Supporting leaders for school improvement through self-care and well-being

"School leadership instability is particularly problematic for scholars and practitioners concerned with PK-12 school improvement, as second only to teachers, campus leadership has been identified as a primary factor in students' academic success (Young et al., 2007). Yet, while principals...

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Other Authors Carpenter, Bradley W. (Editor), Mahfouz, Julia (Editor), Robinson, Kerry (Educator) (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP | Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2023.
SeriesLeadership for school improvement
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601219
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-279-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 396 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Overview and Introduction to the project / Bradley W. Carpenter, Julia Mahfouz, and Kerry Robinson
  • Section I: Promises and problems, overview of the field
  • Chapter 1. Exploring the landscape of educational leader wellness / Kathleen B. King, April Harris, and Angel Vales
  • Chapter 2. School leadership in the United States: An in-depth analysis of the increasing principal turnover crisis in america / Denver J. Fowler and Sarah M. Jouganatos
  • Chapter 3. Considering how professional norms and practices influence leaders' well-being / Kara Lasater, John C. Pijanowski, and Joshua Ray
  • Chapter 4. Building a school leader's personal well-being plan / Vicki Bautista and Gretchen Oltman
  • Chapter 5. Flourishing as school leaders: Perspectives of Canada's outstanding principals / Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Terry Kharyati, and Nadia Arghash
  • Chapter 6. The future of higher education is human: A call for contemplative leadership preparation / Maryann Krikorian
  • Chapter 7. Leading from the center: Leadership well-being and team effectiveness in education agencies / Irma Eloff and Ruth Molly McGee Hewitt
  • Section II: Empirical reasoning
  • Chapter 8. Promoting well-being in school principals and vice principals requires structural change, not just self-care / Cameron Hauseman, Katrina Pollock, and Fei Wang
  • Chapter 9. Student adversity and leader stress: A critical race contextualization and analysis of new york state social emotional learning policy / Melinda Lemke and Anthony L. White IIs
  • Section III: Models for well-being
  • Chapter 10. Thrive: A guiding model for facilitating school leader well-being / Connor M. Moriarty, Kimberly Joy Rushing, and Lisa A. W. Kensler
  • Chapter 11. School administrators' well-being and mindfulness as critical components of leadership and building healthy teams / Nancy Norman, Adrienne Castellon, and David D. Stinson
  • Chapter 12. Positive leadership for flourishing learning communities / Sabre Cherkowski, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, and Keith Walker
  • Chapter 13. Educational leadership as emotional labor: A framework for the values-driven emotion work of school leaders / Kristina N. LaVenia, Christy Galletta Horner, and Judy Jackson May
  • Chapter 14. An urban district's approach to scaling up social-emotional learning competencies through a leadership lens / Delia Estrada, Marco A. Nava, and Susan Ward-Roncalli
  • Chapter 15. An urban district's approach to scaling up social-emotional learning competencies through a leadership lens / Jonathan Eckert
  • Section IV: Well-being practices and frameworks for practitioners to use
  • Chapter 16. Applying brain research and positive psychology to promote the well-being of principals / Kent Divoll and Angelica Ribeiro
  • Chapter 17. Cultivating awareness and resilience in education: Caring for yourself so you have the resources to care for others / Sebrina Doyle
  • Chapter 18. Respecting communication skills: The missing link for the well-being of educators and their schools / Deborah L. Schussler and Jennifer L. Frank
  • Chapter 19. Caring for the caretaker: Using mentoring as support for school principals in self-care and mindfulness / Sonya Hayes and Jerry Burkett
  • Chapter 20. Soul of leadership: Sustaining principals through courage, presence, and integrity / Rick Rogers and Mary Watkins. About the Authors.