Given the unrelenting, complex demands of our education system, The Mindful School Leader is anindispensable resource for all who
exercise leadership in schools.
Not exact matches
Sixty - seven student ambassadors and fifty program advisors from across the country gathered together, where for five days they participated
in fun, team - building
exercises,
leadership activities, and brainstorming sessions on how to keep
schools active and healthy.
When
leadership becomes an
exercise in maintaining (and advancing) our position, we fail to nourish
school cultures based on creativity, openness, and comfort with ambiguity — qualities defining many leading - edge businesses that still seem scarce
in the world of education.
In two breakout sessions, Professor Paul Reville and Senior Lecturer Liz City led participants in exercises to put into practice changes in their schools, districts, and states, and to hone their leadership skill
In two breakout sessions, Professor Paul Reville and Senior Lecturer Liz City led participants
in exercises to put into practice changes in their schools, districts, and states, and to hone their leadership skill
in exercises to put into practice changes
in their schools, districts, and states, and to hone their leadership skill
in their
schools, districts, and states, and to hone their
leadership skills.
You
exercise leadership through your vision, passion, and commitment to students» social and emotional learning and what it means for their future success
in school, college, careers, community, and life.
During that time — the bulk of his career — he was immersed
in the everyday difficulties (which vexed but impressed him to no end) of building high - performing
schools; he was
in constant interactions with teachers, principals, and students; and he
exercised hands - on
leadership in pursuit of tangible results.
Of 114 editorials on education
in the city's two major newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun Times, between August 1995 and March 1997, three out of four endorsed the district
leadership's complete
exercise of power over
school policy issues.
In addition we examined the degree to which
leadership is
exercised to promote a focus on improved curriculum and instruction, both at the
school and district level.
As we explain
in section 1.1, collective
leadership refers to influence
exercised by
school leaders and families and other stakeholders.
The main topics covered were: 1) the respondent «s perceptions of the major state - level policy initiatives of importance over the last few years (allowing the respondent to determine the starting year / policy); 2) specific policy initiatives
in two arenas: accountability and promoting
school leadership; 3) a discussion of the policy initiators and actors, and their stakes and stands on major policy initiatives; and 4) their comments about the way
in which groups and individuals work together or separately to
exercise influence over educational policy.
Evidence about collective
leadership reported
in Section 1.1 reveals the extent of influence
exercised by most stakeholders
in and around
schools on decisions
in the
school.
We lack detailed, comprehensive information about the ways
in which states are interpreting federal legislation and
exercising leadership in adapting legislation to specific circumstances and needs arising
in their
schools.
District leaders should acknowledge, and begin to reduce, ways
in which secondary
school principals are limited
in their capacity to
exercise instructional
leadership by the work required of them
in their role as it is currently structured.
Teachers
in schools with strong collaborative cultures — as opposed to top - down or individualistic cultures — are more likely to
exercise creative
leadership together and assume responsibility for student success or failure.
The recent flurry of attention to a broader spectrum or distribution of
leadership has begun to sensitize us to the remarkable array of people who
exercise formal or informal
leadership in schools and districts.
Is a referendum on Trinity Western University's law
school an
exercise in democracy or a failure of
leadership by the benchers of the Law Society of British Columbia?