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9781119222224 English 1119222222 An organizational approach to more effective school leadership, online and off "Leadership, especially in a school setting, is too important to be merely intuitive. In this generous book, Steve and Reshan outline a new way of thinking for a new kind of leader. Recommended." Seth Godin, author of What to Do When it's Your Turn (and it's Always Your Turn) "If you're a school leader, Blending Leadership is the book you need to guide your thinking in today's increasingly networked educational environment. Your students and staff may have varying degrees of comfort with technology, but this book will give you solid guidance on how to lead them both online and offline and chart a path to the future." Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive Blending Leadership provides all school leaders with a unique approach to utilizing technology for more effective learning and leadership. As the online aspects of schools become just as important as their brick-and-mortar counterparts, leaders must be as effective screen-to-screen as they are face-to-face. Drawing from research, experience, and real-world examples, this book explores and unpacks six core beliefs necessary for the blended leader to succeed. Between email, websites, apps, updates, tweets, attachments, infographics, YouTube, and unceasing notifications, most people are inundated with digital detritus, and they either grow to ignore it or get swept under it. Effective blended leaders see these distractions as spurs to action, models, test cases, remixable commodities, and learning opportunities. Blending Leadership gives you the perspective you need to excel and the knowledge to leverage the tools at your disposal., Under-recognized and increasingly important, online leadership shapes what our schools are and what our schools will become.This is a book about organizational leadership, framed through the lens of school leadership. The savviest leaders understand that, increasingly, leadership happens in a mix of online and offline spaces. They take this condition as reality, and an inspiring one at that. The book covers everything from the leadership canon (Drucker and servant leadership, for example) to newer imperatives (design thinking and content marketing, for example) and detail the work of many school leaders across the country. It focuses on nine core practices for leading online: # 1: Online leaders engage with / as thought leaders # 2: Online leaders design / care for spaces # 3: Online leaders ask for help / accept help # 4: Online leaders challenge / change meeting structures # 5: Online leaders articulate / advance a mission # 6: Online leaders reject insularity / reject knowledge hoarding # 7: Online leaders plan for today / plan for obsolescence # 8: Online leaders keep the offramp open / use it frequently # 9: Online leaders aspire to / team around digital making We cover everything from the leadership canon (Drucker and servant leadership, for example) to newer imperatives (design thinking and content marketing, for example) and detail the work of many school leaders across the country.
9781119222224 English 1119222222 An organizational approach to more effective school leadership, online and off "Leadership, especially in a school setting, is too important to be merely intuitive. In this generous book, Steve and Reshan outline a new way of thinking for a new kind of leader. Recommended." Seth Godin, author of What to Do When it's Your Turn (and it's Always Your Turn) "If you're a school leader, Blending Leadership is the book you need to guide your thinking in today's increasingly networked educational environment. Your students and staff may have varying degrees of comfort with technology, but this book will give you solid guidance on how to lead them both online and offline and chart a path to the future." Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive Blending Leadership provides all school leaders with a unique approach to utilizing technology for more effective learning and leadership. As the online aspects of schools become just as important as their brick-and-mortar counterparts, leaders must be as effective screen-to-screen as they are face-to-face. Drawing from research, experience, and real-world examples, this book explores and unpacks six core beliefs necessary for the blended leader to succeed. Between email, websites, apps, updates, tweets, attachments, infographics, YouTube, and unceasing notifications, most people are inundated with digital detritus, and they either grow to ignore it or get swept under it. Effective blended leaders see these distractions as spurs to action, models, test cases, remixable commodities, and learning opportunities. Blending Leadership gives you the perspective you need to excel and the knowledge to leverage the tools at your disposal., Under-recognized and increasingly important, online leadership shapes what our schools are and what our schools will become.This is a book about organizational leadership, framed through the lens of school leadership. The savviest leaders understand that, increasingly, leadership happens in a mix of online and offline spaces. They take this condition as reality, and an inspiring one at that. The book covers everything from the leadership canon (Drucker and servant leadership, for example) to newer imperatives (design thinking and content marketing, for example) and detail the work of many school leaders across the country. It focuses on nine core practices for leading online: # 1: Online leaders engage with / as thought leaders # 2: Online leaders design / care for spaces # 3: Online leaders ask for help / accept help # 4: Online leaders challenge / change meeting structures # 5: Online leaders articulate / advance a mission # 6: Online leaders reject insularity / reject knowledge hoarding # 7: Online leaders plan for today / plan for obsolescence # 8: Online leaders keep the offramp open / use it frequently # 9: Online leaders aspire to / team around digital making We cover everything from the leadership canon (Drucker and servant leadership, for example) to newer imperatives (design thinking and content marketing, for example) and detail the work of many school leaders across the country.