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From:The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School
“Our work, our relationships, and, in fact, our very lives succeed or fail gradually, then suddenly, one conversation at a time.” —Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations (2004) Donna is an educational testing specialist... -
From:The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School“Once a person has consciously embraced his or her leadership role and embarked on an inner journey to stay in touch with the soul’s imperatives, life can and usually does get challenging. . . . Quietude and clarity are...
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From:The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper....
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From:The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School“Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels—federal, state, district, and school—in our current systems and in the...
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From:The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School“When your mind changes, your brain changes too. . . . And what happens in your brain changes your mind, since the brain and mind are a single, integrated system.” —Richard Hanson, PhD, Buddha’s Brain (2009) We were...
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From:The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School“Some leaders recognize and hear wake-up calls—clear signs and messages that their lives have become something they do not want. These calls can be a first critical step to intentional change.” —Richard Boyatzis and...
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From:The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School“[T]here is a limit to the role of the intelligence in human affairs.” —James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (1955) Jonathan, a 52-year-old chief academic officer (CAO) of a large suburban district in California, is...