The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School - Couverture souple

Brown, Valerie L. (Lillian)

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 148330308X ISBN 13 : 9781483303086

Editeur : Corwin, 2014

Synopsis

Full of case studies, tips and resources, this book offers overburdened school leaders the guidance they need to create quiet and calm in their work lives so as to positively affect their schools, staff and students.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Valerie Brown is a leadership coach, leadership educator, retreat leader and Principal of Lead Smart Coaching, LLC, specializing in leadership coaching of school leaders. She trained at the Center for Transformational Leadership, at Georgetown University, the Center for Courage & Renewal and Parker J. Palmer, and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care & Society. Her work and writing point toward powerful transformation through mindful awareness, and her passion is for creating greater trust, authenticity and integrity among people.

A former lawyer-lobbyist for educational institutions and legal organizations, she has worked largely with leaders in many fields.

She is the author of The Road that Teaches: Lessons in Transformation through Travel (QuakerBridge Media, 2012), and two pamphlets, published by Pendle Hill a Quaker Retreat Center, where she teaches mindfulness, including Living from the Center: Mindfulness Meditation and Centering for Friends (2010) and The Mindful Quaker (2007). Her latest pamphlet is Heartfulness: Bringing Heart, Mind & Spirit on Retreat & Beyond (Pendle Hill, February 2013). She is the author of an essay on relationships in Together We Are One by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press 2010).

She was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2003 and is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher (1999). She is a member of Solebury Monthly Meeting (Quakers). Valerie is a founding member of Old Path Sangha, one of the oldest Buddhist communities in Bucks county, PA, where she lives.

Her website is www.leadsmartcoaching.com

Kirsten Olson is an organizational coach, consultant and writer. A founding member of the Institute for Democratic Education in America http: //www.democraticeducation.org/, an emerging national not-for-profit linking youth and progressive educational activists for educational transformation, she has been an organizational and strategic consultant to the largest school districts in the country, the Kennedy School at Harvard University, and the Coalition for Essential School. The author of Wounded By School Recapturing The Joy In Learning and Standing Up To Old School Culture, one of the top-selling books at Teachers College Press in 2009, and Schools as Colonizers (Verlag 2008), she is an active blogger and popular speaker at transformation-minded educational conferences and events, and also writes for Education Week, Teacher Magazine and Educational Leadership. Kirsten was formerly a visiting professor at Wheaton College, in Norton, MA and at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An experiential retreat leader with two-year facilitator training with Parker Palmer at the Center for Courage and Renewal, she leads professional development retreats on mindfulness for school leaders, self-compassion, and "permissioning" in leadership and social action. Kirsten is a recent graduate of the Center for Transformational Leadership at Georgetown University, and will be joining the adjunct faculty there in Spring 2013. She holds a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an undergraduate degree from Vassar College.

Her website is: http: //www.kirstenolson.org

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corwin
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 148330308X
• ISBN 13: 9781483303086
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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