Leading from the Eye of the Storm: Spirituality and Public School ImprovementR&L Education, 2005 - 151 páginas Our public school systems must be transformed in order to help every child achieve his or her potential. However, transformational leadership can be intense, complex, and often chaotic, producing storms of resistance, controversy, and pressure. To survive such storms, author Scott Thompson contends that educators must learn to lead with peace and clarity. In this book, Thompson aims to make new connections within the education reform movement, unleash new energies among leaders, and open new perspectives. Through research and in-depth interviews with seventeen educational leaders, the author explores new developments in the area of spiritual leadership for the systemic improvement of public schools. Topics of discussion include: -Core values -Moral purpose -Building shared trust -Ownership, and -Vision These and other dimensions of spiritual leadership are given grounding with practical examples and tangible results. For superintendents, central office directors, school board members, principals, teacher leaders, and those who facilitate or provide technical assistance on systemic educational improvement. |
Contenido
Introduction Spiritual Leadership for Improving Public Schools | 1 |
Wholeness and WholeSystem Transformation | 13 |
Called to Serve | 31 |
Habits of Spiritual Leaders | 39 |
Groundwork Trust Openness and Ownership | 49 |
Groundwork The Power of Vision and the Anchor of Core Values | 67 |
Case Study Transforming a School System | 81 |
Moral Purpose Moral Passion Moral Courage | 91 |
Eye of the Storm or Clarity in Chaos | 103 |
What Power Had I Before I Learned to Yield? | 119 |
Humility in High Places | 129 |
A Vision Educational Rain Forests | 139 |
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About the Author | |
Términos y frases comunes
achievement gap Adelson African American assessment called challenge chapter clarity commitment consciousness core values courage create creative culture deeper Derrick Bell district leaders Edmonds School District educational leaders educational leadership Esau essential experience feel Feldman Fink foundation heart human spirit humility included inner interviews Jacques Lusseyran John Morefield kids lead learning Leverett live Lovre Lusseyran Margaret Wheatley meekness moral passion moral purpose move Omotani openness organization organizational ownership Panasonic parents Parker Palmer percent Plainfield principal progress public education public schools reform Saint Anselm College says school board school system Senge sense servant-leadership shared vision social Spiritual Leaders spiritual leadership spiritual practice stakeholders standards strategic superintendent sustainable systemic school improvement systems thinking teachers teaching test scores there's things Thompson tion transformation trust WASL West Des Moines Wheatley whole whole-system William Stafford words
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