Establishing a Leadership Mindset

Tony Holland

doi:10.5771/9781475863666

Summary

By developing a leadership mindset, teachers are better able to inspire and facilitate a deeper and more meaningful learning environment. Establishing a Leadership Mindset: A Guide to Using the Power of the Human Brain to Motivate Learning, provides educators with high-impact strategies supported by recent advances in cognitive science and brain physiology. Furthermore, because these strategies support productive neuronal growth, they ensure maximum learning for a greater diversity of students, leading to a closure of achievement gaps and more equitable opportunities for success. These strategies are universal, can be adapted to any subject matter at any level, and have been replicated in the crucible of the classroom, department, division, college, and system with amazing results.

Using the multiplying effects of a leadership mentality with a team or organization is a buy-in to constant improvement—for students, teachers, employees, and supervisors. The inspirational goal of providing a learning/growth environment that moves others beyond their self-perceived limitations can be shared by all leaders, whether they lead students, children, athletes, employees, soldiers, colleagues, or others. By applying the concepts and principles in this book, readers can implement a lead-by-example approach that will allow them to enhance their own lives in their journey to enhancing the lives of others.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6364-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6366-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 216
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. 1. Community College Teaching No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Mindset over Skillset No access
2. Growth Mindset No access
3. Developing a Growth Mindset No access
4. Whatever It Takes to Loosen the Nut No access
5. Enemies of Constant Improvement No access
1. It’s All About the Learning No access
2. Mindset for Effective Leadership No access
3. The Community College Mission—Activating the Leadership Mindset No access
4. Leadership Mindset Development No access
1. “So, You Just Want Me to Lower the Rigor/Standards?” No access
2. “I Told Them What to Do; It’s Not My Fault They Didn’t Do It!” No access
3. “It is My Course—I Can Do What I Want” No access
4. “I Could Teach Them if You Would Send Me More Motivated Students Willing to Learn” No access
5. “I Asked the Class if There Were Any Questions and Nobody Replied. I Even Asked Them to Come By my Office if They Needed Assistance” No access
6. “It is Not My Job to Teach Them Basic Life Skills—That Is Their Parents’ Job” No access
7. “Are We Supposed to Just Give Out Grades?” No access
8. “How Will Using Effective Learning Strategies Prepare Them for University?” No access
9. “I Guess We Must Be All Things to All Students” No access
10. “They Are Not Trying Hard Enough or ARE NOT Motivated Enough” No access
1. The Power of At-Scale Participation No access
2. Only New Mistakes Allowed No access
3. CC the MVP No access
4. Using Kaizen to Overcome a Sense of Hopelessness No access
1. Intentionally Teaching What? No access
2. Intentionally Addressing Content Tyranny No access
3. Great Teachers Lead and Great Leaders Teach—with Intentionality No access
4. Intentional Student Interventions No access
5. To-Do List Intentionality No access
6. Intentionally Preparing Each Step of the Lesson No access
7. Intentional Institutional Support of Faculty No access
1. Assess Student Perceptions No access
2. The Importance of Clear Learning Objectives No access
3. Utilize Lecture Videos No access
4. Frequent Formative Assessments No access
5. Employ Early and Intrusive Interventions No access
6. Synergetic Strategies No access
1. Why Do We Need to Change? No access
2. The Brain-Based Learning Cycle and Lesson Plans No access
3. The Four Parts to a Lesson No access
1. Where to Start? No access
2. Culture of Evidence No access
3. Using Data Effectively No access
1. Lessons from an ILA No access
2. Data and Testimonials No access
Appendix A No access Pages 203 - 204
Appendix B No access Pages 205 - 206
Appendix C No access Pages 207 - 208
Appendix D No access Pages 209 - 210
Appendix E No access Pages 211 - 212
References No access Pages 213 - 216