Leading Through Quality Questioning : Creating Capacity, Commitment, and Community

by Jackie Acree Walsh

• ISBN13: 9781412960618
• ISBN10: 1412960614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-20
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This handbook for school leaders (principals, teacher leaders, other school and district leaders) applies the principles of Quality Questioning (Walsh &BAD:amp; Sattes, 2005) to four critical leadership functions: maximizing, mobilizing, mediating, and monitoring. Walsh and Sattes show how questions, not answers, are the fuel that power school improvement and concurrently drive the learning community. The book seeks to make the practice of quality questioning concrete to busy leaders by offering exemplar questions and processes that can be adapted to local settings.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Preface: What Have We Learned From Our Work? Quality Questioning Is Not Just for the Classroom Anymore	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
About the Authors	p. xvii
Quality Questioning: Why Is This an Important Practice for Leaders of Learning Communities?	p. 1
Questioning as a Process: What Are the Essential Elements?	p. 11
Maximizing: How Can Leaders Increase Individual and Collective Capacity?	p. 35
Mobilizing: How Do Leaders Build Constituent Commitment to Act?	p. 43
Mediating: How Does Quality Questioning Help Create Common Ground?	p. 53
Monitoring: How Do Leaders Use Quality Questioning to Facilitate Reflection on Progress Toward Identified Goals?	p. 63
Promoting Adult Learning and Growth in Schools: How Can Leaders Nurture Communities of Quality Questioners?	p. 73
Examples of Closed and Open-Ended Questions	p. 81
Structured Group Processes That Engage Members of the School Community in Thinking and Dialogue	p. 87
The Quality Questioning Quotient (QQQ): A Self-Assessment	p. 111
References	p. 115
Index	p. 119
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