Full Description
This is a practical guide for school leaders who want to understand more about how to connect teaching and learning with wellbeing in their school.
This book reimagines school leadership beyond roles and networks and explores new practical possibilities for leading pedagogy. The emphasis is on knowing students and how they learn, and supporting leaders to create sustainable, productive learning environments where wellbeing and learning are integral. The book brings theory and practice together through case studies from work in schools, linking the 'Why?' with the 'How', and makes authentic connections between leading pedagogy and wellbeing through practical strategies and clear principles. Further, the book addresses issues of workload and leadership succession through collaborative job design, with the aim of improving psychosocial safety for all students and school staff.
Drawing on the authors' experience in school leadership and clinical and organisational psychology, this book is designed for school leadership teams looking to work cohesively together, while prioritising wellbeing. It will also be relevant to postgraduate studies in educational leadership.
Contents
Introduction: Pedagogy: leading learning and wellbeing in schools 1. Understanding the context of your school 2. Knowing yourself and others 3. What is wellbeing and what can you do to increase it? 4. Trust and psychological safety 5. The expansive role of leaders: what do you do, what could we do? 6. Mastering the practices of leading together - collaboration, capability 7. Leading together: solidarity and purpose from collective agency and autonomy 8. How will we get there? Collective job crafting
