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Virtuous Educational Leadership: Doing the Right Work the Right Way
Excellent leadership matters
Without excellent leadership, school improvement is impossible, or at least impossible to sustain. But what are the characteristics of an excellent leader? Is general leadership experience and knowledge enough? And how do you practically grow and develop leadership in yourself and others so you can all have a bigger impact on student outcomes?
This integrated, holistic resource explores the virtues that are integral to achieving excellence in educational leadership, while offering practical guidance on how to do the right work in the right way—no matter what challenges you face or student inequities you’re trying to overcome. Features
Practical, research-based applications of virtue theory Examples of school leaders’ thinking and actions In-depth yet accessible theoretical analysis Detailed analysis showing theoretical concepts in practice Summaries and reflection questions The success of your students and teachers is directly linked to your influence, your knowledge and ideas, your personal character, and your ability to focus on the proper purposes of education.
Without excellent leadership, school improvement is impossible, or at least impossible to sustain. But what are the characteristics of an excellent leader? Is general leadership experience and knowledge enough? And how do you practically grow and develop leadership in yourself and others so you can all have a bigger impact on student outcomes?
This integrated, holistic resource explores the virtues that are integral to achieving excellence in educational leadership, while offering practical guidance on how to do the right work in the right way—no matter what challenges you face or student inequities you’re trying to overcome. Features
Practical, research-based applications of virtue theory Examples of school leaders’ thinking and actions In-depth yet accessible theoretical analysis Detailed analysis showing theoretical concepts in practice Summaries and reflection questions The success of your students and teachers is directly linked to your influence, your knowledge and ideas, your personal character, and your ability to focus on the proper purposes of education.
286 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2022
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January 15, 2024
This book was an accessible deep dive into the virtues that drive empathetic and inquisitive leadership. It contained real world examples and chapters that were a good length to get through in a single sitting.
The layout of the book is what reduced my rating. Often, tables and inlays are placed in awkward positions, cutting paragraphs in half. This layout divided my attention at times and made the experience of reading less streamlined. I found myself having to go back and reread sections as the layout had disrupted my train of thought. If these inclusions were placed at the end of the paragraph that they illustrated it would be a much more pleasant reading experience.
The layout of the book is what reduced my rating. Often, tables and inlays are placed in awkward positions, cutting paragraphs in half. This layout divided my attention at times and made the experience of reading less streamlined. I found myself having to go back and reread sections as the layout had disrupted my train of thought. If these inclusions were placed at the end of the paragraph that they illustrated it would be a much more pleasant reading experience.
January 23, 2023
A must read for educational leaders everywhere - Robinson outlines a holistic and integrated approach to how educational leaders develop the quality of student learning in schools based on the establishment of clear purposes and the enactment of these purposes in virtuous ways
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