Reimagining School Leadership
Sustaining Improvement Through and Beyond Uncertainty
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School leadership is critical to advancing student achievement and other educational equity initiatives, but contemporary approaches to leadership and improvement are increasingly insufficient in a rapidly changing and increasingly unpredictable world.
With a focus on kindergarten through to twelfth grade schools, Reimagining School Leadership critically considers current conceptions of school leadership and school improvement throughout the U.S. and around the world. The chapters focus on leading through uncertainty, building sustainability, and advancing student experiences and outcomes beyond narrow quantitative outcome measures such as test scores, graduation rates and college admission rates.
Reimagining School Leadership challenges the limits of traditional approaches to instructional leadership by considering historical and contemporary problems confronting school leaders, the successes and shortcomings of current leadership and improvement approaches and suggest ways to reimagine school leadership through emerging leadership theories and their applicability to school leaders.
Chapter 1. The Challenge and Promise of Reimagining School Leadership; Sharon D. Kruse and David E. DeMatthews
- Chapter 2. Building and sustaining improvement in disruptive times: School Leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand; Michalis Constantinides
- Chapter 3. New Approaches to Complex Challenges: Leadership that Matters; Deidre M. Le Fevre
- Chapter 4. Reimagining Leadership for Symmetry: A Framework for Embedding Mutual Respect Into School Improvement Efforts; Whitney M. Hegseth
- Chapter 5. Critically Reflexive School Leadership and the Racial-Discipline Gap: Leading for Racial Justice; Conor L. Scott and Melinda M. Mangin
- Chapter 6. “But how will this improve outcomes?” Tensions and Lessons of Improvement During a Racial Equity Transformation at Paterson Public Schools; Patricia M. Virella
- Chapter 7. Leading through Climate Disasters and Environmental Injustice: Past, Present, and Future; Megan Rauch Griffard, Diamond Ebanks, and Jacob D. Skousen
- Chapter 8. Mindful Leadership: Cultivating Awareness, Wisdom, and Connection; Sharon D. Kruse and David E. DeMatthews
- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Reflections and Lessons Learned; David E. DeMatthews
David E. DeMatthews is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the director of the Texas Education Leadership Lab and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Special Education.
Sharon D. Kruse is Academic Director and Professor of Educational Leadership at Washington State University Vancouver.