A practical guide for school leaders and managers seeking concrete strategies for professional improvement
Leading a learning community is a challenging endeavor that rewards those who build social-emotional and adaptive leadership competencies. In The Noble School Leader, veteran school leader and leadership coach Matthew Taylor delivers an inspiring and enlightening exploration of the mindsets that support leaders to thrive, as well as those that just get in the way. It is a field guide to creating learning conditions that make transformative growth happen in schools.
In this book, readers will:
* Uncover the most common internal obstacles that hold all school leaders back, from teacher leaders to superintendents
* Apply the core domains of emotional intelligence and create personal growth plans using the invaluable 5 Square tool
* Surface core values and drivers that shift mindsets and behaviors
* Set goals and plans for challenging leadership moments
Written for school leaders and managers seeking concrete techniques for building social-emotional and adaptive leadership competencies, The Noble School Leader is also an indispensable resource for any K-12 teacher, administrator, or professor with an interest in education and emotional intelligence.
Praise for The Noble School Leader
"There's no one better able than Matthew Taylor to show how the emotional intelligence framework can be applied to school leaders. The Noble School Leader democratizes leadership excellence."
-DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
"Matt has created a new approach that takes the concepts of emotional intelligence and makes them specific to the lived realities of school leaders. You will see yourself reflected in this book, and you will walk away with deepened insight and actionable strategies for shifting the deep mindsets that can hold us back."
-SARA KEENAN, founder and managing director of the Charter Network Accelerator
A field guide to creating learning conditions that make transformative leadership education possible, The Noble School Leader delivers an inspiring and eye-opening exploration of the mindsets that facilitate continued self-awareness and development in a classroom setting. It also describes counter-productive mentalities that simply get in the way and that should be avoided at all costs.
In this book, you'll discover the most common internal obstacles that prevent school leaders-from teacher leaders to superintendents-from achieving their goals. You'll also find out how to surface core values and drivers that shift mindsets and behaviors, as well as how to understand the core domains of emotional intelligence and how to use the author's proprietary 5-Square Tool to create personal growth plans.
Full of concrete advice you can use to create goals and plans to carry you through challenging leadership moments, The Noble School Leader is an indispensable resource for school leaders and managers who seek to build personal adaptive leadership competencies. It's also required reading for any K-12 teacher or administer interested in maximizing the social-emotional conditions for learning.
