Dynamic Educational Leadership Teams: From Mine to Ours

by Matthew J. Jennings

Overview

Characterized by complex challenges and constant change, a school or district hierarchy can prove a difficult setting in which to establish high-performance teamwork. Dynamic Educational Leadership Teams: From Mine to Ours provides school and district level leaders with research-based, practical guidelines that they can use to create high-performing school- and district-level leadership teams. High-performing leadership teams emerge with adherence to Jennings's set of simple behavioral principles, which he teaches through a sequence of interactive activities on subjects ranging from promoting productive conflict to demanding mutual and individual accountability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578868483
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	07/25/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Matthew Jennings is currently Superintendent of Schools for Alexandria Township Public Schools (NJ).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Leadership Teams
Chapter 2 Composing a Leadership Team
Chapter 3 Creating a Common and Compelling Purpose
Chapter 4 Building Trust
Chapter 5 Promoting Productive Conflict
Chapter 6 Establishing Collective Commitment
Chapter 7 Demanding Mutual and Individual Accountability
Chapter 8 Focusing on Collective Results
Chapter 9 Leadership Team Meetings
Chapter 10 Appendix

Editorial Reviews

This is an easy read and descriptive. It's also solution-based. Jennings' suggestions for individual and team accountability are intriguing ideas that lend themselves to the development of a culture in which new ideas flourish.

School Administrator

In Dynamic Educational Leadership Teams: From Mine to Ours, Matthew Jennings shows how professional learning Communities and other school teams can dramatically increase their effectiveness by also becoming dynamic leadership teams. Readers will find this book engaging, sensible, and ground breaking.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

This is an easy read and descriptive. It's also solution-based. Jennings' suggestions for individual and team accountability are intriguing ideas that lend themselves to the development of a culture in which new ideas flourish.

December 2009 School Administrator