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Jump start your roles as “learning leader” and “lead learner!” Designed for leaders to learn and lead within the “middle space” between the seemingly opposing dynamics of district expectations and practitioner experience, this book advances the concept of the school as a learning organization. This innovative perspective guides leaders through an intentional, deliberate learning process to develop intelligent, responsive leadership practice. Using stories, strategies, and tools, the authors • Explain the power of “purposeful practice” as a methodology for getting better • Show how to build the requisite capacities to lead effectively via “influence” • Describe how to turn adaptive challenges into leadership inquiries for growth “This important work demonstrates and reinforces the idea that continuous improvement can only come from deep, intentional, focused, and hard work on the part of everyone within an organization. While the examples are rooted within schools and school districts, this work is applicable to any organization that seeks meaningful and specific improvement in their results. This is a must-read for leaders!” —Lynn Macan University at Albany – SUNY, Albany, NY
The Intelligent, Responsive School
The Intelligent, Responsive School
In Chapter 1 we described the challenge of being a principal occupying the middle space between the decentralized contextual realities of classroom teachers looking to learn through bottom-up professional judgment processes and the centralized efforts of top-down system prescription. This, we noted, often results in an experiential tension for school leaders as they are pulled between various forms of these dichotomies. The consequence is an argumentative discourse, with principals caught between sets of what feel like “either/or” propositions that are all ultimately supposed to be about enhanced professional learning in the service of student achievement and success. And it becomes easy to lose sight of this core (and agreed-upon) improvement objective as otherwise well-intentioned people get caught ...
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