Refine your leadership effectiveness and expand your leadership legacy!

Whether you're an aspiring leader, or you consider yourself a veteran searching for a fresh perspective, leadership in an age of disruption, high expectations, and exploding demands is challenging.

In addition to wise applications of power, this small, yet robust, book focuses on the duty leaders face to forge and strengthen bonds of trust and further the school improvement agenda. Designed to ignite your intellectual curiosity, the author coaches leaders on:

• Honing the dispositions and interpersonal competencies necessary for leadership effectiveness
• Strengthening self-regard and attitudes toward others
• Developing a strong human rights orientation
• Ensuring that equity and excellence go hand in hand
• Defining what it takes to inspire and motivate others to act
• Implementing an inside-out approach that empowers them to be agile and flexible leaders

Well suited for any organizational setting, the ideas and action steps offered in Reaching the Heart of Leadership aim to re-ignite the passion and determination in individuals who continue to make a difference in the lives of those they serve.

"Avis Glaze's views on leadership are unique and powerful for one main reason. She puts things together that people don't usually think are compatible, thereby reaching new heights and depths of insight and efficacy. She combines empathy and determination; respect and candor; high expectations and persistent patience. The bottom line is as close to 100% success as possible, with every percentage point below 100 unacceptable. Accordingly, Reaching the Heart of Leadership is chock full of unusual insights. For each chapter there are lessons learned, and action steps to be taken, but understand that none of this is about slogans, and all of it has been tested and learned through hard practice. Avis does wear her heart on her sleeve; but also she wears it in every action relationship she encounters. For Avis, every value is a competency and every competency is a value. Read this book and be inspired to be the best leader you can ever be."

Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus

OISE/University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About the Author
See Avis's Presenter Profile Here! Dr. Avis Glaze is known as an international leader in the field of education. As one of Canada's outstanding educators, she has won many awards for her work in areas such as leadership development, student achievement, school and system improvement, character development and equity of student outcomes. She was a Commissioner on Ontario's Royal Commission on Learning, influencing the direction of education in that province. As Ontario's first Chief Student Achievement Officer and founding CEO of the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat, she played a pivotal role in improving student achievement in Ontario schools. Dr. Glaze has been a tireless advocate for both excellence and equity in education. She is passionate about the enhancement of public education and believes that educators play a fundamental role in sustaining democracy. Her major assertion, based on her experience as a leader in Ontario's literacy and numeracy strategy implementation, is that educators have both the will and the skill to improve education. For her, capacity building is at the heart of school improvement. Dr. Glaze served as Ontario's Education Commissioner and Senior Adviser to the Ontario Minister of Education and as Professor in Residence in the Faculty of Education at the University of Otawa. Currently, she is President of Edu-quest International Inc. offering a wide range of educational services across the globe. She continues to motivate and inspire educators through speaking engagements and by consulting with school districts, non-profit organizations and businesses to maximize talent and achieve results. Recently, she was appointed as Adviser to the Minister of Education in New Zealand.

Reviews
"Avis Glaze's views on leadership are unique and powerful for one main reason. She puts things together that people don't usually think are compatible, thereby reaching new heights and depths of insight and efficacy. She combines empathy and determination; respect and candour; high expectations and persistent patience. The bottom line is as close to 100% success as possible, with every percentage point below 100 unacceptable. Accordingly, Reaching the Heart of Leadership is chock full of unusual insights. For each chapter there are lessons learned, and action steps to be taken, but understand that none of this is about slogans, and all of it has been tested and learned through hard practice. Avis does wear her heart on her sleeve; but also she wears it in every action relationship she encounters. For Avis, every value is a competency and every competency is a value. Read this book and be inspired to be the best leader you can ever be." -- Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus

"If we truly want leaders who can foster a supportive and inclusive school climates that focus on learning, we should start by having them reflect on their moral compass. In Reaching the Heart of Leadership: Lessons Learned, Insights Gained, Actions Taken, Avis Glaze leans on her deeply rich experience and offers, not only a call for moral purpose, but actions at each level to get leaders there. It is a wonderfully insightful and important read."

-- Peter DeWitt, Ed.D., Corwin Author/Consultant

"Glaze's Reaching the Heart of Leadership speaks to an array of leaders-principals, teachers, community partners, families, and students, who, she insists, are at the epicenter of educational leadership. This book provides solid rationales, guidance and concrete actions on how educators can achieve and rise above the cacophony of demands for improved outcomes, higher standards, and increased accountability. Educators are encouraged to draw upon the competencies of empathy, advocacy, a strong human rights and social justice orientation, and a commitment to further action - with a sense of urgency. Glaze outlines an education that enhances students' critical and analytic stances on the world around them; develops their identities as empathetic local and global citizens; and animates and strengthens their multicultural, multilingual, and multi-literacy competencies in all curricular areas to deepen and broaden their learning and aspirations for their futures. This is an essential book for current and aspiring teachers and administrators."

-- Allison Skerrett, Ph.D., Associate Professor

"Reaching the Heart of Leadership strikes a chord with each of us as it is practical, clear and concise. Dr. Avis Glaze speaks from experience, expertise, and her heart in this succinct action-guide for leaders at every level. Truly a must-read for all aspiring, inquiring educational leaders who want to make a difference for every learner in their care."

-- Dr. Lyn Sharratt, International Consultant and Author

"Dr. Avis Glaze shares the deep wisdom gained from her celebrated career in education. In Reaching the Heart of Leadership, she reflects on "what she knows for sure" about the human condition and school leadership, and she reminds us all of the importance of putting people first, practicing empathy, and developing positive relationships as the tools to impact school improvement. A master teacher always leaves us learning and reflecting. In this book, Dr. Glaze does just that. It's a "must have" for your professional library."

-- Deirdre Kinsella Biss, Editor
"Reaching the Heart of Leadership deftly weaves together history, reflection, insights gained from lived experience, practical advice and inspiration. The mantra of 'leading from the heart" is both timely and timeless. Transcending education and educational leadership, the values espoused in this book easily extend across jurisdictions and to other scenarios that involve relationships of power." -- Claudette Williams, Ph.D., Professor Emerita



Book Information
ISBN 9781506325323
Author Avis E. Glaze
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Corwin Press Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 230g