Deliberate Excellence
Three Fundamental Strategies That Drive Educational Leadership
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Leaders must continue growing, sometimes by gaining new knowledge through experiences and at other times by broadening perspectives about knowledge they have already attained. In this book, the author gives you three success principles for your leadership no matter what the complexities of your personal journeys are.
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Perfect for individuals and corporations alike, The Leader in Me shows how easy it is to incorporate these skills into daily life. It is a timely answer to many of the challenges facing today’s young people, businesses, parents, and educators—one that is perfectly matched to the growing demands of our certain future.
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Every day, leaders must continue growing, sometimes by gaining new knowledge through experiences and at other times by broadening perspectives about knowledge they have already attained.
Our actions will not change unless our beliefs change and our beliefs will not change unless our values change.
In terms of education, ensure you are deciding on behalf of all children in the same vein you would make it if it were your own child. This standard raises the bar, which is where it should be.
Equality engenders a sense that someone must “lose” for others to gain because you cannot make people equal. However, equity is different. When we operate through an equity lens, we ensure every single person with whom we interact, whether he is a student, teacher, or employee, is given exactly what he or she needs to be successful.
The leader must start with effectively building a collective sense of awareness for what equity truly is and why equity is necessary, and he or she must establish a case for how equity can be feasibly and successfully implemented for the benefit of all students involved.
To effectively accomplish the work, you must hone your skills and learn how to build awareness for equity by building a case for it that no one can resist. The key is to analyze your student data from all perspectives.
To implement change successfully, leaders need to work with and through people. For this reason alone, people should be important to you.
Before people allow you to lead them, they want to know you are truly informed about the current state of affairs and that you are not coming into the organization like a tornado making random changes without any regard for its present status. Before they will allow you to show them a new perspective, they must first trust you.
For best results when learning about the organization prior to change, focus as much as possible on what the organization’s culture looks and feels like—how business is really done.
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