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Leadership for Resilient Schools and Communities

Second Edition
By: Mike M. Milstein, Doris Annie Henry

Foreword by Richard A. Schmuck

Develop an environment that fosters well-being and promotes success for the entire school community!

This highly interactive book offers proven strategies for developing the resiliency necessary for students, schools, and communities to thrive. Expanding on the first edition, Spreading Resiliency, this revision emphasizes the role of educational leaders and incorporates feedback from educators who have used the book to improve their schools. The updated exercises, case studies, and reproducibles will help readers:

  • Diagnose current problems and implement strategies for change
  • Assess their own readiness to facilitate resiliency initiatives
  • Build confidence and coping capabilities in students
  • Partner effectively with surrounding communities

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412955942
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2007
  • Page Count: 200
  • Publication date: December 11, 2007
Price: $40.95
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"The book provides a wide selection of practical and user-friendly tools and strategies for understanding the meaning and importance of resiliency. A must for anyone concerned about the well-being of their schools and communities."
—Doug Milne, Campus Manager
University of Canterbury, Nelson Campus, New Zealand

"Milstein and Henry establish an excellent set of guiding principles. Every educational administrator needs to read and reflect upon this important work."
—John M. Daggett, Former Superintendent
Ashland Public Schools, OR

Develop an environment that fosters well-being and promotes success for the entire school community!

As a practical guide for creating healthier school environments, this interactive workbook offers proven strategies for developing resiliency—the emotional strength and constructive attitude necessary for students, schools, and communities to thrive.

Mike M. Milstein and Doris Annie Henry expand on the groundbreaking concepts presented in their first edition, Spreading Resiliency, to underscore the critical role of educational leaders and incorporate feedback from educators who have used the book to improve their schools. The updated exercises, case studies, and reproducibles are presented in a workbook style to help administrators:

  • Diagnose current problems and implement strategies for change
  • Assess their own readiness to facilitate resiliency initiatives
  • Increase educator enthusiasm and strengthen professional development
  • Build confidence and coping capabilities in students
  • Partner effectively with surrounding communities

This invaluable resource supplies all the tools that school leaders, teacher leaders, and district administrators need to foster resiliency and implement effective, positive improvement initiatives.


Key features

  • User friendly and full of strategies
  • Tools and resources to help school leaders implement strategies
  • New coverage of leadership resiliency
  • Updates throughout
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Mike M. Milstein

Mike M. Milstein is a partner in The Resiliency Group, Ltd., and Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of New Mexico. His professional career also includes being Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Buffalo and a classroom teacher. His teaching, research, and writing interests are in the areas of resiliency and organiza­tional change and development. He has been actively engaged in school and community resiliency development efforts in such places as Nelson, New Zealand, Ashland, Oregon; Battle Creek, Michigan; and Shelby County, Tennessee. The resil­iency initiatives he has facilitated include classroom instruction and cur­riculum improvement efforts, school wide activities that enhance the resil­iency of educators, and school-community partnerships that support resiliency development for both children and adults. He has written 11 books, including coauthoring Resiliency in Schools (2002; 1996).
Doris Annie Henry photo

Doris Annie Henry

Doris “Annie” Henry is a partner in The Resiliency Group, Ltd., and retired Pro­fessor of Educational Leadership. Her research and writing interests focus on resiliency, restructuring, change, organization development, and school improvement. Her work with developing resiliency efforts includes Nelson, New Zealand, Ashland, Oregon; Tennessee State Department of Education; and Memphis, Tennessee. She has facili­tated resiliency at the classroom, school-wide, and community-school part­nership levels. Currently she is the National President of the New Zealand Educational Administration and Leadership Society (NZEALS), and serves on 10 international, national and local boards. Her professional career includes being Professor of Educa­tional Leadership at New Mexico Highlands University, the University of Memphis, and at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; an elementary school principal for nearly a decade in Arizona and Oklahoma, and a classroom teacher. She has published and presented widely in her areas of interest, most notably as coauthor of the national study, Becoming a Superintendent: Challenges of School District Leadership (1997).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Dedication

List of Tables and Figures

List of Handouts

Foreword by Richard A. Schmuck

Foreword to the First Edition by Paul D. Houston

Preface

Organization of the Book

About the Authors

Part I. Basic Concepts


1. Resiliency: Promoting Everyone’s Potential to Succeed

Why the Urgency?

An Introduction to Resiliency

The Problem With Problem Solvers

2. Building Resilient Communities

Why Community Development and Resiliency

Traditional Ways of Thinking About Community

Three Realities of Community: Rural, Urban, and Suburban

Visualizing the Resilient Community

Leadership Activities for Building a Resilient Community: Where Do We Start?

Part II. Resiliency for Everyone


3. Student Resiliency: Building a Base for Positive Living

What Are the Problems That Youth Face?

Changing Our Mind Maps: From Deficits to Potentials

Student Resiliency: The Community and School’s Responsibilities

Leadership Strategies That Promote Student Resiliency

Bringing It All Together as an Overall Resiliency-Building Approach

4. Educator Resiliency: Nurturing the Nurturers

Resiliency Pathways and Educators’ Performance Over Their Career Span

The Ability of Educators to Perform Well Over Time: Coping With Plateauing

The Impact of the School Environment on Educator Resiliency

Strategies to Overcome School-Based Barriers to Educator Resiliency

5. School Resiliency: Creating Supportive Environments for Students, Educators, and Communities

Does Your School Support Resiliency?

Improving School Resiliency Means Changing Schools

Backwards Planning

School Resiliency-Building Strategies

6. Community Resiliency: Developing Partnerships

Building Relationships Between Schools and Their Communities

Communities With Characteristics of Resiliency

Community Support Is Needed for School Resiliency

School Support Is Needed for Community Resiliency

From Reactive to Proactive Community Relationships

Strategies for Improving Community Resiliency

Part III. Making It Happen for Schools & Communities


7. Leading Resiliency Development Initiatives: Strategies for Managing and Assessing Change

Bringing It All Together and Leading Resiliency Development Initiatives

The Four Stages of Change

Group Development

Leadership Needs

Facilitation Skills

Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation

8. School and Community Resiliency Initiatives

A Reality Perspective

Communities on the Forefront of Improvement

In Closing

Resource A: Handouts

References

Index

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