Renegade Leadership: Creating Innovative Schools for Digital-Age Students
English
By (author): Brad R. Gustafson
Get ready to be a renegade with this how-to leadership guide.
Were all looking for the next best app and whats just beyond the tech horizon. But why dont we have the same progressive appetite for pedagogy that we have for technology? Renegade leadership may just be the answer weve been searching for.
Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership demands a call to action in the digital age by creating student-centered instructional leadership that connects equity, culture, and technology. After reading this book, you will learn how to:
- Apply transformational tenets of connected pedagogy to your work
- Increase your leadership capacity in curriculum, instruction, cultural proficiency, and school improvement
- Lead staff meetings, plan personalized professional development, and improve student learning through more responsive teaching practices
Using the latest research, vignettes from educational leaders, and profiles of inspiring renegades, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age. The only real question isare you ready to become a renegade?
Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education. Why cant schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?
George Couros, Innovative teaching, learning, and leadership consultant and Author of The Innovators Mindset; Alberta, Canada
Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined.
Jon Corippo, Director of Academic Innovation, CUE
Renegade Leadership demonstrates what student-centered schools look like in the digital age. When we get relationships and pedagogy right, we can transform the very nature of learning. This is a book our students desperately need us all to read.
Erin Klein, Scholastic Top Teacher and Michigan Teacher of the Year