TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Irving C. AU - Blake,Vera TI - Fearless conversations school leaders have to have SN - 9781506367545 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - LB2805 .J655 2018 U1 - 371.2 J71 2018 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Thousand Oaks, California, USA PB - Corwin, a SAGE Company KW - Educational leadership KW - United States KW - School administrators KW - Professional relationships KW - Communication in education KW - School management and organization N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Bill Daggett -- Chapter 1: Creating and sustaining a viable work environment -- Adult learning -- Principals' roles -- Supporting opportunities to learn at work -- Lessons learned-LRD -- Stretch to grow -- Leading change -- The bottom line -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 2: Crafting and supporting strong missions and visions -- Rationale for visions and missions -- Visions and missions defined -- Creating visions and missions -- Remain focused on the purpose -- Using data to manage -- Unify stakeholders -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 3: Improving through effective feedback -- Feedback is critical -- Anchoring improvements in data -- Goal setting to focus improvements -- Providing targeted feedback -- Coaching for growth -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 4: Increasing parent and community stakeholder partnerships -- Effective communications and community -- Outreach -- Addressing resistance -- Increasing stakeholder involvement -- Ideas to help generate involvement -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 5: Managing and sustaining an organized, productive, ever-changing school culture -- Defining and articulating school culture -- Changing the culture -- Sustaining the culture -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 6: Boosting collegial climates by providing embedded professional development -- Sharing a singular focus -- Performance standards and training -- Flexibility as a strength -- Recognition and rewards -- The value of coaching -- Adult learners -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 7: Planning for success -- Planning with data teams -- Planning for student engagement -- Planning for parental participation -- Planning for communication -- Planning tools -- Planning goals and objectives -- Principal's daily planning guide -- Summary -- Reflections -- Conclusion; CoEDG; Master of Arts in Education major in Administration and Supervision N2 - Step out of your comfort zone and really help kids. To meet the needs of today's learners, the adults who work with them need the support and empowerment of fearless leadership. Anchored in research, Fearless Conversations School Leaders Have to Have is a guide to recognizing and using strategies that encourages staff to work at their full potential, build trust, and strengthen collegiality. Strong, courageous, focused, collaborative leadership is a win-win approach for all stakeholders. Readers will find: interviews to illustrate effective practice ; strategies to help leaders move from traditional methodologies toward stronger transformational leadership ; vignettes and examples to ignite additional thinking to facilitate achivement for all students. Written for aspiring, new, and experience school leaders, this is a must-read for anyone who wants practical strategies that they can use immediately to build a culture of learning and improve academic achievement for all students. -- from back cover.; This book will provide doable, practical ideas and strategies that can be put to use right away in a user friendly format to address individual and collective needs of district leaders, school leaders, both students and adults, and community leaders. ER -