Leadership Can Be Taught.Leadership Can Be Taught by Sharon Sharon, city, United States Sharon (shâr`ən), city (1990 pop. 17,493), Mercer co., NW Pa., on the Shenango River, near the Ohio line; settled c.1800, inc. as a city 1920. Daloz Parks, Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. Press, Boston Boston, town, England Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent. , Mass., 2005, 287 pp. with index, $29.95 hardcover How do we develop future superintendents and other leaders of school systems? In Leadership Can Be Taught, Sharon Daloz Parks, director of the Whidbey Institute's Leadership for the New Commons initiative, thoughtfully adds to the theory and practice of leadership by studying the case-in-point teaching approach of Harvard professor and author Ronald Heifetz. Parks documents the classroom as a leadership opportunity and shares the challenges associated with being a learner in that environment. As a result, she pulls readers into the class while simultaneously challenging us to think in new ways about our own leadership and the role we each play in building future leaders Future Leaders is a UK schools-led charitable organisation that aims to widen the pool of talented leaders especially for urban challenging secondary schools. It was founded in March 2006 by Nat Wei, a former founder of Teach First. . Leadership Can Be Taught surfaces key issues for both the practitioner and the leadership educator within us. For example, each school leader will identify with the chapter on "Learning from Failure in Public." Parks acknowledges the "enormous pressures to finesse fi·nesse n. 1. Refinement and delicacy of performance, execution, or artisanship. 2. Skillful, subtle handling of a situation; tactful, diplomatic maneuvering. 3. failure and rarely, if ever, to admit to making a mistake." In the context of studying the Heifetz teaching style, she uncovers how we might use an issue such as failure to change our thinking about the practice of leadership to help prepare future leaders. Parks masterfully mas·ter·ful adj. 1. Given to playing the master; imperious or domineering. 2. Fit to command. 3. Revealing mastery or skill; expert: a masterful technique; masterful moviemaking. studies an outstanding leadership teacher, frames excellent teaching techniques and enriches the study of leadership by exploring how we can reconcile the "leader as hero" metaphor with the "leader as artist" perspective. As a result, she adds understanding and insight to our personal leadership journey. Reviewed by Brian L. Benzel, superintendent, Spokane, Wash., Public Schools |
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