Build on your staff's strengths for optimized leadership Best-selling author Sheryl G. Feinstein demonstrates how educational leaders can apply a popular business prototype of leadership strengths and the latest brain research to lead effectively. Her new book, co-authored by veteran administrator and instructional leader Robert W. Kiner, outlines four leadership styles-executer, relationship builder, influencer, and strategic thinker-and shows how to capitalize on them to: Create a positive school culture Mentor and supervise teachers Keep track of standardized testing Foster community…mehr
Build on your staff's strengths for optimized leadership Best-selling author Sheryl G. Feinstein demonstrates how educational leaders can apply a popular business prototype of leadership strengths and the latest brain research to lead effectively. Her new book, co-authored by veteran administrator and instructional leader Robert W. Kiner, outlines four leadership styles-executer, relationship builder, influencer, and strategic thinker-and shows how to capitalize on them to: Create a positive school culture Mentor and supervise teachers Keep track of standardized testing Foster community partnerships Use data to inform curriculum and instruction The authors link current cognitive research with the challenges of educational leadership to make clear the links between neural wiring, learning, and leading.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Learn more about Sheryl Feinstein¿s PD offerings Sheryl Feinstein is an Associate Professor at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD where she teaches in the Education Department. She is the author of a number of books, including Secrets of the Teenage Brain 2nd Ed (2009), Corwin Press; The Praeger Handbook of Learning and the Brain 2 vol. (2006), Praeger Publisher; Parenting the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress, Teaching the At Risk Teenage Brain, and Inside the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress (2009), Rowman & Littlefield Publisher; 101 Insights and Strategies for Parenting Teenagers (Fall, 2009), Healthy Learning Publishers; and Tanzanian Women in Their Own Words: Stories of Chronic Illness and Disability, (2009), Lexington Press. In addition to teaching at Augustana College, Feinstein consults at a correctional facility for adolescent boys and at a separate site for Emotionally/Behaviorally Disturbed (EBD) adolescents in Minnesota. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2007-2008 to Tanzania where she taught at Tumaini University in Iringa and conducted research involving the adolescent. In 2006 she was a fellow at Oxford, UK. Prior to joining Augustana College, Feinstein was an administrator for a K-12 school district in Minnesota and taught in the public schools in South Dakota and a private school in Missouri.
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Dedication Foreword by Jerry D. Weast Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction 1. With the Leader s Brain in Mind Strength-Based Leadership The Workings of the Human Brain Conclusion Discussion Questions 2. Using Leaders Strengths to Create and Maintain a Positive School Climate What s the Point? The Brain and School Climate Putting It Into Practice Instruction and Learning Physical Environment Conclusion Discussion Questions 3. Mind Matters: What Leaders Need to Know About Students The Elementary Student s Brain The Secondary Students Brain Conclusion Discussion Questions 4. Best of Class: Leading Teachers Curriculum and Instruction Assessment 101 Instruction Technology: Your Brain On-Line Conclusion Discussion Questions 5. The Rubber Meets the Road: Supervision and Evaluation Extreme School Make-Over Empowerment Supervision Evaluation Conclusion Discussion Questions 6. Shared Leadership and Leading Teacher s Strengths The Human Brain Strength-Based Shared Leadership Leading Teacher s Strengths Conclusion Discussion Questions Appendix I: Stress, Teachers, and Students Appendix II: Family and Community School Partnerships References Index
Dedication Foreword by Jerry D. Weast Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction 1. With the Leader s Brain in Mind Strength-Based Leadership The Workings of the Human Brain Conclusion Discussion Questions 2. Using Leaders Strengths to Create and Maintain a Positive School Climate What s the Point? The Brain and School Climate Putting It Into Practice Instruction and Learning Physical Environment Conclusion Discussion Questions 3. Mind Matters: What Leaders Need to Know About Students The Elementary Student s Brain The Secondary Students Brain Conclusion Discussion Questions 4. Best of Class: Leading Teachers Curriculum and Instruction Assessment 101 Instruction Technology: Your Brain On-Line Conclusion Discussion Questions 5. The Rubber Meets the Road: Supervision and Evaluation Extreme School Make-Over Empowerment Supervision Evaluation Conclusion Discussion Questions 6. Shared Leadership and Leading Teacher s Strengths The Human Brain Strength-Based Shared Leadership Leading Teacher s Strengths Conclusion Discussion Questions Appendix I: Stress, Teachers, and Students Appendix II: Family and Community School Partnerships References Index
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