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 "This book is a welcome relief for school leaders in our complex and uncertain times. Jane Kise elegantly helps us navigate this bumpy road through twelve core leadership lenses. She reminds us that, while it is important to focus on the road ahead, it is equally critical to balance the drive by checking the rearview mirror and our blind spots at the same time." -- Karen Power , author, leadership and school improvement coach "Jane Kise's Holistic Leadership, Thriving Schools is a book with heft and wisdom. Kise has such an approachable voice, and with her expertise and her takeaways in each chapter, the reader becomes more emotionally aware, more flexible, and much more effective. I had so many aha moments throughout the text, and I will be digging into it over and over again to find language and insight that will no doubt build my leadership capacity and help the schools in which I work." -- Jennifer Abrams , author of Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives "I feel inspired, affirmed, and motivated when I read the text. There are so many thoughtful approaches to the challenges our education leaders face every day. This is a book you won't be able to put down." -- Stephanie Hirsh , executive director, Learning Forward "Our drive to improve student learning seems to constantly shuttle us back and forth between competing solutions to our most pressing problems -- giving everyone reform whiplash. In Holistic Leadership, Thriving Schools , Jane Kise pinpoints both the cause of these pendulum swings and the ultimate solution -- we must recognize these tensions as polarities to manage, rather than problems to be fixed. Her both-and perspective will help school and district leaders see the wisdom in maintaining healthy tensions, especially on key issues that tend to pit teachers against administrators. Highly recommended." -- Justin Baeder , author of Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership Jane A. G. Kise, EdD, is the author of more than 25 books and an organizational consultant with extensive experience in leadership development and executive coaching, instructional coaching, and differentiated instruction. Dr. Kise is considered a worldwide expert in Jungian type and its impact on leadership and education. She works with schools and businesses, facilitating the creation of environments where everyone -- leaders, teachers, and students -- can flourish. Dr. Kise trains educators aro