School Leader Problem-Solving Skills: Situational Judgment Tests from School Leaders is designed with the aspiring or beginning administrator in mind to help them grow in their role and become effective problem-solvers. The challenges presented in this book are real scenarios from practicing administrators. Each scenario includes answer options as well as the solutions utilized by the contributor. Additionally, the book includes a link to the Leader Acumen SELF assessment. This tool allows...

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North and Leadership Intelligence: Navigating with Confidence and Humility (forth coming in the fall of 2019), inthis book, Scenarios in Higher Education Leadership: Improving Your Leadership Intelligence Volume 2, Maulding Green and Leonard have provided the reader with a continuing series of situational judgement test (SJT) scenarios, used ina training process that assists both novice and experienced leaders to grow their Leadersh...

Much like Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Maulding-Green and Leonard have, in Leadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, ‘are leaders born or are leaders made?’ This theory is predicated on the idea that there is a genetic predisposition toward leadership via the vehicle of imprinting.The five critical factors which undergird the tenets of Leadership Intelligence, are delineated and developed through the lens of th...

As in Improving Your Leadership Intelligence A Field Book for K-12 Leaders, Maulding Green and Leonard have in, Improving Your Leadership Intelligence: Volume 2Scenarios in K-12Leadership, provided the reader with an ongoing series of situational judgement test (SJT) scenarios, used ina process that assists both novice and experienced leaders to grow their Leadership Intelligence. The main change in the content in this second edition is that all of the scenarios are based on the experience...

Much like Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Maulding-Green and Leonard have, in Leadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, ‘are leaders born or are leaders made?’ This theory is predicated on the idea that there is a genetic predisposition toward leadership via the vehicle of imprinting.The five critical factors which undergird the tenets of Leadership Intelligence, are delineated and developed through the lens of th...

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book A Field Book for Higher Education Leaders: Improving Your Leadership Intelligence, is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. The field book is replete with scenarios of actual higher education scenarios (including solutions and rationales) to guide the leader through analysis and reflection. Additionally, current and supporting readings along with variou...

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book Leadership Intelligence, A Fieldbook for School Leaders, is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. The fieldguide is replete with scenarios of actual K12 school incidents (including solutions and rationales) to guide the leader through analysis and reflection. Additionally, current and supporting readings along with various activities are included to aid...

What if learning was exciting?What if students felt important and empowered every time they walked into the building?What if parents looked forward to calls from their children's teachers and principals, instead of cringing when the school's number popped up on their phones?To Todd Nesloney and Adam Welcome, those aren't far-fetched what ifs; they can (and should)...

The roles and responsibilities of the pastoral leader have changed significantly in recent years. A Pastoral Leader's Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the pastoral leader's role in secondary school in the current climate and practical guidance on how to do the job. It includes information and guidance on: becoming effective in your role as a pastoral leader; how to get the best out of your tutor team; your role in managing pupil behaviour; working with a range of external agenci...

A principal's job is astonishingly complex, and its competing demands can be overwhelming, especially in the first few years. In this book, Jen Schwanke, a principal herself, provides a mentor's guidance to steer new principals through the period of adjustment and set the foundation for a long and rewarding career. The topics you wish your graduate program had covered are covered here—directly, practically, and without the jargon.Drawing on her own experience, Schwanke provides str...

Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a National Curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need. Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools lack the confidence and approach to design that would enable them to resolve what seems like an impossible dilemma.In this authoritative yet engaging book, Brian Male looks at how schools can mee...

Gunther, McGowan and Donegan draw on their own experiences and those of others in the field, to explain the importance of communication in school leadership. In focusing on the communication process—why it's critical for schools, and how it can be executed well—they make the case that communication must be a primary emphasis for leaders, not an afterthought.In Strategic Communications for School Leaders, the authors provide the insights and skills necessary for understanding the ro...