Renewal

Breathing New Life into School Leadership

Carolyn Cameron (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

170 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6927-9 (ISBN)

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The author’s aim is to encourage school leaders to jettison leadership principles based on factory models in favour of renewal, a completely different approach, with the objective of creating a school community that learns together.

Unquestioned educational practices must be re-examined. Now, more than ever, we need to breathe new life into school leadership to bring much-needed hope for renewal into our classrooms and schools. Our humanity’s future rests on the shoulders of our young people who deserve the most effective, empowered collective of teachers possible. Working and learning together with teachers across corridors, departments, and disciplines, school leaders can make this a reality.

In this one-of-a-kind exploration into the practice of school leadership, Dr. Carolyn Cameron moves beyond leadership theory or prescriptive “how to be a leader” guidelines. She courageously addresses the gap between knowing and doing, and takes a deep dive into the space of being a school leader dedicated to the work of nurturing the authentic learning of students and their teachers.

Cameron draws on her own lived experiences as a teacher, principal, and district principal. She adds to this personal journey the insights of colleagues, scholars, philosophers, and researchers, and takes inspiration from poets, writers, and students. This ground-breaking book weaves all of this together in a way that will cause the reader to think differently about teaching, learning, leading, and perhaps even life itself.

Carolyn Cameron draws on her rich experiences spanning over 30 years as a classroom, school, district, and provincial leader in education, identifies the complexity of school leadership that is embedded in relationship and grounded in learning. Cameron has presented at local, provincial, national, and international conferences on the power of collaboration among all members of the school community and it is this approach to leadership that earned her provincial recognition for excellence in teaching and leading.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Leaving the Old for the New

Part One: Room to Breathe

1Behold the Open

2Being Open

3Openings

Part Two: Fertile Ground

4A Different Way to Be Together

5Feeding Off Each Other

Part Three: Renewal

6 Networks of Influence

7Collective Leadership

8 Spreading Seeds

9Living the Questions

Conclusion: Dwelling in Possibility

Endnotes

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	08.04.2023
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4758-6927-4 / 1475869274
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-6927-9 / 9781475869279
Zustand	Neuware