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The Meeting Culture: Including and Involving

This is part four of a blog series focusing on the skills required for headship in today's changing world. Here are links to part one: The Competent Leader, part two: The Good Communicator, and part three: Being the Decider.

Beyond the daily realities of working with lots of kinds of people that have individual strengths, weaknesses, and agendas, a leader may find that the hardest thing in the daily work is getting meetings together and running them productively. In schools, where inclusion and involvement are deeply valued, this challenge can be particularly frustrating—and meetings are often the most relied upon solution.

GLP Summer Reading List (Part Two)

A Vision for the Future: Why and How

 

Here is a link to part one of our summer reading list!

August is here and many of us are finally taking some serious time away to relax and reflect before “back to school” is our reality. It’s a great time to read two books we believe are “musts” for imagining what can be in the new year. Full disclosure: The authors of both books are valued colleagues and friends. Nevertheless, we believe they’ve succeeded in clearly articulating answers to the most essential questions of WHY and HOW for the kinds of changes we need to make if we want to develop healthy and well-prepared students for the 21st century.

Recommended Read: Just Mercy

For Students and Educators:

 

Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Many of the schools we work with are actively examining how to best address challenging topics around diversity, inclusion, and identity—in their communities and in our society. Recently, questions related to racial inequity and justice have arisen in the national conversation. As educators facilitate these discussions within their schools, they may want to consider Stevenson’s excellent book, Just Mercy. This is a highly readable and accessible text, offering both historic perspective and the basis for meaningful, values-based discussion. We recommend adding it your reading list. 

Being the Decider

This is part three of a blog series focusing on the skills required for headship in today's changing world. Here are links to part one: The Competent Leader and part two: The Good Communicator. 

(Jim Mooney, the deputy director of a multistate independent school organization, visited me in South Carolina, and we continued our summer conversation on school leadership.)

As we moved from our discussion on effective communication, Jim plunged right in: “The single biggest complaint I hear about headmasters and heads of school concerns the host of issues around making decisions, rolling them out, and moving forward.”

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