Blending Leadership E-Book

Stephen J. Valentine

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 389

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

An organizational approach to more effective school leadership, online and off "Leadership, especially in a school setting, is too important to be merely intuitive. In this generous book, Steve and Reshan outline a new way of thinking for a new kind of leader. Recommended." Seth Godin, author of What to Do When it's Your Turn (and it's Always Your Turn) "If you're a school leader, Blending Leadership is the book you need to guide your thinking in today's increasingly networked educational environment. Your students and staff may have varying degrees of comfort with technology, but this book will give you solid guidance on how to lead them both online and offline and chart a path to the future." Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive Blending Leadership provides all school leaders with a unique approach to utilizing technology for more effective learning and leadership. As the online aspects of schools become just as important as their brick-and-mortar counterparts, leaders must be as effective screen-to-screen as they are face-to-face. Drawing from research, experience, and real-world examples, this book explores and unpacks six core beliefs necessary for the blended leader to succeed. Between email, websites, apps, updates, tweets, attachments, infographics, YouTube, and unceasing notifications, most people are inundated with digital detritus, and they either grow to ignore it or get swept under it. Effective blended leaders see these distractions as spurs to action, models, test cases, remixable commodities, and learning opportunities. Blending Leadership gives you the perspective you need to excel and the knowledge to leverage the tools at your disposal.

Leseprobe

PRAISE FOR BLENDING LEADERSHIP

“Blending Leadership combines detailed research with narrative familiar to every educator as the authors explore and explain the rapidly evolving arena of leadership in a digital age… . As our school organizations become increasingly fluid and evolutionary, the effective leader will leverage technical literacy and abilities in ways that will amplify the effectiveness of our collective mission of great learning for each individual student. The book, written by co-authors with extensive experience in the trenches of great learning, brings to light opportunities for this leverage for teachers, administrators, and students across every facet of our schools.”

Grant Lichtman, author of #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education

“In Blending Leadership, authors Valentine and Richards encourage independent school leaders to take a ‘design pause’ by using greater intention in how they communicate and collaborate. At a time when we all need to challenge our traditional thinking and the status quo for doing business as 21st century independent schools, Blending Leadership offers practical examples that demonstrate how independent schools have the potential to serve as catalysts for the very conversations we need to have the most.”

Jeffrey Shields, president and CEO, National Business Officers Association (NBOA)

“This book captures the iterative exploration of Stephen Valentine and Reshan Richards as they seek to show how leadership really works. Sketchnotes by Brad Ovenell-Carter add a rich, visual dimension that create an engaging guide for a new generation of learners.”

Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook

“Blending Leadership comes at the perfect time for today's digital leaders. The title captures the opportunities and challenges of leadership and the book recognizes that technology is not a zero sum game. Successful approaches to digital leadership in today's schools are not binary. With colorful examples and lively metaphors, Blending Leadership is a practical guide that today's school leaders will call upon over and over again.”

Matt Levinson, head of school, University Prep, and author of From Fear to Facebook: One School's Journey

“With riveting storytelling, Reshan and Steve tell the stories of K-12 educational leaders who are thriving in online, offline, and blended environments. A mix of theory and practical ideas, the text encourages you to make both big changes and small tweaks to the ways you communicate and organize learning.”

Dr. Kristen Swanson, cofounder of the Edcamp Movement

“In the expertly crafted Blending Leadership, Valentine and Richards, along with the phenomenal sketchnotes of Ovenell-Carter, treat the reader to an insightful look at the ways that leaders can truly embrace a culture shift to become even more effective. The book offers deep examples that are well referenced and researched and has many anecdotes that help put the concepts into context. The practical suggestions of implementation are scaffolded and varied in their approach. This is leadership in practice as well as a must-read for educators everywhere.”

Adam Bellow, educational technologist and founder of eduTecher/eduClipper

“Valentine and Richards have created a practical technology-blended roadmap for school leaders in their book. With stories of successful practices, validation from leadership experts, and ideas on how to use technology effectively in a leadership role, their book is a must-read for administrators and aspiring administrators!”

Kathy Schrock, educational technologist, kackl! and adjunct faculty, Wilkes University

“In Blending Leadership: Six Simple Steps for Leading Online and Off, Reshan Richards and Stephen Valentine have created a thoughtful and invaluable guide for school administrators in an age of ubiquitous online connectivity. With their impressive understanding of conceptual frameworks and practical realities, Richards and Valentine adeptly convey that successful blended school leaders ‘lead the learning and lead by learning’ by helping others and learning themselves, and that effective school leaders of online learning do not operate in isolation, but rather are part of a broad, community plan for learning… . With Blending Leadership, school leaders now have a powerful guide and ally in their community's online and offline developmental journey.”

Tom Daccord, director and cofounder of EdTechTeacher

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Valentine, Stephen J., author. | Richards, Reshan, 1978- author. | Ovenell-Carter, Brad, illustrator.

Title: Blending leadership : six simple beliefs for leading online and off / Stephen J. Valentine, Dr. Reshan Richards ; sketchnotes by Brad Ovenell-Carter.

Description: San Francisco, CA :Jossey-Bass, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016006369 | ISBN 9781119222057 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781119222156 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781119222224 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Educational leadership. | Educational technology.

Classification: LCC LB2806 .V24 2016 | DDC 371.2/011—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016006369

Cover design: Wiley

Cover illustrations: ©Brad Ovenell-Carter

first edition

Steve dedicates this book to Chloe, Hunter, and Amy.

Reshan dedicates this book to his late father-in-law, Robert A. Butler.

PREFACE

This book started as a 60-minute presentation in which we explored and examined what school leadership looks like in online spaces. After the presentation, we looked at our pile of notes—scrawled on hotel pads and iPad screens—and decided to write down an expanded narrative, adding examples and expressing our beliefs.

At that time, Reshan was beginning his involvement with the Apple Distinguished Educators program, and he had learned the ins and outs of Apple's iBooks Author platform. Given the spontaneous nature of our project, we used that software to publish a first edition of our book. Our goals were to move fast, ship quickly, fix bugs as they appeared, and explore the dynamic possibilities—live Twitter feeds, swipe-ready images, open communication channels between reader and authors—of publishing online.