Education, Leadership
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Women Thriving in Leadership
Practices for Cultivating Wholeness and Community by Dr. Kathy Toogood
Women Thriving in Leadership is for all women who lead, aspire to lead, or wonder if they can lead. Dr. Toogood takes a holistic approach to leadership development, encouraging the reader to reflect on their experience and question assumptions...
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Leadership: Different & Servant-like
A Framework of Insight That Will Help You “Master” Servant-Leadership by Bruce Ratzlaff and Verna Ratzlaff
In Matthew 20:26, Jesus made this statement: “With you (Jesus followers) it (leadership) will be different (and servant-like).” So, is it? Is your leadership “different” in the ways intended by Jesus? Is your leadership correctly “servant-like?”...
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Profile of an Effective School Superintendent
by Dale Boddy
ABOUT THE INFORMANT Ed Noyce, the informant or subject of this field study, was the Superintendent of the Wapiti Falls School District in 1994. Pseudonyms are used throughout his story, but he is real and so are the people, events, and locations...
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The Restorative Principal
Leading in Education with Restorative Practices by Stephen Young
In The Restorative Principal, teacher and principal Stephen Young explores the basic tenets of restorative practices and how he uses them to create positive school climates; build relationships between staff, students, parents and the community;...
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LeaderShift 2020
Reinventing Our Schools For Extraordinary and Uncertain Times by Dr. Brian P. Chinni, Dr. Ian Jukes and Dr. Nicky Mohan
in·san·i·ty /inˈsanədē/ noun • doing the same thing you have always done, but expecting, wanting, or needing completely different results (Chinni et al., 2019) The modern age demands a modern education. We cannot continue to act in the same way...
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Takes More Than Heart
Changing the Journey's Challenges into Opportunities by Dennis Mellen
In life, you will encounter many obstacles, if you have not already. How you deal with these challenges will define your character. All about a driven heart and pure grit, Takes More Than Heart: Change the Journey’s Challenges into Opportunities...
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Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education
A Transformative Force by Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY (AI) IN HIGHER EDUCATION is a powerful resource for use in a complex world. AI, with its focus on strengths and what is working well, fosters positive and generative change. This book is a practical guide to the theory and...
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Servant Leadership and Moral Courage in Canadian Nursing
by Lawrence Onwuegbuchunam
This book explored the empirical works on servant leadership, and underscored the qualities of servant leadership such as: empathy, listening, awareness, healing, conceptualization, stewardship, persuasion, foresight, building community and...
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A Very Personal Leadership
A Work That Begins Within the Private World of Each One of Us by Colleen Mac Dougall PhD
Before leadership becomes a role or a position used to influence others, it is a personal story. It is a story about early memories, choices, mentors, journeys, challenges, and moments that shaped us. It is a story about innocence and pushing...
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The Soul of Place
Re-imagining Leadership Through Nature, Art and Community by Michael Jones
In The Soul of Place Michael Jones explores how our relationship with place aligns us with the underlying patterns of life. He does so through stories that ask: what is our experience of homecoming and how do we find our way there? What is our...
