Renewal: Breathing New Life into School Leadership

Its Time to Think Differently About School Leadership Unquestioned educational practices must be re-examined. Now more than ever we need to breathe new life into school leadership to bring much-needed hope for renewal into our classrooms and schools. Our humanitys future rests on the shoulders of our young people who deserve the most effective empowered collective of teachers possible. Working and learning together with teachers across corridors departments and disciplines school leaders can make this a reality. In this one-of-a-kind exploration into the practice of school leadership Dr. Carolyn Cameron moves beyond leadership theory or prescriptive how to be a leader guidelines. She courageously addresses the gap between knowing and doing and takes a deep dive into the space of being a school leader dedicated to the work of nurturing the authentic learning of students and their teachers. Cameron draws on her own lived experiences as a teacher principal and district principal. She adds to this personal journey the insights of colleagues scholars philosophers and researchers and takes inspiration from poets writers and students. This ground-breaking book weaves all of this together in a way that will cause the reader to think differently about teaching learning leading and perhaps even life itself.