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Book SynopsisEducational 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.
Trade ReviewMinds 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
Do 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"
Principals 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
Table of ContentsForeword From the Right Side Acknowledgements Introduction Your Core; Your Ceiling Unit One: Forgiving in Advance Unit Introduction Chapter 1: People Watching Chapter 2: No Good Deed Goes Unsuspected Chapter 3: Wanting a Space Chapter 4: Roadchips Unit Two: A Different Dance Unit Introduction Chapter 5: Making Rules to Break Them Chapter 6: The Launch Chapter 7: A Word on College Unit Three: “Capital”-izing Unit Introduction Chapter 8: Hardball and Scouting Chapter 9: Getting Up, Then What? Chapter 10: Deflected Learning in Teaching Chapter 11: The Next 10,000 Hours Unit Four: Getting There from Here Unit Introduction Chapter 12: It’s Not School Improvement Chapter 13: What Does Buy-In Look Like? Chapter 14: Next Page of the Blueberry Story Chapter 15: Too Much Action Chapter 16: What’s Not Important Unit Five: A Left-Brained Off-Ramp Unit Introduction Chapter 17: Measuring Smarter Not Harder Chapter 18: The Name Game Chapter 19: Not All Good Teachers Are Effective Unit Six: Locking & Loading Unit Introduction Chapter 20: An “I” for an “I” Chapter 21: Two Wrongs Might Equal One Right Chapter 22: Knight Moves Chapter 23: Restraint and Combustion Unit Seven: The Clue Phone Unit Introduction Chapter 24: Leadership in Dog Years Chapter 25: Between Anything Relevant Chapter 26: A Reason to Perform Poorly Chapter 27: The Jeopardic Method Unit Eight: Undiscussibles Unit Introduction Chapter 28: Not Like the Picture Chapter 29: Do Schools Need Leadership? Chapter 30: A Principal’s Proper Parenting Chapter 31: Topics for Toasties Unit Nine: X-Ray Vision Unit Introduction Chapter 32: Organizational Illusions Chapter 33: Opportunity/Cost Chapter 34: Other School Seasons Chapter 35: Intentional Impracticality Chapter 36: Scrambles in Schools Unit Ten: Another Off-Ramp Unit Introduction Chapter 37: Upon the Labyrinth Chapter 38: Delta Force of Leadership Unit Eleven: Going Deep Unit Introduction Chapter 39: An Exercise Regimen Chapter 40: Each Day, an Interview Chapter 41: Rejecting Art in Leadership Chapter 42: In Leadership’s Wake Chapter 43: Doing Less, Intentionally Chapter 44: Ascension Chapter 45: The Moment Learning Happens Unit Twelve: Building a Cult Unit Introduction Chapter 46: Teachers Behaving Badly Chapter 47: Your School’s Culture Muscle Chapter 48: Power and Followership Chapter 49: Your Importance; Your Ceiling Chapter 50: Learning from Toxic Teachers Chapter 51: The Best Schools Have . . . Chapter 52: Your Cultural Investment When Time Allows . . . The Last Word Conclusion: Outroduction
