Transformative Leader’s Roadmap: Systematically Actualize Your School’s Full Potential

A transformative leader exists within every educator. And each school possesses the capacity for growth and excellence. This book will be your roadmap for actualizing your school’s full potential. It is intended to be utilized by leaders in any role within a school – principals, directors, coordinators, chairs, coaches, team leaders and teacher leaders.

The roadmap outlined in this book provides a theoretical foundation and practical steps to guide your institutional improvement work. It gives the reader a clear sense of where their school is currently and what would be required to move up the improvement “pathway” to more actualized roadmap locations. The development of the roadmap represents 20 plus years of research into over 500 schools, countless interviews and conversations with transformative leaders, and involvement within multiple school improvement efforts.

The chapters of the book progress developmentally. In the initial chapters, the elements of the roadmap are built into a complete model. The chapters in section two provide clear insights and practical guidance in the following areas:

• Cultivating the quality of trust at the school.
• Facilitating a school-wide vision.
• Empowering instructional leadership for improved practice.
• A meaningful process for engaging strategic planning and decision-making.
• Examining your school climate with a comprehensive systems framework.
• Using classroom management and discipline to support your school’s improvement process.

This foundational content is then synthesized into three culminating chapters. Chapters twelve provides a clear set of instructions for improving a school which is currently at a lower level on the roadmap by way of encouraging greater capacity, coherence, and intention. Chapter thirteen explains how to move a school currently in the middle to high range on the “pathway” to the highest realms on the roadmap, defined by trust, empowerment, and connection. Finally, Chapter fourteen engages you, the leader, in an exercise of self-reflection, and personal vision setting.

When we have a meaningful understanding of where we are, can clearly see where we are going, and recognize in practical operational terms what is required to improve, we can act effectively and trust our steps. This book is your roadmap for systematically actualizing your school’s potential with confidence.