Full Description
Principles and possibilities to inform and inspire caring in your leadership practices!
Do you feel like something is missing in today's schools? Do you feel student success is too focused on academic accountability, test scores, and college readiness? Recalibrate your leadership with the help of this book to promote the practice of caring which, with academic rigor, is essential to effective schooling.
Caring School Leadership is a research-based collection of ideas, principles, and values illustrated with numerous examples and stories that will inform, inspire, and guide you. Evaluate your current leadership practice and evolve to lead in the way to which you aspire. In addition to insights and lessons about caring from educators and human service professions like nursing and ministry, readers will be introduced to themes of
· Caring in interpersonal relationships with students
· Cultivating schools as caring environments
· Fostering caring in families and communities
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction: Four Stories of Caring School Leadership
Ana
Giving and Taking the Chance
Seth
No One Graduates Alone
Chapter 1: Caring: The Heart of Caring School Leadership
A Case for Caring in Schools
What Do We Mean by Caring?
How Does Caring Work?
Cautionary Notes: Problems and Pitfalls of Caring
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 2: A Model of Caring School Leadership
Defining Caring School Leadership
A Model
Considerations for the Practice of Caring Leadership
Caring School Leadership and Educational Equity
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 3: Being Caring in Relationships with Students
Dynamics of Principal-Student Relationships
What Makes Student-Principal Relationships Caring?
Practices of Presence
Practices of Attentiveness and Inquiry
Interpersonal Communication With Students
Acting on Behalf of Students
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 4: Cultivating Schools as Caring Communities
The Meaning of Caring Community
Leadership as Cultivation
Approaches to Cultivating Caring and Community
Developing Capacity for Caring Community
Promoting Enabling Conditions
Engaging Parents and Caregivers
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 5: Fostering Caring in Families and Communities Beyond the School
Nature of the Work
Fostering Caring in Families
Fostering Caring in Communities
Insights From Community Organizing and Community Development
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 6: Developing Caring School Leadership
What Should Be Developed: A Review
Development Activities and Experiences
Learning From Experience
Avoiding the Problems and Pitfalls of Caring
Caring for Oneself
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
References
Index
