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Genuine School Leadership

Experience, Reflection, and Beliefs

By: Ronald W. Rebore, Angela L. E. Walmsley

Transform your leadership practice by incorporating values, ideals, and ethics!

Genuine leadership is informed by experiences, personal values, and beliefs. This insightful guide explores the influence of morality on a leader's effectiveness and introduces a values-driven model for educational leadership. The authors examine current research on ethics and explain how moral beliefs develop within the context of educational leadership. Numerous case studies and exercises demonstrate how to:

Analyze leadership styles through reflective practice
Exercise authentic, moral leadership
Evaluate decisions based on ethical norms
Engage educators and community members in developing a collective morality
Nurture schools and districts as values-based learning communities

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Grade Level: PreK-12, Elementary, Secondary
ISBN: 9781412957373
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 160
Publication date: June 12, 2008

Price: $30.95

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"I especially like the sections that address the educational leader as one who has a calling to serve. This is the first and only text that has adequately addressed why educational leaders do what they do!"
—Jill Gildea, Superintendent
Harrison Elementary School District #36, IL

Transform your leadership practice by incorporating values, ideals, and ethics!

How can an educational leader practice moral leadership and successfully engage teachers, students, and the surrounding community? In Genuine School Leadership, the authors explore the influence of personal values, experience, and beliefs on a leader's effectiveness. The book analyzes the scientific and sociological foundations of morality, examines current research on ethics, and explains how values develop within the context of educational leadership. With numerous examples, case studies, and exercises, this resource demonstrates how leaders can:

Analyze their leadership style through reflective practice
Use personal values to support authentic, moral leadership
Evaluate decisions based on the ethical norms of the surrounding community
Engage educators, students, and community members in developing a collective morality
Nurture schools and districts as values-based learning communities

This insightful resource provides all educators and school leaders with the necessary tools to develop a positive ethical and spiritual basis for their leadership practice and school culture.

Key features

Reflective practice exercises are built into the book's format
Explores the ontological, neurological, and psychological foundations of leadership based on values, beliefs, and ethics
Provides an annotated bibliography and a significant number of references
Offers rich case studies and an abundance of examples

Author(s)

Ronald W. Rebore

Ronald W. Rebore is a professor at Saint Louis University located in Saint Louis, Missouri. His professional experience includes 22 years as an administrator: nine years as an assistant superintendent of a medium suburban school district, five years as the superintendent of schools in a small suburban school district, and eight years as the superintendent of schools for a large metropolitan school district employing approximately 4,000 staff members with an annual budget of approximately $170 million.

He has taught graduate-level courses in educational leadership for approximately 20 years, including ethics courses. Rebore has over 30 publications. Two of his books have been translated into Chinese and have been adopted for use in preparing educational administrators in China. Rebore has a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy, a master's of education degree in counseling and guidance, and a doctor of philosophy degree in educational leadership.

Angela L. E. Walmsley

Angela L. E. Walmsley is an assistant professor at Saint Louis University located in Saint Louis, Missouri. She has been working in the field of education for approximately 13 years. In that time, she has taught middle school and high school mathematics both in the United States and the United Kingdom; she has taught introductory education courses and graduate-level advanced education and mathematics education courses at two universities in the Saint Louis area; and she is currently teaching statistical and educational research courses at Saint Louis University.

Walmsley has a joint bachelor’s of science degree in mathematics and teaching from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; a master’s in education degree in mathematics education and a diploma in statistics from the University of Dublin: Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; and a doctor of philosophy degree in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on mathematics education and educational research from Saint Louis University. In addition, she holds teaching certificates for the states of Illinois and Missouri, as well as Northern Ireland in the UK.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. Understanding Spirituality for Educational Leadership

Vignette

The Purpose for Writing This Book

Chapter Objectives

The Milieu

Human Insights and Spirituality

The Perspective of Inquiry

The Question of God in Spirituality

Neuroscience Research and Spirituality

The Problem of Evil and Spirituality

Summary

Illustration: A Case of Personal Belief

Exercise: Too Religious or Not?

2. The Personal Context of Human Spirituality

Chapter Objectives

The Context

The Psychological Foundations of Spirituality

The Elements of a Personal Spirituality for Educational Leaders

Summary

Illustration: A Case of Personal Spirituality

Exercise: Self-Assessment of Psychological Dimensions

3. The Nature of Educational Leadership Spirituality

Chapter Objectives

The Educational Leadership Vocation

The Learning Community as a Conduit to Spiritual Leadership

Research as a Form of Spiritual Leadership

Summary

Illustration: A Case of Vocation and Dispositions

Exercise: Assessment, Communication, and Reflection

4. The Practice of Educational Leadership From a Spiritual Base

Chapter Objectives

The Rationale for Spiritual Leadership

The Spiritual Dimensions of Transcendental Leadership

Culture

Summary

Illustration: A Case of Leadership Spirituality

Exercise: Cultural Analysis Assessment

Appendix A: Research in Astronomy, Geology, and Physic and Human Spirituality

Appendix B: Psychological, Philosophical, and Religious Approaches to Good and Evil in the Human Condition

Endnotes

Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Index

Reviews

“Of the numerous education-related publications that I have read over the past 30 years, this is by far one of the most interesting and thought provoking. This book is a contribution to the field, especially for practicing, experienced school principals and superintendents who believe in faith regardless of one's particular denomination.”

Kenneth Arndt, Superintendent
Community Unit School District #300, IL

"I especially like the sections that address the educational leader as one who has a calling to serve. This is the first and only text that has adequately addressed why educational leaders do what they do!"

Jill Gildea, Superintendent
Harrison Elementary School District #36, IL

"A wonderful tool for educational leaders in strengthening the skills needed to survive. More important, the book helps to cultivate leaders' learning communities and develop an understanding at different levels of what it takes to elevate and create schools that are effective in meeting the needs of all who comprise that community."

Gerard Dery, Principal
Nessacus Regional Middle School, Dalton, MA

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