Stop Leading Like It's Yesterday! : Key Concepts for Shaping Today's School Culture

Leadership practices from the Industrial Revolution are no longer effective in 21st century classrooms. Explore the Leading for Excellence and Fulfillment model, and discover practical, research-based strategies that will be relevant to school leaders today and tomorrow. Integrate ready-to-use techniques into your current leadership practices to maximize learning and open up an unprecedented world of opportunities for both students and teachers.

Benefits:

• Learn to recognize educational practices that are outdated and irrelevant to today's students.
• Understand how leadership practices influence students' academic achievement and future success.
• Explore critical conversations leaders must have with their staff.
• Discover how to inspire team collaboration and innovation.
• Read success stories from actual educators.

Contents:
Introduction: Today Is Not Yesterday--Get Ready!
Chapter 1: Establishing Vision Clarity
Chapter 2: Generating Enhanced Reflective Learning
Chapter 3: Asking Meaningful Questions
Chapter 4: Inspiring Dynamic Innovation
Chapter 5: Developing and Enhancing Authentic Teacher Leadership
Chapter 6: Igniting Next-Level Collaboration
Chapter 7: Using Conflict and Repurposed Energy to Improve and Inspire
Chapter 8: Encouraging Will, Determination, and Resilience
Chapter 9: Developing Individual and Systemic Belief in Next-Level Performance
Chapter 10: Cultivating Organic Leadership
Epilogue: Coaching in Your Corner

Casey Reason, PhD, is an expert in collaboration, innovation, overcoming resistance to change, and next-level leadership. He has worked with a variety of clients, including some of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world.

Reason is a featured leadership scholar and a member of the Executive MBA Advisory Board for Colorado Technical University. He is also the core leadership content curriculum manager for the graduate college at Trine University in Indiana. In 2010, the University of Toledo named him Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.

His easily applied approaches are founded on the emerging body of research in brain science and adult learning theory. Reason has worked with leaders throughout the United States, Switzerland, India, and New Zealand. He earned a prestigious 2010 Blackboard International Exemplary Course Program Award for a doctorate-level leadership course he designed.