Minds Unleashed: How Principals Can Lead the Right-Brained Way - Softcover

Minds Unleashed is a powerful `weekly read' for leaders and teams, very unique in its approach, and certainly a way to get a group talking about some of the important issues we face in K-12 education. I highly recommend it! Having a book in which chapters can be read in just minutes at a time, in any order, is certainly something that I appreciate and can recommend to those in my professional learning network. -- Amber Teamann, principal, Wylie ISD Do you have 15 minutes a week to sharpen your leadership skills? Minds Unleashed is a collection of 52 weekly readings that will give you a new way of looking at leadership. With fresh examples and vivid metaphor, this book will spark creative solutions to problems old and new. -- Daniel H. Pink, author of "Drive" and "A Whole New Mind" Principals are busy people. Our breaks are seldom, and lunchtimes frequently come after students have been dismissed. If we are not intentional with our time to reflect on practice, we risk becoming stagnant. Ryan and Steve have provided educational leaders with a tool for reflection and growth. This book makes it easy to spend minutes each week reading and thinking about our teams, our school districts, and ourselves. If you are looking for a book to help initiate conversations about leadership, challenging the status quo, and encouraging positive deviance, then turn to Minds Unleashed: How Principals Can Lead the Right-Brained Way. -- Michele Corbat, principal, Morrish Elementary School, Swartz Creek Community Schools

Educational leadership continues to be the most powerful key to ensuring the successful future of all other professions, and thus, the quality of lives for people around the world. This book, your weekly reader, will allow you to have the conversations to help faculty and staff, to help kids. More importantly, these readings invite your thinking to go to different places in your mind as you search for meaning. They are designed to cause new thinking about some familiar issues, and of course, creativity in their solutions. It is this book s intent to offer solutions for leaders at all levels to do things right, and to do what s right, or better said, to do things right-brained. Our 52-weekly chapters will help you, first and foremost with your personal and professional capacities, as we address topics pertaining to all of the co-centric circles of impact noted above in the diagram."