Leadership For Green Schools

Author : Lisa A. W. Kensler,Cynthia L. Uline
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134737611

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Leadership for Green Schools by Lisa A. W. Kensler,Cynthia L. Uline Pdf

Leadership for Green Schools provides aspiring and practicing leaders with the tools they need to facilitate the design, leadership, and management of greener, more sustainable schools. Framed by theory and research, this text draws from the fields of sustainability science, built learning environment, and educational leadership to explain what green schools look like, what role school buildings play in advancing sustainable organizational and instructional practices, and why school leaders are "greening" their leadership. Sustainability can often seem like an unreachable, utopian set of goals, but this important resource uses illustrative examples of successful schools and leaders to show how establishing and managing green schools aligns with the work they are already doing to restore engaged learning within their schools and communities. Leadership for Green Schools is a unique and important resource to help leaders reduce the environmental impact of school buildings and immerse students in purposeful, meaningful learning for a sustainable, just future. Special Features: Examples from award-winning schools and leaders—best-practices and illustrative examples throughout make whole school sustainability come to life and show how green leadership is a real possibility for the reader. Aligned with Professional Standards for Educational Leadership—provides the tools necessary for leaders to advance sustainability goals while at the same time fulfilling the core purposes of their job. End-of-chapter discussion questions—valuable pedagogical tools invite personal reflection and conversation.

Author : Lisa A. W. Kensler,Cynthia L. Uline
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 1315880520

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Leadership for Green Schools by Lisa A. W. Kensler,Cynthia L. Uline Pdf

Leadership for Green Schools provides aspiring and practicing leaders with the tools they need to facilitate the design, leadership, and management of greener, more sustainable schools. Framed by theory and research, this text draws from the fields of sustainability science, built learning environment, and educational leadership to explain what green schools look like, what role school buildings play in advancing sustainable organizational and instructional practices, and why school leaders are "greening" their leadership. Sustainability can often seem like an unreachable, utopian set of goals, but this important resource uses illustrative examples of successful schools and leaders to show how establishing and managing green schools aligns with the work they are already doing to restore engaged learning within their schools and communities. Leadership for Green Schools is a unique and important resource to help leaders reduce the environmental impact of school buildings and immerse students in purposeful, meaningful learning for a sustainable, just future. Special Features: Examples from award-winning schools and leaders--best-practices and illustrative examples throughout make whole school sustainability come to life and show how green leadership is a real possibility for the reader. Aligned with Professional Standards for Educational Leadership--provides the tools necessary for leaders to advance sustainability goals while at the same time fulfilling the core purposes of their job. End-of-chapter discussion questions--valuable pedagogical tools invite personal reflection and conversation.

Author : Cynthia L. Uline,Lisa A. W. Kensler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000391190

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A Practical Guide to Leading Green Schools by Cynthia L. Uline,Lisa A. W. Kensler Pdf

This practical guide for educational leaders explores how you can transform your school or district into a vibrant center of learning and socio-ecological responsibility with only three manageable actions: taking students outside, bringing nature inside, and cultivating a mindset of awareness, responsibility, and empathy. This book is rich in practical, attainable approaches and stories of real actions taken by leaders, teachers, parents, and community partners to design, lead, and manage a vibrant, flourishing, sustainable learning community. Authors Uline and Kensler take you on an inspirational journey through nine key leadership strategies for you to begin or expand your work towards whole school sustainability.

Author : Andy Hargreaves,Dean Fink
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118429211

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Sustainable Leadership by Andy Hargreaves,Dean Fink Pdf

In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original framework of seven principles for sustainable leadership characterized by Depth of learning and real achievement rather than superficially tested performance; Length of impact over the long haul, beyond individual leaders, through effectively managed succession; Breadth of influence, where leadership becomes a distributed responsibility; Justice in ensuring that leadership actions do no harm to and actively benefit students in other schools; Diversity that replaces standardization and alignment with diversity and cohesion; Resourcefulness that conserves and renews leaders' energy and doesn't burn them out; and Conservation that builds on the best of the past to create an even better future. This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education—a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.

Author : Jennifer Seydel,Cynthia L. Merse,Lisa A. W. Kensler,David Sobel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000522969

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Trailblazers for Whole School Sustainability by Jennifer Seydel,Cynthia L. Merse,Lisa A. W. Kensler,David Sobel Pdf

What does it take to prepare students, teachers, and school staff to shape a just and sustainable future? In Trailblazers for Whole School Sustainability, you will meet educators and school leaders who are on the front lines of re-imagining school through the lens of sustainability. This book features inspiring stories from around the country, from urban and rural schools and districts, that highlight best practices and lessons learned from teachers, administrators, and students as they transformed their school communities for a just and sustainable future. These stories are structured around a practical framework that demonstrates how this work allows schools and districts to work smarter, not harder, by integrating sustainability and systems thinking into leadership; curriculum and instruction; culture and climate; and facilities and operations. While each school and district’s story in this book is different, the passion that drives each one to embrace sustainability in everything they do, from operations to curriculum, remains the same. Trailblazers for Whole School Sustainability shows what is possible when educators resolve to blaze a trail to re-imagine K-12 education for a just and sustainable future.

Author : Chan, Tak C.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466663138

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Marketing the Green School: Form, Function, and the Future by Chan, Tak C. Pdf

As environmental concerns become more prevalent, it is important for today’s youth to be exposed to green practices. The introduction of environmentally sound principles into educational systems and institutions helps establish a positive viewpoint on sustainability as well as promote green practices. Marketing the Green School: Form, Function, and the Future features the latest research surrounding the operational efficiency, financial and legal considerations, and effectiveness of environmentally friendly school systems, as well as the integration of environmental education curriculum. Investigating the impact a green environment has on student well-being and success, this book is an essential reference source for school superintendents, school business managers, contractors, architects, and civil engineers interested in the development and promotion of green initiatives in educational institutions.

Author : P. A. Duignan,Helen Cannon
Publisher : Aust Council for Ed Research
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781742860138

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The Power of Many by P. A. Duignan,Helen Cannon Pdf

Among the many challenges faced by educational systems in the 21st century, leadership succession is universally recognized as being a major concern. Rather than retain the current paradigm of a single figure at the top of the school hierarchy, leading researchers Patrick Duignan and Helen Cannon argue the case for a more inclusive, collaborative, and distributed leadership. In this book, they offer a series of alternative models and gather views from existing school principals to demonstrate what might be possible and what might work better than the model followed today. The Power of Many emphasizes how a new paradigm must work to retain those who are already in the job, but must also act to encourage potential candidates to apply for the job. The book offers specific recommendations and advice to system policy makers, human resource personnel, and to practitioners in schools, especially school principals and deputy principals, on new models and paradigms. Practical guidelines are proposed that offer sustainable leadership solutions and promote educational systems and schools as 'communities of learning.' Ultimately, The Power of Many shows how a shortage of principals can and must be substantially reduced, and the collective capacity of leadership in schools enhanced and sustained.

Author : Michael Fullan
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412904964

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Leadership & Sustainability by Michael Fullan Pdf

'Leadership & Sustainability' examines how the opportunity for new leadership can be leveraged to focus on sustainability of reform, & will identify barriers & strategies for moving in new directions. Fullan defines the meaning of 'sustainability' & the important part it plays in contemporary reform.

Author : Amzat, Ismail Hussein
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522558590

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Predictive Models for School Leadership and Practices by Amzat, Ismail Hussein Pdf

A successful administrator is one who applies suitable or appropriate leadership styles in various situations or contexts. It is crucial to investigate how effective administrators lead their organizations in challenging and difficult times, as well as promote the accomplishments of their organization. Predictive Models for School Leadership and Practices is an essential reference source that discusses academic administration as well as administrative effectiveness in achieving organizational goals. Featuring research on topics such as teacher collaboration, school crisis management, and ITC integration, this book is ideally designed for principals, researchers, academics, educational policymakers, and teachers seeking coverage on academic leadership and leadership models.

Author : Brent Davies
Publisher : Paul Chapman Educational Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412923964

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Developing Sustainable Leadership by Brent Davies Pdf

With today's increasing accountability requirements, developing and sustaining leaders is a major challenge for all educators. Developing Sustainable Leadership brings together eleven outstanding writers to provide insights, frameworks, and ideas on sustaining school leaders and developing values-based leadership to counter existing short-term management solutions. Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink, Michael Fullan, Brent Davies, Kenneth Leithwood, David Hopkins, Geoff Southworth, Brian Caldwell, Chris Day, Terrence Deal and Gib Hentschke represent some of the most powerful thinkers and writers in the educational leadership field. Their contributions take leadership thinking to the next level, help empower school leaders, and make this book a key source of strategies, insights, and frameworks for anyone involved in sustaining high-quality leadership.

Author : Jeffrey S. Brooks,Amanda Heffernan
Publisher : Information Age Publishing Incorporated
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1648022200

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The School Leadership Survival Guide by Jeffrey S. Brooks,Amanda Heffernan Pdf

Author : Jeffrey S. Brooks,Amanda Heffernan
Publisher : IAP
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648022210

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The School Leadership Survival Guide by Jeffrey S. Brooks,Amanda Heffernan Pdf

The School Leadership Survival Guide: What to Do When Things Go Wrong, How to Learn from Mistakes, and Why You Should Prepare for the Worst is intended as an uncommon guide for school leaders and a resource they can turn to when confronted with issues they might not normally face in typical practice. The book serves as a bridge between research and day-to-day school leadership, and is intended to help leaders and school communities improve in areas they routinely avoid. In this sense, the book is meant as a “go to” resource for principals, those who train and teach them, and scholars. Although authors recognize the complexity of issues raised in the book, each chapter has a “How to” “What to do” or “Why You Should” ethos in order to give the book a unifying structure and help provide a practical translation of research and theory into practice. Some of the issues addressed include: How to elevate student voice; How to navigate religious conflict in the school and community; How to improve support for LGBTIQ students; Why You Should develop a natural disaster plan; How to work against racism in the school and community; How to practice inclusion in the school; How to make a vision and mission come to life; How to manage relationships with difficult people; What to do when there is racial tension in the community; How to learn the history of your school and community—and why that matters; How to guide and support a leadership team, and; What to do in a school with low trust.

Author : Martin Coles,Geoff Southworth
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335224579

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EBOOK: Developing Leadership: Creating the Schools of Tomorrow by Martin Coles,Geoff Southworth Pdf

What is our best present understandingof good school leadership? How do I lead my school to make itrelevant to students of the 21st century? The idea for this book grew out of aninternational conference organized by theNational College for School Leadership,An International Future: learning frombest practice worldwide, which exploredinnovative and significant aspects ofeducational leadership and brought together internationalcolleagues to generate new understandings. The conference proved adynamic forum for debate for researchers, academics, policy-makersand practitioners. It was clear at the conference that there was aconsensus of understanding around certain key themes that crossednational boundaries. In Developing Leadership, well-knowninternational contributors explore this consensus to promote the keythemes which reflect our best present understanding of good schoolleadership, and to inform school leaders about leading edge thinkingwhich bears on their role. These key ideas, which are highlighted at various points throughoutthe book, are built around professional learning communities;distributed leadership; strategic thinking about ICT; sustainability;internship; mentoring and coaching. Contributors: Ray Bolam, Martin Coles, Gary Crow, Clive Dimmock,Dean Fink, David Green, Andy Hargreaves, Sing Kong Lee, BillMulford, Fred Paterson, Tony Richardson, Geoff Southworth, JamesSpillane, Louise Stoll, Ken Stott, Allan Walker, John West-Burnham

Author : Mike Bottery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 1350005266

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Sustainable School Leadership by Mike Bottery Pdf

"We live in a complex age, with multiple challenges to the practice of educational leadership, and where there is widespread evidence of individuals wanting to retire early from leadership positions, and of fewer wishing to take up the role. This highly experienced team of cross-cultural researchers combine scholarly research with over a decade of extensive empirical research using an innovative 'portrait' methodology to investigate the challenges that educational leaders on two continents currently face. The kinds of challenges described include: the personal (e.g. being new to the job, coping with the role, approaching retirement), the inter-personal (e.g. power relations, personal challenges with staff, parents and children), the local (e.g. issues faced by the school in the community), the national (e.g. government initiatives, inspection), the global (e.g. the impact of economic forces on political and institutional management). Sustainable School Leadership, then, contributes to the field of educational leadership in several ways. First, the authors bring scholarly enquiry to life by providing detailed descriptions of the challenges which individual educational leaders face in different cultures in a globalised world. Second, they show how the combined insights from individual portraits provide important and meaningful critiques of national policies and organizational functioning. Such critiques can then inform current and future leadership research through a better understanding of how links between the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of education promote or discourage school leaders' sustainability. Finally, the authors present important cross-cultural comparisons of eastern and western approaches to educational leadership, suggesting that sustainability - or a lack of it - may have different roots in different cultures. Sustainable School Leadership is relevant to students on educational leadership and management courses, academics and researchers and school leaders."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Author : Reginald Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Educational leadership
ISBN : 0134088778

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Practicing the Art of Leadership by Reginald Green Pdf

"Practicing the Art of Leadership by Reginald Leon Green presents success-proven practices, processes, and procedures grounded in time-tested theories, current research, and the creative, innovative, real-life experiences of educators in the field who are transforming underperforming schools into thriving educational learning communities. "-Amazon.com.