Jane a. G. Kise

Women have incredible potential to drive change in education if they step up to lead at all levels. In Step In, Step Up, authors Jane A. G. Kise and Barbara K. Watterston guide current and aspiring women leaders through a twelve-week leadership journey. An assortment of activities, reflection prompts, and stories empower readers to overcome gender barriers to female leadership and engage in opportunities to learn, grow, and lead within their school communities. This book will inspire you to step into educational leadership with confidence. Examine the need for women in leadership positions at schools and districts. Consider your own leadership identity and learn where to make adjustments. Feel empowered to overcome gender barriers, female stereotypes, and the double bind experienced by women in leadership roles. Gain tools and strategies for creating an action plan for effective instructional leadership in schools. Learn about hard and soft leadership skills and their value in educational leadership. Complete reflection activities to reinforce learning and professional leadership development. Contents: About the Authors Introduction: The Why and How of Women's Leadership Journey Chapter 1: Engaging Women in School Leadership Chapter 2: Navigating Gender Barriers Chapter 3: Finding Time for the Leadership Journey Chapter 4: Readying Yourself for Stepping Up Chapter 5: Taking the Path to Maturity Chapter 6: Knowing Your Hardwired Strengths Chapter 7: Challenging Your High-Flying and Limiting Beliefs Chapter 8: Exploring Emotional Intelligence Chapter 9: Making Yourself Heard Chapter 10: Finding the Courage for Tough Conversations Chapter 11: Encouraging More Women to Lead Chapter 12: Crafting Your Identity as a Female Leader A Final Note References and Resources Index

It's time to make your mental bandwidth work for you. Being an educator is more stressful than ever, and teachers and administrators must constantly shift gears to stay on top of the newest initiatives and students' ever-changing needs. Educator Bandwidth: How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, and Time provides the tools and strategies to reduce stress, avoid burnout, and regain the time that gets lost to interruptions, temptations, competing demands, and task-switching. The first step is to understand how much stress is weighing on your own mental bandwidth. Professional development experts Jane A. G. Kise and Ann Holm have developed the Brain Energy and Bandwidth Survey to help you self-assess the six key factors that contribute to bandwidth:Balance between prioritiesFiltering through possibilitiesMental habits that improve focusPhysical habits that fuel the brainConnection with othersWorkload and time managementKise and Holm combine the latest neuroscience research with their own extensive experience working with educators to bring the most effective strategies and habits that help you manage your mental bandwidth and prioritize drains on mental energy. When you can establish good habits, focus on what's possible within your locus of control, and balance priorities, you can improve your educator bandwidth and feel more engaged, centered, and effective in your work.

Differentiating for students' learning preferences can often seem too complex and complicated for too little gain. Learn a better way forward with the guidance of Doable Differentiation. Author Jane A. G. Kise provides a series of straightforward, high-reward strategies that K-12 educators like you successfully use in their daily practice to support, engage, and challenge students with diverse learning styles. Understand the benefits of differentiation and how to implement differentiated instruction simply and effectively. Learn students' preferred cognitive processing styles to better tailor differentiated lesson plans for all learners' needs. Discover 12 categories of research-based differentiation strategies to implement immediately. Provide students with a variety of accessible options for processing information, engaging in higher-level thinking, and demonstrating learning. Engage learners and develop their proficiency and self-efficacy. Contents: Introduction: What Makes Differentiation Doable? Part 1: The Foundation Chapter 1: Cognitive Processes and Effective Differentiation Chapter 2: Clear Learning Goals and Expectations Part 2: The Strategies Chapter 3: Choice Chapter 4: Wait Time Chapter 5: Unambiguous Instruction Chapter 6: Pressure-Prompted Accommodations Chapter 7: Student-Centered Discussions Chapter 8: Curiosity Creators Chapter 9: Open Questions Chapter 10: Concept Maps Chapter 11: Big Notes Chapter 12: Moveable Organizers Chapter 13: Planned Movement Chapter 14: Talking to Write Part 3: Lesson Planning Chapter 15: Two-Step Differentiation Epilogue References and Resources Index

Build a school where students flourish academically while also meeting their social and emotional learning needs. In this practical school leadership book, author Jane A. G. Kise offers a toolkit of strategies specially designed to support the leadership development goals and daily work of school leaders. Learn how to overcome ongoing school leadership challenges, navigate competing priorities, and unite your entire school community around one common purpose: supporting whole-child learning. Lead schools in teaching the whole student, with help from this educational leadership book: Understand the benefits of student engagement and having the whole child present in the classroom. Study the twelve lenses of school leadership -- core educational leadership responsibilities that are essential for leading whole-child schools. Overcome biases and balance student and adult needs by developing leadership skills and emotional intelligence. Learn how effective educational leadership goal-setting can create an environment strengthened by collaborative trust, where students and educators feel engaged and motivated. Gain insight into SMART goal-setting for leadership development, establishing a priority focus to achieve real goals. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Developing Leadership for Whole-Child Schools Chapter 2: Thinking in Terms of Both and And: A Core Leadership Competency Chapter 3: Understanding Emotional Intelligence and Leading for the Whole Child Chapter 4: Leading Toward a Common Vision and Guiding Others in Leading Themselves Chapter 5: Implementing Initiatives and Making Them Meaningful Chapter 6: Building a Collaborative Learning Community and Ensuring That Individuals Have Autonomy Chapter 7: Taking Reality Into Account and Pursuing a Vision Chapter 8: Building on Current Success and Changing to Meet the Future Chapter 9: Moving Ahead Quickly and Moving Ahead for the Long Haul Chapter 10: Balancing Logical Objectivity and Valuable Subjectivity Chapter 11: Getting Results and Building Trust Chapter 12: Effectively Using Positional Power and Sharing Power Chapter 13: Having Clarity on What and Why and Having Flexibility on How Chapter 14: Planning for the Predictable and Embracing the Possible Chapter 15: Making Measurable Whole-Child Achievement Progress and Finding Purpose Chapter 16: Focusing on Your Priorities Appendix: Personality Type and the Lenses of Leadership

Author Jane Kise applies the tools of polarity management to four contemporary educational reform debates: The math wars Highly effective teachers/teacher evaluation (accountability and teacher development/support) Deep and wide curricula Proficiency and student engagement Chapters based on each of these topics discuss the polarity, following "See it. Map it. Tap it." The "see it" section provides an engaging history of each pole. In "map it", the upsides and downsides of each pole are discussed, including key research and stories from schools or educators who have tried each pole. "Tap it" brings together the ideas from experts on each pole regarding warning signs that the polarity is swinging out of balance as well as action steps to manage it well. The book also guides readers in applying polarity management to their local contexts and includes case studies, group exercises, facilitation instructions, and PD activities.

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This updated comprehensive guide helps people discover how God has uniquely created them. Engaging stories, inventories, self-tests, and other easy-to-use exercises make Discover Who You Are a one-of-a-kind tool. It will help those longing to find or deepen meaning in life, considering volunteer opportunities, contemplating career changes, or desiring to become more useful to God. The book, workbook, and leader's material provide all that's needed for a LifeKeys workshop.

This updated comprehensive guide helps people discover how God has uniquely created them. Engaging stories, inventories, self-tests, and other easy-to-use exercises make Discover Who You Are a one-of-a-kind tool. It will help those longing to find or deepen meaning in life, considering volunteer opportunities, contemplating career changes, or desiring to become more useful to God. The book, workbook, and leader's material provide all that's needed for a LifeKeys workshop.