Description
Build on your staff’s strengths for optimized leadership
Best-selling author Sheryl G. Feinstein demonstrates how educational leaders can apply a popular business prototype of leadership strengths and the latest brain research to lead effectively. Her new book, co-authored by veteran administrator and instructional leader Robert W. Kiner, outlines four leadership styles—executer, relationship builder, influencer, and strategic thinker—and shows how to capitalize on them to:
- Create a positive school culture
- Mentor and supervise teachers
- Keep track of standardized testing
- Foster community partnerships
- Use data to inform curriculum and instruction
The authors link current cognitive research with the challenges of educational leadership to make clear the links between neural wiring, learning, and leading.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword by Jerry D. Weast
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. With the Leader's Brain in Mind
Strength-Based Leadership
The Workings of the Human Brain
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
2. Using Leaders' Strengths to Create and Maintain a Positive School Climate
What's the Point?
The Brain and School Climate
Putting It Into Practice
Instruction and Learning
Physical Environment
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
3. Mind Matters: What Leaders Need to Know About Students
The Elementary Student's Brain
The Secondary Students' Brain
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
4. Best of Class: Leading Teachers
Curriculum and Instruction
Assessment 101
Instruction
Technology: Your Brain On-Line
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
5. The Rubber Meets the Road: Supervision and Evaluation
Extreme School Make-Over
Empowerment Supervision
Evaluation
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
6. Shared Leadership and Leading Teacher's Strengths
The Human Brain
Strength-Based Shared Leadership
Leading Teacher's Strengths
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Appendix I: Stress, Teachers, and Students
Appendix II: Family and Community School Partnerships
References
Index
