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Synopsis
Improve the quality of organizational learning in your school. Leading a Learning Organization examines the role that emotion plays in school cultures and how current demands for rapid change and accountability contribute to levels of fear and stress. Dr. Reason draws on educational, psychological, and neuroscientific research to show how leaders can change the prevailing emotional climate or tone of a school to promote deeper learning at all levels. Principals and teacher leaders learn how to overcome obstacles to improve the emotional climate of schools, as well as explore the benefits of collaboration in building deep organizational learning. Practical strategies for enhancing organizational learning include change, analysis, and reframing; purpose-driven inquiry; the creation of a defined learning culture; conscious use of current scientific knowledge about the way memory works; and frequent, effective collaboration.
Benefits
Using the latest educational and neuroscientific research, this book explores:- Why the rapid pace of change in education has created more fear and stress and why we become addicted to them
- How school leaders can reduce the impact of negative emotions and promote empowering ones
- How to establish a more focused and effective work environment
- Why new knowledge about memory can enhance learning at all levels
- How to handle an overwhelming learning agenda
- How to make collaboration an integral part of school culture
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About the Author
Casey Reason has worked with hundreds of educational leaders from all over the world, from inner-city Phoenix to Auckland, New Zealand, on breakthrough strategies designed to improve performance and overcome resistance to change. At age 30, Casey was named principal of Whitmer High School, one of the largest urban schools in Ohio. Using innovative leadership and reform strategies based on collaboration, the staff of Whitmer led an impressive turnaround in student achievement and behavior.
Review
In Leading a Learning Organization, Casey Reason describes concepts and strategies we know to be essential for optimal classroom learning, including building a safe, connected, respectful learning environment, and applies them to learning organizations. Dr. Reason describes practical application of the research on the emotional and social factors affecting learning to everyday life within schools and other learning organizations. What a concept! This is great science made practical for leaders in the world of learning. -- -- --Bob Sornson, author of Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn
Is there anything more important than the effective education of our children? Casey Reason s very timely book on leadership focuses on principals and teacher leaders those closest to the kids. Reason makes a difficult and complicated subject, the science of working together, accessible to all. His practical strategies and solutions can uncover the greatness in everyone involved in schools. Educators should read and study this book and then make the necessary changes to improve our schools for the better. --Ken Blanchard, co-author of the One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level
NCLB, EOC, and standardized testing have done much over the past decade to instill fear. This author helps us to recognize this emotion and then to deal with it. . . . A must for every school leader and board member who wants success. --Barbara Erwin, Clinical Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, Indiana University
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