to take a look in the mirror as well, thus
taking a critical step in better advocating for those students
'left on the fringe' in classrooms and schools
Privileged thinking in today's schools is alive and well and shows
its ugly head in a variety of ways that often go undetected (or are
not addressed) by the educators down in the trenches. In this
collection of scenarios and episodes, many of which were
experienced by the authors in their years as school administrators,
you will find an array of provocative examples of social injustice
in the classroom, and what you can do to prevent it in your own
school community. As the authors candidly and vulnerably reveal
their own 'blind spots' and biases that occurred 'on their watch, '
readers will be able to take a look in the mirror as well, thus
taking a critical step in better advocating for those students
'left on the fringe' in classrooms and schools
Breaking Away from the Corporate Model integrates the core values
of servant leadership into an effective formula for organizational
health and school transformation. Providing strategies for
transformation, Rocky Wallace follows a high school principal,
John, as he extends his servant leadership model to a regional
cohort of principals. The rich discussions and networking that
result provides critical support for these school shepherds as they
learn to more effectively serve their school communities. This book
emphasizes the need to understand how the corporate mentality and
impersonal business of school can easily get in the way of the
heart of teaching and learning.
Across the country, there is an urgent call for transformational
high school reform. The Servant Leader and High School Change
addresses the plea for secondary school reinvention, inspiring the
reader to get more involved in local school improvement efforts.
Wallace captures_in story form_what students, teachers,
administrators, and parents have been saying for a long time: there
is a simpler, more effective way to run a people-centered school.
Following a struggling high school principal who has lost his way,
Wallace demonstrates what can happen in one school year when a
gifted mentor gets the attention of the principal who is his
student and teaches him the real meaning of servant leadership,
thus transforming not only the principal, but the entire school and
community.
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