The Noble School Leader: The Five-Square Approach to Leading Schools with Emotional Intelligence

by Matthew Taylor

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

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.

Genres: Education

253 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 12, 2022

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Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great template for those looking to grow themselves as leaders.
It is well guided and I would recommend doing this with someone who already has, or even together with someone still working through their own version.
It's a lot of self-work, so be ready to learn things you may not have known you needed. It's very actionable so I'm looking forward to seeing my growth and development over the next few years while utilizing this reflective process.

It very much reminds me of Brene Brown's SFD (shitty first draft) and how to change that. This is what stories do we tell ourselves, how do they serve us (or not!) and how can we change them to better serve us, our team mates, and the communities we serve.

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this book, Matt Taylor lays out his approach to social-emotional school leadership centered on what he has coined the 5 square. Building off of Daniel Goleman’s work on emotional intelligence, Taylor has developed a thoughtful process for developing self awareness, self management, social awareness, and relationship management skills to be more effective school leaders. The book functions more as a workbook rather than just a strait forward narrative. Regardless it is a welcome tool for improving the emotional learning of our school leaders and by proxy the learning of the staff and students in our schools.