Breaking Away from the Corporate Model: Even More Lessons from Principal to Principal

by Rocky Wallace

Overview

Breaking Away from the Corporate Model integrates the core values of servant leadership into an effective formula for organizational health and school transformation. Providing strategies for transformation, Rocky Wallace follows a high school principal, John, as he extends his servant leadership model to a regional cohort of principals. The rich discussions and networking that result provides critical support for these school shepherds as they learn to more effectively serve their school communities. This book emphasizes the need to understand how the corporate mentality and impersonal business of school can easily get in the way of the heart of teaching and learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607094326
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	10/16/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rocky Wallace has served as the principal of a U.S. Blue Ribbon School, leadership consultant to principals for the Kentucky Department of Education, and currently teaches instructional leadership classes for Morehead State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Simpler Time
Chapter 2 Black Swan
Chapter 3 Paradigm Shift
Chapter 4 Principal's Cohort
Chapter 5 Opening Day
Chapter 6 Learning to Read
Chapter 7 Lifeline
Chapter 8 "My Kid Can't Do Math"
Chapter 9 Life Skills
Chapter 10 They're Still Kids!
Chapter 11 Leadership Team
Chapter 12 The Road that Leads Home
Chapter 13 Facing the Enemy
Chapter 14 The Peril of Delay Is Costly
Chapter 15 Loss of a Friend
Chapter 16 The Writer
Chapter 17 Learning at Home
Chapter 18 Advisor/Advisee
Chapter 19 A Child's Goodbye
Chapter 20 Kids Know, But Do We Listen?
Chapter 21 Addressing the Unfriendly Spirit
Chapter 22 Talent and Potential vs. Flaws and Failure
Chapter 23 Principles of Servant Leadership
Chapter 24 Shannon's Tribute
Chapter 25 Closing Thoughts: Unchained (The Space Between)

Editorial Reviews

Education operates in an ever-changing world. Breaking Away from the Corporate Model is a must-read for everyone in our profession. Wallace is a gifted writer and educator who masterfully guides us down new paths of thinking and into the twenty-first century. His ideas flow with intelligence and good common sense.

Norma Meek

Rocky Wallace makes a valuable contribution to the study of leadership in his Principal to Principal series. And, he goes beyond that. His narrative teaching style gently but surely connects theory to practice in a way that celebrates the context of principals’ work. Read it for the compelling storyline and learn leadership along the way!

Mike Rutherford

Leading from the heart is something that Rocky Wallace has experienced firsthand. Unchained is a reflection of the author and his servant leadership. Only those who have walked in Principal Williamson’s shoes could write such an insightful story. This book puts leadership in perspective and focuses on what really matters: service, relationships and the vision of what can be.

Debbie Daniels

A deeply personal voyage into the topic of servant leadership, with a laser focus on the authentic aspects of the principalship and the communal dimensions of schooling.

Joseph Murphy

In an age of high-stakes assessment, even the best-intentioned school leaders can get so caught up in narrow measurement goals that they forget the larger goals of American schooling-to prepare young people to be good citizens, to be economically self-sufficient, and ultimately to become self-actualized human beings. Rocky Wallace knows these problems firsthand from his work as a school principal, consultant, and regional school leader. In this work, Wallace invites practitioners to reflect upon both the immediate day-to-day realities of their work and the greater vision that inspires us to become educators in the first place. His thinking brings the bureaucratic routines of daily school life together with the existential insights of the likes of Parker Palmer. His is a critical message for school leaders everywhere, delivered in an exceptionally accessible package.

Wayne Willis