Full Description
Fresh ideas to help you meet the challenges of innovative leadership!
Overcome the hurdles of being a school leader and stay ahead with this helpful guide to battling isolation and getting connected. Through powerful vignettes and strategies, you'll discover how innovation-minded school leaders connect to avoid isolation, lower stress, find support, and share ideas. Grow your professional practice and learn to:
Jumpstart and sustain your Professional Learning Network
Strategically and meaningfully connect with colleagues and staff
Overcome isolation for lasting impact
Includes tips for Twitter, Google Hangouts, Pinterest and more. Get real-world solutions with this easy-to-follow roadmap to transformational change!
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"School leadership is a challenge that is made more difficult through isolation, but it doesn't have to be that way. The authors lead you to reflect on what isolates you and share practical ways to help get connected. A must read for connected and soon to be connected leaders!"
Todd Whitaker, Professor of Department of Educational Leadership
Indiana State University
"Filled with real-time examples and reflection questions from three dynamic, active principals who've crafted their own connected and growing practices, this book is a comforting guide for anyone seeking to establish a personal or professional learning network, and lays a Twitter-connected path to the next steps of leadership development."
Kirsten Olson, Ed.D, PCC
Author of The Mindful School Leader and Wounded By School
Contents
Preface by Peter DeWitt
Introduction
1. On an Island by Yourself
What is Isolation and How Does It Impact You?
Professional Learning
Pitfalls
Conclusion
Reflection and Action
2. Finding Your PLN
Connection!
Establishing a Personal/Professional Learning Network
It's About Building Relationships
Starting Your Own PLN
Educator Spotlight: Christopher Nesi
Conclusion
Reflection and Action
3. Maintaining Balance
What Connected Educators Have to Say
Why You Might Feel More Isolated
Eduator Spotlight: Shawna Miller
Becoming the Linchpin
Conclusion
Reflection and Action
4. Embracing Isolation and Connection With Mindset
Introduction
What is Mindset?
Isolated by Principle
Connected by Principle
Educator Spotlight: Jay Posick
Conclusion
Reflection and Action
5. Now What, So What, What's Next?
Introduction
Now That You Know What You Know - So What?
How Can Your New Learning Help You Grow as a Leader?
What's Next For You?
