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Indelible Leadership
By: Michael Fullan
Use these actionable examples of six key leadership elements to promote deep and lasting systemic change. Covers mastering the change process, co-leading and co-learning, mentoring and more!
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781506323626
- Published By: Corwin
- Series: Corwin Impact Leadership Series
- Year: 2016
- Page Count: 104
- Publication date: June 20, 2016
Price: $23.95
For Instructors
Description
Make a deep impact today that leaves a growing legacy for tomorrow.
Learn to lead well and leave a lasting impact with this compact, richly innovative book from the Corwin Impact Leadership series. Discover six specific leadership attributes to stimulate deep learning— and deep leadership— that transforms schools for the future.
Concrete examples and critical, yet implementable action steps help you:
- Commit to deep, meaningful work
- Master the content and process of change
- Co-learn and co-lead simultaneously
- Collaboratively develop individuals and groups
- Link your goals to the larger school system
- Produce new, capable leaders
Uncover new ways of thinking and acting, for you and for those you lead, with this powerful leadership guide!
Other books by Corwin:
- Quaglia: Principal Voice
- Zhao: Teaching for Greatness
- Glaze: Avis Glaze’s Impact Leadership
"Few today have broader and deeper insights than Michael Fullan in helping to develop leadership amidst the cross currents of today’s school environments. Two of Fullan’s timely insights in Indelible Leadership—Students themselves are the hidden agents for deep change, and the real leadership capabilities needed today can be learned."
Peter Senge
MIT and Academy for Systemic Change
"This book provides a wonderfully clear and concise guide for education leaders who want to make a real difference in the midst of challenging times. Fullan is a master!"
Tony Wagner, Author
The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators
Author(s)
Michael Fullan
Michael Fullan, (OC) is the former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto. He is co-leader of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global initiative (www.npdl.global). Recognized as a worldwide authority on educational reform, he advises policymakers, local leaders, and school communities in helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children’s learning. He served as Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Special Policy Adviser in Ontario from 2003-2013. Fullan received the Order of Canada (OC) in December 2012. He holds five honorary doctorates from universities around the world.
Fullan’s latest books are: Coherence: Putting the right drivers in action (with Quinn); Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World (with Quinn, McEachen); Dive into Deep Learning: Tools for Engagement (Quinn, McEachen, Fullan, Gardner, & Drummy), Surreal Change (autobiography), Core Governance (with Davis Campbell), Nuance: Why Some Leaders Succeed and others Fail, The devil is in the details: System solutions for equity, excellence , and well-being (with Gallagher), Spirit work and the science of collaboration (with Mark Edwards).
Fullan and his team currently work on ‘system transformation’ in education in several countries globally. For more information on books, articles, videos, podcasts please go to www.michaefullan.ca.
Table of Contents
Preface
Author’s Note: Deep Leadership: Managing Six Big Tensions
1. Moral Imperative and Uplifting Leadership
2. Master Content and Process
3. Lead and Learn in Equal Measure
4. See Students as Change Agents and Protégés
5. Feed and Be Fed by the System
6. Be Essential and Dispensable
Reviews
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"Few today have broader and deeper insights than Michael Fullan in helping to develop leadership amidst the cross currents of today’s school environments. Students themselves are the hidden agents for deep change, and the real leadership capabilities needed today can be learned are just two of Fullan’s timely insights in Indelible Leadership."Peter Senge
MIT and Academy for Systemic Change
"This book provides a wonderfully clear and concise guide for education leaders who want to make a real difference in the midst of challenging times. Fullan is a master!"Tony Wagner, Author
The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators
“Indelible Leadership challenges and guides leaders to help students and teachers learn deeply. Fullan has shown why new leadership is crucial for our times, and more significantly reveals what it looks like in practice. Read it and take your leadership to a deeper level!”Laura Schwalm, Senior Partner
California Education Partners
“The reach of Michael Fullan’s ideas has no limits. He sets out how leaders can forge a path of lasting improvement. As usual he identifies a critical issue that we should have known—every leader leaves at some point and if too much depends on him the chances for continuity are seriously compromised. Learn how to make a deep impact today in a way that leaves a growing legacy for tomorrow.”Avis Glaze
Educ-Quest International
Mike East, General Manager, K-12 Education"Indelible Leadership is quite simply fantastic! Fullan’s book offers an exceptional framework for action in our complex times. It provides tools, lots of gems and surprising insights, and thought provoking challenges. I found myself immediately putting these ideas into practice. As a long time consultant on transformational leadership Fullan has already ‘left this reader learning’."
IBM Canada Ltd.