{"product_id":"dispositions-of-leadership-9781475836264","title":"Dispositions of Leadership","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDispositions of Leadership:  The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture stands alone as an approach for developing leaders who are adaptive and can thrive in unpredictable settings. Educational leadership is a domain of its own, apart from business and industry, combining an effective learning environment for students and adults.Dispositions are acquired in the interactions between skillful thinking and circumstances that defy simplistic solutions.  The five dispositions, as illustrated in the book, provide educational leaders with maps of the territory and examples of habits for intelligent responses to complex problems. Educational leaders must develop adaptive competence, the capability of applying prior leaning to a novel setting, while assessing the impact of potential solutions. This book challenges the utility of traditional command-and-control models that are no longer capable of supporting school leaders.  Grounded in extensive research and review of leadership literat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDispositions of Leadership: The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture is a treasure trove of insights for experienced and aspiring school leaders alike. The brilliance is in how the information is shared. It is not a \"how to book\" but rather a \"can do book.\" The dispositions are presented as a framework for thinking and learning, and it is up to the reader to transform this information into action. The research is rich and the supporting stories based on real experience are compelling. This book exemplifies potential and promise for today's school leaders. -- Russell J. Quaglia, Author of School Voice: The Instrument of Change; Principal Voice: Listen, Learn, Lead; and, Aspire High: Imagining Tomorrow's School Today, Executive Director, Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations School leaders who embrace the high goal that every child will grow and learn to their fullest will find this book speaking directly and personally to them. This is no cookbook with limited ingredients and oversimplified methods. It's a guide to the vital inner workings of successful leadership. Dispositions of Leadership: The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture reveals how effective leaders think flexibly, interact sensitively, and engage others in the solution of problems. Leadership here is responsive, creative, and adaptive - three essential qualities of the modern school seeking to accommodate the student diversity and demands of an ever-changing world. Practicing principals, teacher leaders, and others will find wisdom here to guide their daily rounds: five dispositions that they can practice and model for others and that can serve as the heart of their own learning and professional growth. This book deserves to be read widely. In its emphasis on networking leaders within and across districts in \"communities of leaders\" lies the key to our profession's future success. -- Gordon A. Donaldson, Ed.D., Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Maine This book offers a contemporary focus on five dispositions for leadership in an agile organization. The book offers a theoretical framework, indicators for changes in leadership roles, and practical examples of how it looks in schools that are transforming based on ever-changing internal and external demands. I am eager to give this tomorrow to school leaders with whom I work! -- Bena Kallick, co-founder and co-director, Institute for Habits of Mind How do we prepare leaders to work in this environment? Adaptability expressed by Heifetz years ago is becoming a necessary skills. By using the dispositions written about in this book, we can adapt our responses by creating a Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Agility. You will find several references to agility, as well as other foundational behaviors. It is knowing the dispositions and having the agility to use when necessary to confront, manage, and move forward in solving to be more successful in an ever-changing world. -- William A. Sommers, Retired Principal, Bricoleur and Leadership Coach If you could choose one book on the effective practices of the school principal in the 21st Century, this is the one!! The authors have synthesized salient research in the field of educational leadership and artfully applied it to the implementation of tools and dispositions of the craft. It creates a backdrop for personal reflection, metacognition and professional growth to become a dynamic leader in our ever-changing world. It is a must read for all educational leaders from the teacher leader, school principal to district administrator. -- Robyn G. Rehmann, principal coach and educational consultant, Anchorage, Alaska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedication  List of Figures  List of Tables  Foreword   Preface  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Complexity of the Contemporary Educational System  Why Are New Understandings of Educational Leadership Needed?  Learning Environments and the Need for Adaptive Competence  Habits of Mind or Dispositions  Educational Leadership in the Information Age  Overview of the Book  Questions to Engage your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues  References  Chapter One: What Effect Does Educational Leadership Have on Student Learning?  The Century-Long Evolution of Educational Leadership  Twenty-five Important Works in Five Tables  Efficiency, Bureaucracy, and the Heroic Leader - 1911-1967  Transformational Leadership and the Learning Organization - 1978-1990  Adaptive Leadership a Response for Addressing Complexity - 1993-2003  The Agile Organization and Adaptive Leadership - 2005-2009  A Home of Our Own Emerges: Leading Linked with Student Learning - 2011- 2013  Summary of the Five Tables and 25 Important Books for Leadership and Learning  A New Era of Leadership with Student Learning as the Pervasive Focus  Leadership Dimensions and Core Leadership Practices: Broader-Grained Work  The Three Capabilities and Four Pathways: Finer-Grained Leadership Work  Summary  Questions to Engage Your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues  References  Chapter Two: How Does an Agile Organization Support Contemporary School Leadership?  The Formal Organization: An Overview  Formal Organization: Routine Analytical and Routine Cognitive Problem Solving  Agile Organizations: Adapting the Formal Organization to Meet 21st Century Needs  Agile Organizations: Non-Routine Analytical and Interactive Problem Solving  Asserting Focus Amidst Complexity: A Challenge in the Information Age  Agility: Identifying the Type of Problem or Challenge  Technical Problems, Adaptive Challenges, and Polarity Management  Network-centric Collaborative Groups, Agility, and Decision-making  High-Performing Principal Teams and School-based Leadership Teams  Summary  Questions to Engage your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues  References  Chapter Three: What Are the Dispositions of Contemporary Educational Leadership?  What are Dispositions?  Why Dispositions?  Dispositions for Educational Leadership  What Roles Do Dispositions Serve in Leadership?  How are Dispositions Acquired?  Why Consider Utilizing Thinking Dispositions with Educators?  Dispositions Build the School Culture  The Five Dispositions of Leadership  Dispositions, Capabilities, and Practices: Ways of Thinking, Being, Doing  The Balcony and the Dance Floor  Summary  Questions to Engage your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues:  References  Chapter Four: Disposition: Thinking and Acting Interdependently  Capability One: Establishing and Maintaining an Environment of Trust that Includes Predictable Values and Predictable Skills  Capability Two: Identifying, Articulating, and Aligning with a Shared Vision that Addresses a Pervasive Focus on Student and Adult Learning  Capability Three: Promote a Group of Diverse Individuals to Access and Utilize Resources and Expertise Across a Broader Community  Capability Four: Setting Aside Your Own Preferences for the Benefit of All  Capability Five: Having the Capacity to Look at Things from Others' Point of View  Capability Six: Anticipating Ways to Support Others in the Collaborative Process  Summary  Middle School Vignette  Questions to Engage your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues  References  Chapter Five: Communicating to Influence  Capability One: Developing the Capabilities within Others to Interact Successfully  Discussion  Dialogue  Capability Two: Developing Personal Presence  Capability Three: Knowing When and Why to Integrate and Knowing When to Insert Oneself  Capability Four: Use Interpersonal Skills to Cultivate Working Relationships and to Motivate and Mobilize Others (Individuals and Groups)  Summary  Middle-school Vignette  Questions to Engage your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues  References  Chapter Six: Gathering and Applying Information for Change  Capability One: Systematically and Intentionally Gathering and Organizing Needed Data  Academic Content and Measures of Schooling  Student Engagement in the Behavior, Emotional, And Cognitive Dimensions  Information Collected for Evaluating Implementation Topics  Capability Two: Using data to inform actions  Capability Three: Developing and Nurturing an Environment of Inquiry and Innovation Grounded in Reflection and Continuous Improvement  Summary  Middle School Vignette  Questions to Engage Your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues  References  Chapter Seven: Seeking Support for Feedback and Learning  Capability One: Developing Self-Knowledge, Self-Awareness and Self-Efficacy While Maintaining a Sense of Humility   Capability Two: Frequently Seeking Feedback Focused on Learning and Professional Growth   Capability Three: Engaging in a Collegial Networked Leadership Community of High-Performing Teams of Principals   Problems of Practice Versus Practice-Based Evidence  Effective Networked Leadership Communities  Relationship Between Support, Resiliency, Feedback and Excellence  Professional Goal Setting  Capability Four: Creating Feedback Spirals for Continuous Individual and Organizational Self-Learning   Receiving Feedback  Giving Feedback  Summary  Middle School Vignette  Questions to Engage Your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues  Chapter Eight: Pursuing Adaptive Competence   What is Adaptive Competence?  Pursuing Adaptive Competence in Ambiguous Environments  Capability One: Using Self-Managing, Self-Monitoring, and Self-Modifying Skills to Inform Behaviors and Actions  Capability Two: Engaging Flexibly in Thinking and Behaviors  Capability Three: Solving Complex Problems and Addressing Adaptive Challenges  Summary  Middle School Vignette: Three Middle School Principals  Questions to Engage Your Thinking and Discussion with Colleagues:  References  Chapter Nine: Discovering Leadership Potential in an Agile Organization  Five Dispositions of Leadership:  1.Thinking and Acting Interdependently: Promoting a positive, collaborative learning culture through distributed leadership.  2.Communicating to Influence: Developing the interpersonal skills to influence, mobilize and motivate individuals and groups.  3.Gathering and Appling Information for Change: Utilizing data-based evidence to make decisions and provide formative feedback for setting direction and planning change.  4.Seeking Support and Feedback for Learning: Fostering personal\/professional growth and resiliency.   5.Pursuing Adaptive Competence (Keystone Disposition): Incorporating into practice metacognition and cognitive flexibility to effectively plan, reflect, diagnose, and solve complex problems.   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