Leading & Creating Powerful Learning Relationships
George Otero, Robert Csoti & David Rothstadt
ISBN 978 1 74170 764 9 Code: HB7649
This edition describes a framework for leading a school that focuses all school activity on the factors that deliver the best learning outcomes. It is about what we really know is important for every child to succeed.
Sometimes we wonder if our schools are really helping people be better human beings. As leaders we need to reflect on whether we are actually doing the right thing. We have all wrestled with understanding how we can make a difference as educational leaders.
This book describes a framework for leading a school that focuses all school activity on the factors that deliver the best learning outcomes. It is about what we really know is important for every child to succeed.
This model came about because we have always known that high-level parent involvement leads to better student achievement, that strong in-depth relationships with students are critical to their success in school, that the curriculum needs to engage the student and that partnerships and support from the community is a positive influence on school success. The model creates an integrated picture or map of how to develop teaching and learning relationships that bring these four educational principles to the forefront of school activity.
The school leader can use this handbook to create opportunities for teaching and learning that mobilise all stakeholders. We, as leaders, have found this framework has helped us lead by a moral imperative rather than personal preferences.