Breaking Out of Isolation
eBook - ePub

Breaking Out of Isolation

Becoming a Connected School Leader

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eBook - ePub

Breaking Out of Isolation

Becoming a Connected School Leader

About this book

Fresh ideas to help you meet the challenges of innovative leadership!

Overcome the hurdles of being a school leader and stay ahead with this helpful guide to battling isolation and getting connected. Through powerful vignettes and strategies, you'll discover how innovation-minded school leaders connect to avoid isolation, lower stress, find support, and share ideas. Grow your professional practice and learn to:

  • Jumpstart and sustain your Professional Learning Network
  • Strategically and meaningfully connect with colleagues and staff
  • Overcome isolation for lasting impact

Includes tips for Twitter, Google Hangouts, Pinterest and more. Get real-world solutions with this easy-to-follow roadmap to transformational change!  

The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it's a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning. To explore the other books in this series, visit the 

"School leadership is a challenge that is made more difficult through isolation, but it doesn't have to be that way. The authors lead you to reflect on what isolates you and share practical ways to help get connected.  A must read for connected and soon to be connected leaders!"
Todd Whitaker, Professor of Department of Educational Leadership
Indiana State University


"Filled with real-time examples and reflection questions from three dynamic, active principals who?ve crafted their own connected and growing practices, this book is a comforting guide for anyone seeking to establish a personal or professional learning network, and lays a Twitter-connected path to the next steps of leadership development."
Kirsten Olson, Ed.D, PCC
Author of The Mindful School Leader and Wounded By School


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Information

Publisher
Corwin
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781483392424
eBook ISBN
9781483392431

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. About the Authors
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 On an Island by Yourself
  11. Chapter 2 Finding Your Professional Learning Network
  12. Chapter 3 Maintaining Balance
  13. Chapter 4 Embracing Isolation and Connection With Mindset
  14. Chapter 5 Now What? So What? What’s Next?
  15. Resource People We Follow and Why
  16. References
  17. Publisher Note