{"product_id":"minds-unleashed-9781475818055","title":"Minds Unleashed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEducational leadership continues to be the most powerful key to ensuring the successful future of all other professions, and thus, the quality of lives for people around the world.  This book, your weekly reader, will allow you to have the conversations to help faculty and staff, to help kids. More importantly, these readings invite your thinking to go to different places in your mind as you search for meaning. They are designed to cause new thinking about some familiar issues, and of course, creativity in their solutions. It is this book's intent to offer solutions for leaders at all levels to do things right, and to do what's right, or better said, to do things right-brained. Our 52-weekly chapters will help you, first and foremost with your personal and professional capacities, as we address topics pertaining to all of the co-centric circles of impact noted above in the diagram.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinds Unleashed is a powerful ‘weekly read’ for leaders and teams, very unique in its approach, and certainly a way to get a group talking about some of the important issues we face in K-12 education.  I highly recommend it!  Having a book in which chapters can be read in just minutes at a time, in any order, is certainly something that I appreciate and can recommend to those in my professional learning network. -- Amber Teamann, principal, Wylie ISD\u003cbr\u003eDo you have 15 minutes a week to sharpen your leadership skills?  Minds Unleashed is a collection of 52 weekly readings that will give you a new way of looking at leadership. With fresh examples and vivid metaphor, this book will spark creative solutions to problems old and new. -- Daniel H. Pink, author of \"Drive\" and \"A Whole New Mind\"\u003cbr\u003ePrincipals are busy people. Our breaks are seldom, and lunchtimes frequently come after students have been dismissed. If we are not intentional with our time to reflect on practice, we risk becoming stagnant.  Ryan and Steve have provided educational leaders with a tool for reflection and growth. This book makes it easy to spend minutes each week reading and thinking about our teams, our school districts, and ourselves.  If you are looking for a book to help initiate conversations about leadership, challenging the status quo, and encouraging positive deviance, then turn to Minds Unleashed: How Principals Can Lead the Right-Brained Way. -- Michele Corbat, principal, Morrish Elementary School, Swartz Creek Community Schools\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword From the Right Side Acknowledgements Introduction Your Core; Your Ceiling Unit One: Forgiving in Advance \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 1: People Watching \tChapter 2: No Good Deed Goes Unsuspected \tChapter 3: Wanting a Space \tChapter 4: Roadchips Unit Two: A Different Dance \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 5: Making Rules to Break Them \tChapter 6: The Launch \tChapter 7: A Word on College Unit Three: “Capital”-izing \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 8: Hardball and Scouting \tChapter 9: Getting Up, Then What? \tChapter 10: Deflected Learning in Teaching \tChapter 11: The Next 10,000 Hours Unit Four: Getting There from Here \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 12: It’s Not School Improvement \tChapter 13: What Does Buy-In Look Like? \tChapter 14: Next Page of the Blueberry Story \tChapter 15: Too Much Action \tChapter 16: What’s Not Important Unit Five: A Left-Brained Off-Ramp \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 17: Measuring Smarter Not Harder \tChapter 18: The Name Game \tChapter 19: Not All Good Teachers Are Effective Unit Six:  Locking \u0026amp; Loading \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 20: An “I” for an “I” \tChapter 21: Two Wrongs Might Equal One Right \tChapter 22: Knight Moves \tChapter 23: Restraint and Combustion Unit Seven: The Clue Phone \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 24: Leadership in Dog Years \tChapter 25: Between Anything Relevant \tChapter 26: A Reason to Perform Poorly \tChapter 27: The Jeopardic Method Unit Eight: Undiscussibles \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 28: Not Like the Picture \tChapter 29: Do Schools Need Leadership? \tChapter 30: A Principal’s Proper Parenting \tChapter 31: Topics for Toasties Unit Nine: X-Ray Vision \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 32: Organizational Illusions \tChapter 33: Opportunity\/Cost \tChapter 34: Other School Seasons \tChapter 35: Intentional Impracticality \tChapter 36: Scrambles in Schools Unit Ten: Another Off-Ramp \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 37: Upon the Labyrinth \tChapter 38: Delta Force of Leadership Unit Eleven: Going Deep \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 39: An Exercise Regimen \tChapter 40: Each Day, an Interview \tChapter 41: Rejecting Art in Leadership \tChapter 42: In Leadership’s Wake \tChapter 43: Doing Less, Intentionally \tChapter 44: Ascension \tChapter 45: The Moment Learning Happens Unit Twelve: Building a Cult \tUnit Introduction \tChapter 46: Teachers Behaving Badly \tChapter 47: Your School’s Culture Muscle \tChapter 48: Power and Followership \tChapter 49: Your Importance; Your Ceiling \tChapter 50: Learning from Toxic Teachers \tChapter 51: The Best Schools Have . . .  \tChapter 52: Your Cultural Investment When Time Allows . . . The Last Word Conclusion: Outroduction","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040180371799,"sku":"9781475818055","price":64.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475818055.jpg?v=1750945972","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minds-unleashed-9781475818055","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}