Caring Enough to Lead: Schools and the Sacred Trust.Associate Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University Stephen F. Austin is one of four public universities in Texas not affiliated with a university system. Academics Stephen F. Austin offers more than 120 areas of study, including more than 80 undergraduate majors, nearly 60 graduate degrees, and two doctoral programs. Stephen F. , Nacogdoches, Texas Nacogdoches (pronounced [ˌnæːkə̆ˈdoʊtʃɪs]) is a city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 29,914. Educational leaders do not merely convey knowledge. They must also have the heart and soul to lead with commitment to the moral dimensions of leadership. In Caring Enough to Lead: Schools and the Sacred Trust, author Leonard 0. Pellicer uses scenarios, vignettes, personal stories, metaphors and reflections in an easy-to-read, thoughtful manner. The reader is challenged to consider his assertion that leadership is not something that one does. Rather, it is something one becomes. Pellicer expands the moral dimension of leadership through discussions that help readers decide what's most important to them. The question, "What do I care about?" is critical to leadership, he contends, because a leader will defend, fight for and sacrifice for things he or she most strongly believes in. In one chapter, readers are asked to examine their personal beliefs about dealing with professional colleagues. In another chapter titled "Am I Taking Care of My Water Buffalo water buffalo: see buffalo. water buffalo or Indian buffalo Any of three subspecies of oxlike bovid (species Bubalus bubalis). Two have been domesticated in Asia since the earliest recorded history. ?" the value that different individuals contribute to an organization is presented almost as a parable parable, the term translates the Hebrew word "mashal"—a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy. In the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, however, "parables" were illustrative narrative examples. Jewish teachers of the 1st cent. A.D. . Leadership is not just a narrow, skill-based, how-to-do recipe for success, Pellicer says, but a much broader perspective with caring at the heart of being. (Caring Enough to Lead: Schools and the Sacred Trust, by Leonard 0. Pellicer, Corwin Press, 2455 Teller TELLER. An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. Road, Thoussand Oaks, Calif. 91320, 1999, 126 pp., $49.95 hardcover, $21.95 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) |
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