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Book SynopsisAn unprecedented leadership challenge for school administrators
Today's school leaders face the unprecedented challenge of leading five generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and brand-new Generation Z teachers, along with Gen Alpha, today's youngest students. Based on extensive research and the author's experience working with thousands of educators and students, 5-Gen Leadership addresses the nuances and expectations implicit with leading each generation. With an emphasis on developing a multi-generational lens through which to view school improvement, this book covers topics such as recruiting and retaining today's young teachers, tailoring professional development for each generation, and helping each generation succeed in a complex, accelerating world. Readers will also find:
- Tactics for transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership and understanding the four distinct generations in the teaching staff
- Moving
Trade Review
Here is a publication that celebrates the different generations that schools now have teaching in and attending them. It offers practical tips to include the skills of all the generations to offer the best teaching and learning for everyone. -- Joy Rose, Retired High School Principal, Westerville City Schools
Where you stand depends sometimes on where you sit. And where you sit is often influenced by how and when you grew up. Mark’s analysis and unique understanding of the impact and needs necessary for today’s leaders to work with different generations is timely, relevant, and revealing. One size rarely fits all.
-- Jim Mahoney * Former CEO of Battelle for Kids *
There are so many nuances that take place within a school that we need to understand, and Mark White focuses on one of the most important. 5-Gen Leadership engages educators into understanding how different generations teaching within our school approach our greatest issues and provides the tools to begin those conversations. -- Peter DeWitt, EdD * Leadership Coach, Author, Collective Leader Efficacy and Instructional Leadership *
How do we prepare today’s students for the rapidly changing workplace and society in which they will live, work, and interact in an education system designed for a century that has passed us by? In 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Mark White clearly provides a well-lit path to assist educators to successfully make the necessary cultural, structural and instructional changes that are needed. -- Bill Daggett * Founder, International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) *
Table of Contents
Foreword Publisher’s Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: From Boomers to Alphas Understanding the Four Generations in Staffs Today Two Groups Are Trying to Lead, and Two Groups Are Trying to Fit In. Sort of . . . Millennial Teachers Are Walking Away Making Generational Adjustments Trouble in the Gen Z Teaching Pipeline Recruiting Gen Z Teachers Take Steps Now to Become a 5-Gen Leader And After We Recruit and Retain Them . . . Chapter 2: The Impact of the Silent Generation and Gen Alpha Lessons From the Silent Generation Gen Alpha, the New Generation Gen Alpha’s Impact on Education The Transcendent Power of Relationships Chapter 3: Moving From Managing to Coaching The Challenge of Transitioning to a New Model Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas: Handle With Care Coaching Into Grit and Professionalism Rethinking Evaluations New Channels for Communication Chapter 4: Teaching Distracted Generations Our Evolving Brains Distracted Students, Distracted Teachers Clues in the News Chapter 5: Tactics for Creating Multigenerational PD Acknowledging the PD Problem A Global Leadership Question: “How Do We Train These Different Generations?” Relevancy in PD Finding the Generations in the Staff Mind the Gap! Presentation Methods for Teacher Z Chapter 6 Generational Lessons of COVID-19 Gen Z and Gen Alpha: The New Lost Generations? The New Digital Divide A Flipping of the Paradigm Adjusting Mindsets Advice for Changing Mindsets The Digital Gap in Administrators Chapter 7: Upagers and Political Activism Gen Z Survivors Leading the Way on Gun Reform Gen Z Leading the Way in the Pursuit of Racial Justice Lessons From a University Protest The Coming of the Minority Majority Chapter 8: Millennials and Gen Z Ascending in the 2020s Four Key Points and Questions for the 2020s The University Model Could Affect the PreK-12 Model New Paths to Leadership The Future: Millennial Teachers, Gen Z Teachers, and AI Teachers? Being Human in the 2020s 50 Tips for Transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership References
