Make Time To Recharge
Growth and renewal play key roles in sustaining school leaders
By Learning Forward
Categories: Leadership, Learning designsAugust 2015
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Reflection
- Please use these questions to reflect on your own work and leadership.
- What are you doing to care for your renewal? How is this working for you?
- What is one additional thing that you could do for yourself that would feel supportive and restorative?
- What is something that you would like to grow about yourself or your leadership? How might others (e.g. a reflective partner or inquiry group) help you grow and learn in service to this goal?
What makes up your central dot?
Use these questions to consider the core elements that make up your own self (the central dot) and how they inform your leadership.
- What values, beliefs, and influences do you think inform your central dot or self?
- What values do you hope others see in your leadership?
- How do you try to share/communicate what is most important to you with others?
- What is something you would like to learn or grow about yourself to further strengthen your leadership?
References
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Drago-Severson, E. (2007). Helping teachers learn: Principals as professional development leaders. Teachers College Record, 109(1), 70-125.
Drago-Severson, E. (2009). Leading adult learning: Supporting adult development in our schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press & NSDC.
Drago-Severson, E. (2012a). Helping educators grow: Strategies and practices for leadership development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Drago-Severson, E. (2012b). The need for principal renewal: The promise of sustaining principals through principal-to-principal reflective practice. Teachers College Record, 114(12), 1-56.
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Categories: Leadership, Learning designs
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