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Balancing Leadership and Personal Growth
The School Administrator's Guide
- Christa Metzger - California State University, Northridge, California
Foreword by Paul D. Houston, Executive Director, AASA
April 2006 | 168 pages | Corwin
How can school administrators not only survive but also maintain a positive vision and a sense of purpose for improving education in such an environment? What personal coping strategies can leaders use to successfully meet the challenges of their jobs and maintain a balance in their lives?
This book aims to help school leaders be more successful at focusing on the most critical goal of all education professionals – to promote maximum student learning while staying healthy and balanced. It provides strategies for school leaders to better cope with stresses and changes, remain healthy, attain a balanced life, and find meaning in who they are and what they do.
Foreword by Paul D. Houston
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Taking Care of Yourself as Well as You Do Others
2. Defining Personal Growth
3. Finding Time for Yourself While Working on Behalf of Others
4. Strategies for Personal Growth: Becoming a More Balanced Person
5. Physical Activities: Taking Care of Your Body
6. Reflective Reading: Nourishing Your Spirit and Soul
7. Music, Art, Writing, and Other Creative Work: Engaging Transformative Powers
8. Time for and With Yourself: Silence, Solitude and Meditation
9. Dreamwork: Knowing Your Whole Self
10. Spending Time With Those Who Care About You: Another Way to Balance
11. Fulfilling Your Purpose as a Leader and Finding Meaning as a Person
Resources for Further Learning
References
Index
"Administrators need safe places to feel vulnerable—the pages in this book reveal ways to find these safe places to make meaning of who we are at our core. Ultimately, the beneficiaries of personal growth in school leaders are school communities."