Differentiated School Leadership : Effective Collaboration, Communication, and Change Through Personality Type

by Jane A. G. Kise

• ISBN13: 9781412917735
• ISBN10: 1412917735
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-20
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Understand your own strengths and your staff's strengths. Leaders are most effective when they understand their own styles, work from their strengths, and compensate for their blind spots. Personality type is the way people gain energy, absorb information, and make decisions. It explains how people lead, communicate, and learn. It's possible to learn how to utilize those areas that are not our natural strengths. By understanding personality types and differentiation, school leadership teams can more effectively distribute leadership responsibilities. Principals, administrators, and teacher leaders can also help others utilize their strengths and develop their other capacities.An ideal resource for principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, assistant superintendents, superintendents, and those leading or serving on school improvement teams or other teams.

Table of Contents

A Note From the Authors Table of Professional Development Activities

Introduction

About the Authors

What Type of Leader Are You?

Strengths-Based Leadership Priorities: You Can't Do It All

Succeeding at School Change

Your Leadership Team: Distributing Roles Effectively

Communicating so That What You Say Is What They Hear

Making Professional Learning Communities Worth the Effort

Observing All Types of Teachers

Tools for Schoolwide Discipline

Working With All Types of Parents

Strategies for Coping With the Stress of School Leadership

Descriptions of Leadership Styles for the 16 Types

Problem-Solving or "Z" Model

Making Type a Schoolwide Language

Further Reading on Personality Type

References

Index

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