The Constructivist Leader

Since the publication of the first edition in 1995, The Constructivist Leader has provided educational leaders at all levels with a conceptual framework for leadership defined as reciprocal, purposeful learning in community. Today, learning communities based on constructivist principles are a major part of the school improvement landscape.The Second Edition of this best-selling book enables readers to carry this constructivist vision and purpose forward, while effectively implementing standards-based reform, authentic assessment, and constructivist-based accountability.
The new Second Edition features:
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<li>An expanded theory of Constructivist Leadership based on a thorough examination of the most recent thinking in leadership, learning, and ethical communities. </li>
<li>A comprehensive approach to issues of equity, diversity, and multiculturalism.</li>
<li>Additional strategies and approaches for the implementation of constructivist leadership practice.</li>
<li>Principles and examples to guide new approaches to accountability.</li>
<li>New school and district stories of successful implementation of constructivist leadership.</li>
<li>A deeper focus on the district's role in influencing policy at state and national levels and in protecting schools and classrooms from the negative impact of unwise policies and mandates.</li>
<li>A new framework for the preparation of educational leaders.</li>
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Lambert, Linda

Walker, Deborah

Zimmerman, Diane P.

Cooper, Joanne E.

Lambert, Morgan Dale

Gardner, Mary E.

Szabo, Margaret

Management & Leadership

Teachers' College Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

During the past quarter century, conceptions of leadership have evolved in concert with breakthrough discoveries in science and generative learning. Liberating Leadership Capacity captures these new ideas through the integration of the authors’ earlier works in constructivist leadership and leadership capacity. What emerges is a pathway through which educators can become the primary designers of their own learning and that of their students, thus creating sustainable systems of high leadership capacity. This vision of leadership reframes professional learning designs and knowledge creation, describing how these ideas are richly manifested in local, national, and international programs. The context is democratic communities; the learning is constructivist; the leadership is shared. The result is wise schools, organizations, and societies. Liberating Leadership Capacity speaks to all adult learners who are engaged in educational improvement. 
Book Features:
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<li>A new concept of leadership as fostering capacity through the complex, dynamic processes of purposeful, reciprocal learning.</li>
<li>Leadership strategies constructed from the values of learning, democracy, equity and diversity.</li>
<li>Professional learning designed to involve community members in building leadership capacity. </li>
<li>A timely approach for the effective implementation of the Every Child Succeeds Act (S. 1177).</li>
<li>An in-depth analysis of the standards movement through the lens of capacity building.</li>
<li>An understanding of systemic change as an organic process arising from practice rather than being imposed on practice―approaches that unleash a sense of agency and wisdom.</li>
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Liberating Leadership Capacity: Pathways to Educational Wisdom

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Women's Ways of Leading invites the reader into a journey of self-discovery informed by a fresh definition of leadership that transcends position, role and hierarchy and proposes leadership as reciprocal learning in purposeful communities. Lambert and Gardner argue convincingly that this century needs women leaders who commit to values, are conscious of their evolving selves, invoke passion and courage, arouse the imagination, create community and mentor the next generation. Based on the findings of a series of studies examining women leaders across multiple fields of endeavors, the latest findings in brain research and psychology, and case studies from the lives of some of the world's most remarkable women leaders, Women's Ways of Leading sets forth provocative possibilities for a world led equally by enlightened women and men. For two decades, Linda Lambert and Mary Gardner have worked together as colleagues, friends and co-authors on two best-selling books on leadership, The Constructivist Leader (1995, 2002). They served in top-level leadership positions, engaged in research on women and leadership, consulted internationally, and mentored the next generation of women leaders. Dr. Lambert is also lead author of Who Will Save Our Schools?, three books on leadership capacity and dozens of articles. She worked to set up community schools for girls in Egypt and advised organizations in Canada, England, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Mexico, and throughout the United States. A former social worker, school principal and university professor, Lambert is the president of Lambert Leadership Development, The Sea Ranch, California. Gardner is the former superintendent of the Saratoga, California, school district, a visiting practitioner at Harvard University, and a professor of educational leadership. She consults with non-profit organizations and has served on five boards of directors.

Women's Ways of Leading

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