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Conflict is both a timely and a timeless challenge in schools,
stymying school reform initiatives and elevating administrators'
job stress. If "school is a family," as many claim, it is often a
dysfunctional one. Relationships between and among staff, parents,
community and school boards may be destructively divisive, or
alternatively, schools may avoid addressing controversial issues
like inequity, fearful of tensions that would be unleashed. From
Conflict to Collaboration: A School Leader's Guide to Unleashing
Conflict's Problem Solving Power offers a novel perspective. Rather
than impeding school reform, school leaders may harness conflict to
spark organizational vitality and growth. Honoring diverse
viewpoints enables savvy school leaders to engage stakeholders in
meaningful collaboration that builds capacity, enshrines productive
dialogue and group problem-solving as cornerstones of school
culture, and energizes the school community. Drawing on knowledge
from the fields of education, engineering, psychology and business,
the book offers an on-the-job guide for present and future school
leaders. Dozens of actionable leadership strategies are
highlighted; case studies illustrate key concepts; and probing
questions for school leaders and school improvement teams follow
each chapter. In a step-by-step process, the book demonstrates how
the techniques of design thinking may be applied to build a
school's "conflict agility."
Conflict is both a timely and a timeless challenge in schools,
stymying school reform initiatives and elevating administrators'
job stress. If "school is a family," as many claim, it is often a
dysfunctional one. Relationships between and among staff, parents,
community and school boards may be destructively divisive, or
alternatively, schools may avoid addressing controversial issues
like inequity, fearful of tensions that would be unleashed. From
Conflict to Collaboration: A School Leader's Guide to Unleashing
Conflict's Problem Solving Power offers a novel perspective. Rather
than impeding school reform, school leaders may harness conflict to
spark organizational vitality and growth. Honoring diverse
viewpoints enables savvy school leaders to engage stakeholders in
meaningful collaboration that builds capacity, enshrines productive
dialogue and group problem-solving as cornerstones of school
culture, and energizes the school community. Drawing on knowledge
from the fields of education, engineering, psychology and business,
the book offers an on-the-job guide for present and future school
leaders. Dozens of actionable leadership strategies are
highlighted; case studies illustrate key concepts; and probing
questions for school leaders and school improvement teams follow
each chapter. In a step-by-step process, the book demonstrates how
the techniques of design thinking may be applied to build a
school's "conflict agility."
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