Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change

Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change
Authors - Lyle Kirtman & Michael Fullan

Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change combines the powerful decades-long work in leadership of authors and researchers Lyle Kirtman and Michael Fullan. They explore the pressures and complications of education today and inspire educators to create great and valuable changes in their practices. Kirtman and Fullan examine seven core leadership competencies for systemic change, combining them with real-world examples to help leaders produce greater focus, simplify their practices, cultivate effectiveness, set up enjoyable and innovative learning environments, and foster creativity and success.

K-12 school and district administrators, school board members, and policymakers will:
- Discover why it is a good time to be an education leader
- Interpret how leaders outside of education share common practices that have brought them success and use these strategies to inform their own leadership practices
- Study stories of district and school leaders who have broken out of confusing patterns of incessant initiatives
- See the seven leadership competencies in action
- Consider the four wrong policy drivers and the four right policy drivers
- Learn how to develop partnerships with colleagues to cultivate a support network

Published: 14th August 2015
ISBN: 9781936763528
Number Of Pages: 152
HB
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