Mindful Leadership for Schools

The world today needs mindful leaders who care for the holistic well-being of their students and staff inspiring all to renew schools with compassion creativity and courage. But what is mindful leadership and how can leaders create and sustain mindful schools?<br/> <br/><i>Mindful Leadership for Schools</i> draws on the educational thought of Confucius and explores how Confucian mindful leadership (CML) can offer a solution. This book shows how a Confucian mindful leader is one who attends to self others things and events respectfully promoting the virtues of love harmony and social justice through personal cultivation role-modelling community-building coaching and initiating reforms. Tan explores how this approach complements and strengthens authentic instructional distributed and transformational leadership strategies offering a novel and practical leadership approach that combines ancient wisdom and modern educational research.