The Courage to Grow
Leading with Intentionality- Authors:
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- Publisher:
- 2012
Summary
The Courage to Grow: Leading with Intentionality shows educational leaders how to design and carry out a leadership professional development plan. It is a guide that allows leaders to construct their own learning to measure knowledge, assess growth, and improve performance. This training manual is for theteacher leader, beginning principal, practicing principal, assistant principal, department chair, district office administrator, aspiring leadership candidate, and professor of principal preparation.
Chapters begin with a section called Learning with Intentionality, as defined as an intense energy or desire to grow exponentially, followed by a personal application of Caring with Intentionality. Chapters 2 – 7 include a leadership self-assessment utilizing the ISLLC Standards and conclude with growth activities. Depending on their leadership roles, the readers can select activities best suited to grow performance from present realities to ideal conditions for learning. The reader is then encouraged to design a personal Action Plan that takes into account knowledge from each chapter, strategies for growing performance with intentionality, and self-assessment results. Finally, each chapter includes websites, resources, and activities to improve leadership.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-1601-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-1602-0
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 194
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- CONTENTS No access
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
- INTRODUCTION: Getting Ready for the Courage to Grow No access Pages 1 - 6
- Chapter 1. LEADERSHIP GROWTH: Knowing the Objectives of the Game No access Pages 7 - 16
- Chapter 2. A LEADER’S VISION: Making Our Dreams a Reality No access Pages 17 - 36
- Chapter 3. A CULTURE FOR LEADING AND LEARNING: Growing What Really Matters No access Pages 37 - 60
- Chapter 4. MANAGING AND LEADING: The Balancing Act to Optimize Learning No access Pages 61 - 82
- Chapter 5. PARTNERSHIPS: Growing Sustainable Relationships No access Pages 83 - 100
- Chapter 6. LEADERSHIP ETHICS AND INTEGRITY: A Code of Conduct for All No access Pages 101 - 120
- Chapter 7. THE POLITICS OF LEADERSHIP: Understanding and Responding to Political Perspectives No access Pages 121 - 134
- Chapter 8. TRAINING CAMP: Professional Development with Intentionality No access Pages 135 - 162
- Chapter 9. CELEBRATING WITH INTENTIONALITY No access Pages 163 - 180
- EPILOGUE No access Pages 181 - 182
- REFERENCES No access Pages 183 - 188
- INDEX No access Pages 189 - 192
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS No access Pages 193 - 194





