Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction - Robert W. Cole
1. What’s Spirituality Got to Do With It? - Paul D. Houston
2. The Spiritual Dimension of Leadership - Stephen L. Sokolow, Paul
D. Houston
3. Spiritual Courage: Leading From the Inside Out - Dawna
Markova
4. Appreciative Inquiry: A Strategy for Reshaping Education That
Builds on Strengths and Hopes - Bea Mah Holland
5. Community in School: The Heart of the Matter - Eric Schaps
6. The Stories of Practicing Superintendents: The Struggle to Make
the Right Decisions - Claire Sheff Kohn
7. Personal Growth in the Workplace: Spiritual Practices You Can
Use - Christa Metzger
8. Spiritually Oriented Leadership in a Secular Age - Chuck
Bonner
9. Spiritual Leadership: The Invisible Revolution - Scott
Thompson
10. Leadership on a Teeter-Totter: Balancing Rationality and
Spirituality - Terrence E. Deal
Index
Paul D. Houston has established himself as one of the leading
spokespersons for American education through his extensive speaking
engagements, published articles, and his regular appearances on
national radio and television. Formerly executive director of
the American Association of School Administrators from 1994 to
2008, Houston has served as a teacher and building
administrator in North Carolina and New Jersey. He has also served
as assistant superintendent in Birmingham, Alabama, and as
superintendent of schools in Princeton, NJ; Tucson, AZ; and
Riverside, CA. Houston has served in an adjunct capacity for the
University of North Carolina, Harvard University, Brigham Young
University, and Princeton University. He has served as a consultant
and speaker throughout the United States and overseas, and he has
published more than 100 articles in professional journals.
Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served
for 25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded
and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond
Tutu. A former “high-risk” youth, Alan began his career in
education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March
of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed
for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities
beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling
book Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student
Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of
the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is Senior Editor, lead
contributor, and/or author of 18 books, including Excellence
Through Equity with Pedro Noguera,. He also authored some 20
articles in leading education print including Education Week,
Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan
has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually
every major U.S. Ed Org, and throughout the UK, Africa, and the
Middle East. Alan has served on the Harvard International
Principals Centers advisory board, and the Jewish Child Care
Agency, where he once was a youth in residence. Robert W. Cole is
proprietor and founder of Edu-Data, a firm specializing in writing,
research, and publication services. He was a member of the staff of
Phi Delta Kappan magazine for 14 years: assistant editor 1974-1976,
managing editor 1976-1980, and editor-in-chief 1981-88. During his
tenure as editor-in-chief, the Kappan earned more than 40
Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of
Educational Publishers, three of them for his editorials.
Since leaving the Kappan, Cole has served as founding vice
president of the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform
(1990-1994). At CLSR he managed districtwide and communitywide
school reform efforts and led the team that created the Kentucky
Superintendents’ Leadership Institute. He formed the Bluegrass
Leadership Network, in which superintendents worked together to use
current leadership concepts to solve reform-oriented management and
leadership problems.
As senior consultant to the National Reading Styles Institute
(1994-2005), Cole served as editor and lead writer of the Power
Reading Program. He and a team of writers and illustrators created
a series of hundreds of graded short stories, short novels, and
comic books from Primer through Grade 10. Those stories were then
recorded by Cole and Marie Carbo; they are being used by schools
all across the United States to teach struggling readers.
Cole has served as a book development editor for the Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), for Corwin
Press, and for Writer’s Edge Press. He has been president of the
Educational Press Association of America and member of the EdPress
Board of Directors. He has presented workshops, master classes, and
lectures at universities nationwide, including Harvard University,
Stanford University, Indiana University, Xavier University, Boise
State University, and the University of Southern Maine. He has
served as a special consultant to college and university deans in
working with faculties on writing for professional publication.
Recently he began serving as managing editor and senior associate
with the Center for Empowered Leadership.
"This book will be useful to those who are trying to find a good
balance in their lives and add a dimension of spirituality to their
leadership."
*Kenneth Killian, Assistant Professor*
"The authors have made the information approachable,
nonthreatening, and personal. They provide information about their
own past roles as superintendents, which provides instant
credibility."
*Jennifer Baadsgaard, Assistant Principal*
"The book addresses a very important topic. There are some powerful
teachings in this volume, and it makes an important contribution to
the field."
*Lila Jacobs, Coordinator, Urban Leadership Program*
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