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Educational leadership continues to be the most powerful key to ensuring the successful future of all other professions, and thus, the quality of lives for people around the world. This book, your weekly reader, will allow you to have the conversations to help faculty and staff, to help kids. More importantly, these readings invite your thinking to go to different places in your mind as you search for meaning. They are designed to cause new thinking about some familiar issues, and of course, creativity in their solutions.
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Minds Unleashed
Foreword
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~It is so exciting to recommend this book, Minds Unleashed: How Principals Can Lead the Right-Brained Way.
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Preface
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For the purpose of this book and our conversations, we have determined that “leading the right-brained way” is our capacity to look at things from a unique and/or different perspective from what has been imprinted or expected of us. In other words, we can look at things upside down, or from right to left and back again, for the first time, each time.
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Acknowledgments
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As we think about how lucky we are to be able to share this book with you, we want to acknowledge those who have inspired our writing and who have given us a reason to think, as well as the time and space. Friends, colleagues, and our students at Indiana State University come to mind, as they are with us continually, discussing and debating the ideas we have and providing us the opportunity to...
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Introduction
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Years ago, we thought about becoming principals. And we did, for all the right reasons that existed at the time.
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Your Core; Your Ceiling
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A school building, over time, is no better than its principal. One could say the same for school districts by virtue of the talents of their superintendents, or even classrooms and the abilities of the teachers therein.
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    Unit I - Forgiving in Advance
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    ~We’re in a people profession. As such, we are exposed to the finer and not-so-finer examples of humanity. Whether people are inherently lazy and bad, or conversely, inquisitive and good, that’s not so much the question we hope to answer here. The point we wish to make is that we have come to realize is that people typically...
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    Chapter 1 - People Watching
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    ~Our profession allows for some very good people watching. Consider our weekly trips to the grocery store, where we may encounter:
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    Chapter 2 - No Good Deed Goes Unsuspected
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    ~How many of us do a good deed and hope that God, or let’s say good fortune, is not watching? How often do we give that guy begging on the sidewalk a few bucks without telling at least our spouse about it? How often do we do volunteer work in the community without sharing that we do it?
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    Chapter 3 - Wanting a Space
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    ~There sat Anytown’s dad with his children, face to face with a new adversary—a three-foot black Coluber constrictor, atop a front porch—subsequent to the scream of two girls who were probably in elementary school.
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    Chapter 4 - Roadchips
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    ~A car screeched to a stop, just inches behind another gassing-up at a small filling station in a remote rural community. The windshield was cracked, and out stepped a young man—unshaven, and in a hurry.
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    Unit II - A Different Dance
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    Robert Frost was a pretty talented guy. So are Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman, and Todd Whitaker. One thing they all have in common: the ability to see the need for doing things divergently, whether taking a road-less-traveled, or managing, teaching, or leading differently.
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    Chapter 5 - Making Rules to Break Them
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    ~Many of us have been party to situations when a particular rule was broken, and it was justified. As one example, we cannot fault people breaking the speed limit to get family members to the hospital in an emergency situation. Sometimes, even while caught, they end up with a police escort rather than a police citation.
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    Chapter 6 - The Launch
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    ~We had a great discussion as we cotaught a graduate class in the Principalship, in response to the question, “Give a brief summary of what you plan to do on your first day with students.”
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    Chapter 7 - A Word on College
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    ~Shouldn’t we ensure that our teachers are preparing each and every student for college? Can we say that we are doing our jobs if we’re not?
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    Unit III - “Capital”-izing
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    The most important job of a school leader is to ensure that teachers are continually improving their craft, delivering excellence in the classroom each day to students. Quality teaching, through excellent teachers, is the most important component to student success and school improvement, far surpassing any trends having to do with optimal models, prescribed programs, or trendy technology.
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    Chapter 8 - Hardball and Scouting
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    ~Anyone who has experienced an interview for a job knows the feeling of waiting for the question he or she hopes does not get asked. For each of us, that question may be different. For whatever reason there may exist a question (in your mind) that could seriously hurt your ability to land the job.
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    Chapter 9 - Getting Up; Then What?
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    ~If being an educational leader were easy, schools would be filled with different people.
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    Chapter 10 - Deflected Learning in Teaching
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    ~Imagine starting a weight lifting program and the trainer tells you, “Go ahead and get started; I’ll be in there later.”
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    Chapter 11 - The Next 10,000 Hours
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    In The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle tells us that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in something: that is, 10,000 hours of focused practice over the period of approximately ten years.
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    Unit IV - Getting There from Here
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    Prescribed school improvement seems all the rage across our nation. Templates even exist as to who must be involved, and what type of forms must be filed with those providing oversight. We’re not here to complain about that, as we have found that even with the minutia of edict, those who have had the proper focus on all of this rarely have a problem with compliance. Sometimes, admittedly,...
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    Chapter 12 - It’s Not School Improvement
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    ~Wander through a home improvement store and describe what you see. Is there any connection to what we should see in a school?
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    Chapter 13 - What Does Buy-In Look Like?
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    Here we are, trying to make sense out of commitment.
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    ~If you get a chance to read The Blueberry Story by Jamie Vollmer, read it. It provides a great discussion for those debating whether schools are actually businesses.
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    Chapter 15 - Too Much “Action”
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    ~An episode of the medical television show House found a person experiencing many physical problems difficult to diagnose. What ended up being the problem was that the patient had volunteered to be a participant in an experimental drug study. He got paid to do this; in fact, he was paid so well that he decided to do two others at...
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    Chapter 16 - What’s Not Important
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    ~The mood teachers are in should be irrelevant to the quality of teaching they provide. Mood is not important. We might do better in school improvement if we stopped worrying about that.
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    Unit V - A Left-Brained Off-Ramp
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    What would a bit of Yang be without some Yin? Please consider this chapter a soliloquy for those more inclined to putting one foot in front of the other, in the way that most of our profession would expect. Yet, it is not, in any sense, one of conformity.
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    Chapter 17 - Measuring Smarter, Not Harder
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    ~Some of our most capable educational innovators are worried about their jobs. Others are looking for other careers in which to exercise their ingenuity. Many of our most creative have found their efforts devalued by narrow and restrictive methods of educational assessment.
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    Chapter 18 - The Name Game
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    ~Every child who comes to school each year should be known by name—in the first week. Seems obvious, doesn’t it? Yet, if we were truly honest with ourselves, how many children are arriving at our buildings not really “known”?
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    Chapter 19 - Not All Good Teachers Are Effective
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    ~Each school is unique.
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    Unit VI - Locking and Loading
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    Leadership doesn’t always provide us the luxury of sitting around as resident philosophers, even though we’re asking you to take such time for a few minutes each week. It involves, rather, getting things done. Often, this involves either taking action to protect the integrity of the program that you are running, or cleaning up a mess that you have caused while running it. Quite often,...
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    Chapter 20 - An “I” for an “I”
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    ~Oftentimes as leaders we must do some unpleasant things . . . things that keep us up at night. We must GO MACHIAVELLIAN, as it were.
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    Chapter 21 - Two Wrongs Might Equal One Right
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    ~As principals, is it always best that we strive to do the right thing and support the right thing? Or, conversely, is it somehow better to develop our capacity for using “wrong” and getting good at it?
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    Chapter 22 - Knight Moves
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    ~The Knight is an invaluable chess piece.
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    Chapter 23 - Restraint and Combustion
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    ~Leaders are not hired to be armchair philosophers, although it behooves us to read philosophy. We’re hired, at times, to act. To advance our agenda. To get what we want. To make stuff happen. This involves a combination of inaction and action: restraint and combustion.
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    Unit VII - The Clue Phone
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    Our profession is replete with building leaders who neither understand what farmers are sharing about schools over morning coffee, nor hear what drunkards are regaling at the local watering hole . . . or even what parishioners are whispering after church. Whether this is a result of a historic insulation as monopolies, or something else completely borne of misplaced entitlement, we’re not...
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    Chapter 24 - Leadership in Dog Years
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    Could one’s tenure in school leadership be thought of in terms of dog years?
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    Chapter 25 - Between Anything Relevant
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    ~We are currently between times more relevant in education, in limbo, it seems. We’re in a liminal state.
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    Chapter 26 - A Reason to Perform Poorly
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    ~Each generation, it seems, claims the world is more cumbersome than that experienced by the previous generation. These claims are common, yet for the most part, clueless
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    Chapter 27 - The Jeopardic Method
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    ~In the game of Jeopardy, contestants are given answers and must provide responses to such in the form of questions. It sounds easy enough, but as the past few decades have shown us on network television, it can be a challenge, indeed. Education, likewise, has provided us answers for quite some time, to which we have...
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    Unit VIII - Undiscussibles
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    “How to be a leader” school allows for certain conversations to be had, and others not. Often, this is influenced and perpetuated by critics of our profession from without decrying that the societal shortcomings of “this” or “that” are the fault of the schools. We react by professing that we’re no longer the type of folks who created the misappropriated...
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    ~Whether it is a juicy, double-decker cheeseburger or a steaming carton of golden fries, the high-resolution picture on the board above the fast-food cashier looks mighty good. Yet what finds its way to our dinner plate is something else entirely.
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    Chapter 29 - Do Schools Need Leadership?
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    ~Moving from “building manager” to “instructional leader” is all the rage. According to a commonly embraced mantra: Today’s principals need to be prepared differently because the old, right way of doing things is now the new, wrong way.
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    Chapter 30 - A Principal’s Proper Parenting
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    ~In our schools, the principal should focus on the needs of the adults first.
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    Chapter 31 - Topics for Toasties
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    ~The organization Toastmasters International (TI) is a worldwide nonprofit organization that helps members develop their speaking and communication skills, and in doing so, helps with their leadership. It is a great organization that has been around since the 1930s.
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    Unit IX - X-Ray Vision
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    While many would say that our profession needs a blameless autopsy in order to diagnose its current ills and seek improvement, we might say, at most, it could use some exploratory surgery. Quite simply, we don’t believe the patient is dead. Not yet, anyway.
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    ~You will always get to where you are going. It will be a hybrid of what you hoped for and what was possible.
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    Chapter 33 - Opportunity/Cost
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    ~Life is an internship.
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    Chapter 34 - Other School Seasons
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    ~Many times we seek out metaphors to describe the work educators do. Sometimes education is called a war or a business.
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    Chapter 35 - Intentional Impracticality
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    ~Practitioners want formulas for solving problems. “Just give me the meat and potatoes,” they say, oftentimes averse to deeper discussions of theory, let alone the abstract thinking that forms part of these discussions.
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    Chapter 36 - Scrambles in Schools
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    ~In golf, “a scramble” is a type of competition where four people are on a team, each hitting his or her golf ball separately, yet with all four going to the best ball shot in order to take the next hit.
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    Unit X - Another Off-ramp
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    ~This unit provides a final exit ramp before veering a bit farther to the right.
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    Chapter 37 - Upon the Labyrinth
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    ~Labyrinth was a game that we played as youngsters, where one could tilt a wooden maze on two axes, with an attempt to keep a marble from falling through holes while guiding it toward a desired destination. It was a rather methodical game, with a clear-cut destination and strategy.
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    ~Principals can do their jobs only if those above them are healthy in their relationships with one another. Otherwise, crap rolls downhill, and the building leader will end up taking the brunt. Toward this end, we would like to propose what healthy central office and board governance looks like, so that, if you are a principal, you can...
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    This book is providing a permission slip for school leaders at all levels to think. After all, thinking is quite the precious commodity in the harried business of our lives, isn’t it? And to be quite frank, it’s necessary, as the daily business of running schools is not bringing with it more soft balls and second chances. Convoluted circumstances require complicated cerebral...
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    Chapter 39 - An Exercise Regimen
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    ~If you have ever tried to get into shape through the use of physical activity, running, weight lifting, or biking, you will understand the discomfort associated with progress. If you are unable to sense any muscle pains after a workout, then you may not have pushed it enough to make a difference.
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    Chapter 40 - Each Day, an Interview?
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    ~Each day is an interview for the next job.
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    Chapter 41 - Rejecting Art in Leadership
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    ~Is your leadership more an art or science? We would contend that the best answer is “neither, really.”
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    Chapter 42 - In Leadership’s Wake
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    ~Two planes damaged, one down in flames. All eleven on board surviving, including two pilots and nine skydivers, who, through training, courage, split-second decision making, and a bit of blue-sky fortune, made the best possible outcome out of a mid-air collision.
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    Chapter 43 - Doing Less, Intentionally
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    ~Is less, more? Can subtraction of leadership’s dominance help with addition, or even multiplication of leadership effort, quality teaching, and student learning?
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    Chapter 44 - The Skyhook
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    ~You may remember it from the movies or from having watched it on television:
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    Chapter 45 - The Moment Learning Happens
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    ~There is a moment when we learn something.
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    Unit XII - Building a Cult
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    Isn’t sound leadership as much a matter of manipulating, as it is a matter of serving? Isn’t it as much a matter of choreography and architecture, as it is a matter of cocreating and collaborating? We admit here that, as authors, we’re as much different on these subjects as we are together on them, and for those of you who know us, the “how” in all of...
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    Chapter 46 - Teachers Behaving Badly
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    ~As we think about improving schools, most would agree that the best way to do it is to improve our teachers.
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    Chapter 47 - Your School’s Culture Muscle
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    ~What we are talking about is strength. Organizational cultures in schools are either strong or weak, or somewhere in between. Do not confuse the concept of being strong as being good. Strong simply means that many people are on the same page. A weak culture is one where most people are not in agreement on what is most important.
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    Chapter 48 - Power and Followership
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    ~When we talk about power in leadership courses, “types” of power will enter the conversation. When better discussed, it will be talked about in terms of its followers.
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    Chapter 49 - Your Importance; Your Ceiling
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    ~As a principal, whatever is most important to you will eventually become what is most important to your faculty and staff—to your school. After four or five years, the culture of your school will become a reflection of your personality, including all the behaviors, preferences, and beliefs that are yours.
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    Chapter 50 - Learning from Toxic Teachers
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    ~We call negative teachers toxic.
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    Chapter 51 - The Best Schools Have . . .
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    ~The discussion over what the best schools have—what they look like or what people do therein—is an ongoing debate.
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    Chapter 52 - Your Cultural Investment
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    What if we were to think of a school’s culture as an investment portfolio? Here are four different portfolios, each one with investments grounded in a different place:
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    Love and hate are often thought to be closer to each other than they each are to apathy; one might say the same thing about genius and insanity, life and death. Such is the case for schools.
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    How to Kill a School
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    Since many contend that quality education is the solution to the world’s problems, is poor education the reason for many of the problems we have?
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    Unit XIV - The Last Word
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    ~As our authors have spent this entire book writing together, this one-chapter unit provides a better introduction to each of them individually.
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    In Conflict over Collaboration?
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    At times, it is interesting to wander the hallways of any given graduate school of education, hearing debates among faculty and their students. Here’s one that we had, and continue to have, regarding the benefits, or not, of collaboration.
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    To Conclude, or . . . ?
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    Minds Unleashed
    About the Authors
    Minds Unleashed
    ~~Dr. Ryan Donlan, an Assistant Professor at Indiana State University’s Department of Educational Leadership in the Bayh College of Education, served for many years as a...
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