Independent School Leadership: Principles, Parables, Paradox - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Leading an independent school requires both study and practice. Akin to juggling a chainsaw, a bowling ball and an egg, leadership remains a fierce and delicate enterprise forsaking the faint of heart. It is an art of partnership with students, faculty, families, trustees and constituents demanding more hats than Bartholomew Cubbins. It is a persistent search for the enduring and the essential. It is a practical, daily activity of care, devotion and principle. It is an eternally paradoxical and creative endeavor rewarding its practioners with accomplishment never assured whose possibilities seem endeless.

This book summarizes the experiences of more than five hundred school heads. While each brings distinctive, even idiosyncratic approaches to their work, they share common goals for their kids, essential practices and mutual hopes for the future. This book is an invitation to both experiened and new school heads to contemplate their own experiences and principles in the company of their peers. Contemplation is a practical activity in a world demanding optimism, perspective and stratetic vision. How one views their experience might be the single element entirely within a leader's control.

The author led one boarding school for more than two decades, directed the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Independent Schools, led many worshops. These chapters coalesce that work into a school head's essential encounters and opportunities.

The fundamental assumption of this book is that school leaders know a great deal about independent schools, young people and education. But however much knowledge one achieves, responding to the eternally unpredictable "What about next time?" remains the persistent test of leadership. This book aims to strengthen a leader's confidence to face the persistent and paradoxical capacity for originality schools inevitably present

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