The Brain and Strengths Based School Leadership

The Brain and Strengths Based School Leadership
by Sheryl G. Feinstein, Robert W. Kiner
Paperback: 224 pages
Published: May 31, 2011
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1412988454
ISBN-13: 9781412988452

The authors connect current cognitive research with the challenges of educational leadership, outline four leadership styles, and demonstrate how to capitalize on your strengths.
This book is written as a resource for those who accept the challenge and opportunity to fine-tune their leadership style. School leaders, principals, assistant principals, curriculum coordinators, and teacher leaders alike will learn, benefit, and grow. Cognitive knowledge of brain function, paired with new insights of strengths based leadership in schools, will help school leaders develop strategies that will enhance student learning in an environment that maximizes student and faculty potential.
Applying research from neuroscience to strengths based leadership allows leaders to maximize and capitalize on their skills. This book is designed to incorporate these concepts in an easy-to-follow format.
Chapters start with talking points that clue the reader into the heart of the subject matter. The first five chapters deal with pressing issues faced by every school leader, such as school climate, developmentally appropriate education, and results-oriented schools. Ground-breaking (along with basic) brain research is blended with strengths based leadership and reallife applications to form a solid base for school leadership.
Chapter 6 takes school leadership to the next level, focusing on shared leadership and leading teachers’ strengths. Application of the strengths based model is extended to working in leadership teams and to strategies for the effective leader to work with the strengths of teachers.