Description
Book SynopsisThe School Leadership Survival Guide: What to Do When Things Go Wrong, How to Learn from Mistakes, and Why You Should Prepare for the Worst is intended as an uncommon guide for school leaders and a resource they can turn to when confronted with issues they might not normally face in typical practice. The book serves as a bridge between research and day-to-day school leadership, and is intended to help leaders and school communities improve in areas they routinely avoid. In this sense, the book is meant as a “go to” resource for principals, those who train and teach them, and scholars. Although authors recognize the complexity of issues raised in the book, each chapter has a “How to” “What to do” or “Why You Should” ethos in order to give the book a unifying structure and help provide a practical translation of research and theory into practice.
Some of the issues addressed include:
- How to elevate student voice;
- How to navigate religious conflict in the school and community;
- How to improve support for LGBTIQ students;
- Why You Should develop a natural disaster plan;
- How to work against racism in the school and community;
- How to practice inclusion in the school;
- How to make a vision and mission come to life;
- How to manage relationships with difficult people;
- What to do when there is racial tension in the community;
- How to learn the history of your school and community—and why that matters;
- How to guide and support a leadership team, and;
- What to do in a school with low trust
Table of Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Introduction
- SECTION I: RELATIONSHIPS.
- Secrets to a More Successful Partnership Between Students and Teachers
- How School Leaders Can Respond to Bullying in Schools: Tools, Tips, and Tasks for Understanding Policy, Creating Interventions, and Adopting Data-Based Decisions
- How to Learn From Mistakes: The Value of Understanding a Student’s Cultural Wealth as a School Leader
- SECTION II: LEADING IN A CHANGING WORLD.
- When Leaders Grow, They Grow Others: Overcoming Immunity to Change
- How to Exercise Moral Leadership in the Current Social and Political Climate
- Green School Leadership: The What, How, and Why
- Glocalization: Issues and Strategies for School Leadership
- Merging Schools and Communities: Engaging in Activist Leadership Beyond Your School Walls
- How to Value Social Media Use in Education
- How to Build a Positive Digital Footprint for Your School and for Your Students
- SECTION III: SUPPORTING STUDENTS.
- Educational Leadership and the Challenge of Engaging Young People in Meaningful Learning
- Beyond Order: How to Use Restorative Justice to Make School Meaningful and Manageable
- How to Support Students of Refugee Background in Your School
- How to Create Safe and Supportive Schools for LGBTQ People
- Strategies for Educational Leaders Navigating Religious Conflict in the School and Community
- Why You Should Create a LGBTQ+ Inclusive Environment for Middle Schoolers and Their Families
- How Multi-Tiered Systems Can Support Equity and Excellence
- So You Want to Make a Special Education Referral: How to Foster Equity and Understanding Special Education Policy
- Understanding Fat Pedagogy for Inclusive Practice inInternational Service Learning and Adventure Travel
- Islam and the Schoolhouse: How Principals Can Understand and Support Their Muslim Students, Teachers, and Families
- Howto Make a School Less White
- Leading Toward Normalcy and Well-Being in a Time of Extreme Stress and Crises
- SECTION IV: YOUR APPROACHES TO LEADERSHIP.
- How to Find Your Focus: Deciding What Matters for Your School Community
- How to Not Be Seduced By Common Sense
- Why You Should Reject Entrepreneurial Leadership
- All Out All Change: How to Implement NewCurriculum in Your School
- What School Leaders Need to Know About Education Policy: A Critical Perspective and a Toolkit for Enactment
- Leading to Survive: How School Leaders Can Practice Work-Life Integration
- SECTION V: HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP.
- The Importance of Trust When Leading in Times of Change
- How to Manage Relationships With Difficult People
- How to Cultivate Emotional and Social Competence in School Leadership: A Service-Learning Perspective
- Who’s Afraid of the Students’ Voice? About Teacher Evaluation and Considering Students’ Role in School Improvement
- About the Authors.
