Genuine School Leadership Experience, Reflection, and Beliefs [Paperback]

This insightful guide explores the influence of values, experience, and beliefs on leadership practices and provides examples and reflective questions?for exercising authentic, moral leadership.This insightful guide explores the influence of values, experience, and beliefs on leadership practices and provides examples and reflective questions?for exercising authentic, moral leadership.Of the numerous education-related publications that I have read over the past 30 years, this is by far one of the most interesting and thought provoking. This book?is a contribution to the field, especially for practicing, experienced school principals and superintendents who believe in faith regardless of one's particular denomination. I especially like the sections that address the educational leader as one who has a calling to serve.?This is the first and only text that has adequately addressed why educational leaders do what they do! A wonderful tool for educational leaders in strengthening the skills needed to survive. More important, the book helps to cultivate leaders' learning communities and develop an understanding at different levels of what it takes to elevate and create schools that are effective in meeting the needs of all who comprise that community. Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Understanding Spirituality for Educational Leadership
Vignette
The Purpose for Writing This Book
Chapter Objectives
The Milieu
Human Insights and Spirituality
The Perspective of Inquiry
The Question of God in Spirituality
Neuroscience Research and Spirituality
The Problem of Evil and Spirituality
Summary
Illustration: A Case of Personal Belief
Exercise: Too Religious or Not?
2. The PersonalC¨