Leading for Educational Lives

Leading for Educational Lives
Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World

ISBN: 978-94-6209-552-6
224 pages, Paperback

This book is written for the growing number of people (teachers, administrators, support staff, parents, and community members) throughout the world who wish to face the challenges of school leadership in ways that feel right, make sense, and contribute to sustaining defensible educational practices.

Using and extending the evolving core ideas of the global inviting school movement, it provides a hopeful approach to educational leadership, management, and mentorship that combines philosophical defensibility, administrative savvy, and illustrative stories. A systematic framework for examining the challenges of educational leadership, the Educational LIVES model is used to organize the book. It is centered on the idea that leadership is fundamentally about people and the caring and ethical relationships they establish with themselves, others, values and knowledge, institutions, and the larger human and other-than-human world.

Emphasized throughout the book are the special quality of relationships needed to appreciate individuals in their uniqueness and the types of messages that intentionally call forth their potential to live educational lives. We call this approach the inviting perspective and offer the experiences of educators from around the world who put imaginative acts of hope into practice daily as they lead, manage, and mentor.

Preview a portion of Chapter 1 at: https://www.sensepublishers.com/media/1927-leading-for-educational-lives(1).pdf

 About the Authors

 John M. Novak is Professor of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Education at Brock University, Ontario, Canada.  An invited speaker around the world, he has given keynote addresses from north of the Arctic Circle to the bottom of New Zealand.  A former public school teacher and three-time chair of his department, he is also a past president of the Society of Professors of Education and has written a dozen books and monographs on Invitational Education, John Dewey, and educational leadership.

Denise E. Armstrong is an Associate Professor in Administration and Leadership in the Faculty of Education at Brock University and has also worked in a variety of K-12 institutions in Canada and the Caribbean as a professor, administrator, and teacher.  Her research and writing focus on ethical leaderships and social justice.  She is the author of Administrative Passages: Navigating the Transition from Teacher to Assistant Principal and co-author of Inclusion in Urban Educational Environments: Addressing Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice.

 Brendan Browne is a Superintendent of Education with the Halton Catholic District School Board.  He has been a classroom, special education, and itinerant teacher in both elementary and secondary schools, and a vice-principal and principal in several diverse and distinct school communities.  In addition, he has a Ph.D in Educational Leadership and has written and presented on Invitational Leadership and Theory around the world.  He is interested in the intersection of ideas and ideals in contemporary schools.