Andy Hargreaves

What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success? The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever. Leaders who uplift their employees' passions, intellects, and commitments produce remarkable results. Based on original research from a seven-year global study, Uplifting Leadership reveals how leaders from diverse organizations inspired and uplifted their teams' performance. Distilling the six common characteristics of leaders at high-performing organizations across business, sports, and education, authors Andy Hargreaves, Alan Boyle, and Alma Harris explore the nature of uplift, its impact on performance, and the ways to achieve it within and beyond an organization's walls, revealing how leaders: Identify and articulate an inspiring dream that is coherently connected to the best of what the organization has been beforePursue that dream at a sustainable pace without squandering resources, incurring excessive debt, or burning people outForge paths of innovation and improvement that others have overlooked or rejectedMonitor progress by using metrics and indicators in a mindful and meaningful wayBuild teams that naturally pull people into change rather than pushing them through it Featuring case studies of organizations as diverse as Shoebuy.com, Fiat, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Marks & Spencer, Cricket Australia, Burnley Football Club, and the Vancouver Giants, as well as world-leading educational systems, Uplifting Leadership provides tools for leaders to incorporate these performance-driving strategies into their own. For leaders who want their people to try harder, transform what they do, reach for a higher purpose, and stay resolute and resilient when opposing forces threaten to defeat them, Uplifting Leadership provides a path to better performance across any organization.

Denne bog er en lettilgængelig tilgang til moralsk funderet skoleledelse – en bæredygtig skoleledelse, der understøtter læring. Bogen er bygget op om syv enkle principper, der præsenteres i syv tilsvarende kapitler: • Dybde – læring og identitet • Længde – vedholdenhed og efterfølgelse • Bredde – udbredelse, ikke uddelegering • Retfærdighed – andre og os selv • Mangfoldighed – kompleksitet og sammenhæng • Ressourcestyrke – tilbageholdenhed og fornyelse • Bevarelse – historie og arvPrincipperne refererer bredt til aktuelle udviklingstendenser på det nære skoleplan såvel som til overordnede udviklingsplaner og -politikker. Altid med udgangspunkt i detaljerede case-beskrivelser.De to forfattere har noget på hjerte. De har set meget i og uden om skolen, de er velorienterede, og de insisterer på at drage nytte af deres indsigt.Bogen henvender sig til alle med interesse for pædagogisk ledelse, ledelsesudvikling og ikke mindst for bæredygtige undervisningstiltag.

Forfatterne ønsker en bærekraftig skole og skisserer en modell for hvordan skoleledere kan finne frem til de faktorene som bidrar til at skolen alltid er i utvikling. Den fjerde vei har fellesskap og mangfold som sitt verdifundament, og modellen tar utgangspunkt i atutviklingen er forankret hos ledelsen, investering i hele skolen gir bærekraftig læring, at alle i samfunnet samarbeider om å ta ansvar for utviklingen, at elever, lærere og skoleledere må være endringsvillige og tilstedeværende (mindful) læring og undervisningForfatterne er visjonære. De ønsker at boken skal være en inspirasjon til endring i skolen, og de viser eksempler på skolepolitikk og skolevirksomhet i mange forskjellige land.

The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order, these two world authorities—who know teaching and leadership inside out—set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education.Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching and shows us how to change them by demanding more of the teaching profession and more from the systems that support it. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore.Book Features:A powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools.Action guidelines for all groups—individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders.A next-generation update of core themes from the authors’ bestselling book, What’s Worth Fighting for in Your School?

In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original framework of seven principles for sustainable leadership characterized by Depth of learning and real achievement rather than superficially tested performance; Length of impact over the long haul, beyond individual leaders, through effectively managed succession; Breadth of influence, where leadership becomes a distributed responsibility; Justice in ensuring that leadership actions do no harm to and actively benefit students in other schools; Diversity that replaces standardization and alignment with diversity and cohesion; Resourcefulness that conserves and renews leaders' energy and doesn't burn them out; and Conservation that builds on the best of the past to create an even better future. This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education—a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.

We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time chance to reshape the future of teaching and schooling and that we should seize this historic opportunity. Hargreaves sets out what it means to teach in the new knowledge society - to prepare young people for a world of creativity and flexibility and to protect them against the threats of mounting insecurity. He provides inspiring examples of schools that operate as creative and caring learning communities and shows how years of ""soulless standardization"" have seriously undermined similar attempts made by many nonaffluent schools. Hargreaves takes us beyond the dead-ends of standardization and divisiveness to a future in which all teaching can be a high-skill, creative, life-shaping mission because ""the knowledge society requires nothing less.

In a complex and multi-layered world, the conventional idea of great leadership being the result of the efforts of a single individual is rapidly becoming redundant. This book takes up the challenge of finding an alternative method of leadership in educational contexts, and looks at how this can help achieve sustained improvement in schools. The authors acknowledge that there are no simple solutions to school improvement. They argue that the effective leaders of the future will be those who are able to share responsibility, build positive relationships and offer stakeholders - teachers, parents and students - an opportunity to work together to improve their schools. The book is based around four key areas of concern: the changing context of leadership, leadership and school improvement, building leadership capacity, and future direction and implications. In each section, the authors discuss current theories and issues, and put forward alternative ideas and perspectives. This important book will make valuable reading for headteachers, principles, deputies and other senior teachers, particularly those undertaking leadership qualifications and training. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students and school governors.

In a complex and multi-layered world, the conventional idea of great leadership being the result of the efforts of a single individual is rapidly becoming redundant. This book takes up the challenge of finding an alternative method of leadership in educational contexts, and looks at how this can help achieve sustained improvement in schools. The authors acknowledge that there are no simple solutions to school improvement. They argue that the effective leaders of the future will be those who are able to share responsibility, build positive relationships and offer stakeholders - teachers, parents and students - an opportunity to work together to improve their schools. The book is based around four key areas of concern: the changing context of leadership, leadership and school improvement, building leadership capacity, and future direction and implications. In each section, the authors discuss current theories and issues, and put forward alternative ideas and perspectives. This important book will make valuable reading for headteachers, principles, deputies and other senior teachers, particularly those undertaking leadership qualifications and training. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students and school governors.