Leadership in recent years has become a growth industry. Politicians demand more of it, academics decry the lack of it, and potential school leaders are deciding to hell with it ..we are making the business of leadership so complicated that we seem to need John Wayne at his mythological best or Xena the Warrior Princess to run a school.

Most educational leaders are not heroic but rather ordinary people who through extraordinary commitment, effort, and determination have become extraordinary, and have made the people around them exceptional. Educational leadership is more art than science; it is more about character than technique; it is more about inspiration than charisma; it is more about leading students and teachers learning than the management of things

This resource for prospective and practising school leaders:

motivates and inspires

addresses the challenges of contemporary school leadership

presents a model for leadership development, selection and succession

challenges existing and prospective leaders to develop and live by a set of core values based on students learning

describes and explains the learnings required by effective leaders of learning

describes the intellectual tool kit that leaders can develop

describes the trajectories through which leaders proceed, and the learnings required at each stage of the leaders evolution

presents a template for leadership development and succession.

Author : Dean Fink

ISBN: 9781412900546