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What is Leadership? Life Lessons from the Pebble
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by Marianne O'Donnell, Marianne O'Donnell (Illustrator)
Marianne O'Donnell
What is Leadership? Life Lessons from the Pebble
44
by Marianne O'Donnell, Marianne O'Donnell (Illustrator)
Marianne O'Donnell
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Overview
Leadership is a touchpoint topic for all humans of all ages. This fictional story showcases that it can only take one to make a change for the good and a leader can be in the heart of everyone no matter your role in education or in the workplace. True leadership is unforgettable. It can be found in small mindful moments. It is the drive to give your best self and to embrace and care for others with an open heart. Professional leadership demonstrates greatness that is authentic and a constant in daily life.
In this story, the large plateau envisions itself as the one in charge of all, from the boulders to the granulars. The plateau sees leadership from a top-down, transactionary perspective. The plateau has a narrow lens of being in charge and making all the decisions. The pebble on the other hand, is a transformational leader, who engages the other metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks with empathy, a growth mindset, and self-worth as they journey through and along the riverbed.
This book is a mentor text for a current professional leader and one who is an aspiring leader. It is also providing a threaded connection for the non-fiction topic about rocks and their classifications for high interest reading and inquiry about this topic. It can be a good addition to a TC Library for learning progressions in the story arc of reading, story schema, main idea, and deep reading for revised thinking as a reader through essential questions and prompts embedded in the book.
In this story, the large plateau envisions itself as the one in charge of all, from the boulders to the granulars. The plateau sees leadership from a top-down, transactionary perspective. The plateau has a narrow lens of being in charge and making all the decisions. The pebble on the other hand, is a transformational leader, who engages the other metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks with empathy, a growth mindset, and self-worth as they journey through and along the riverbed.
This book is a mentor text for a current professional leader and one who is an aspiring leader. It is also providing a threaded connection for the non-fiction topic about rocks and their classifications for high interest reading and inquiry about this topic. It can be a good addition to a TC Library for learning progressions in the story arc of reading, story schema, main idea, and deep reading for revised thinking as a reader through essential questions and prompts embedded in the book.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798986500706 |
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| Publisher: | Self |
| Publication date: | 04/28/2023 |
| Pages: | 44 |
| Sales rank: | 418,927 |
| Product dimensions: | 11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d) |
| Age Range: | 9 - 12 Years |
About the Author
Ms. Marianne O’Donnell is a special education teacher and leader who provides creative and functional guidance to students of all ages. For over 37 years, Ms. O’Donnell cherished her role as Special Education Teacher in Manhasset Public School District. During this tenure, she also had lead roles in facilitating new curriculum-based programs. She became a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Expertise in Teaching and Learning and earned her National Board Certification, offered by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Her creativity and passion for teaching continues in her current role as a professor at Molloy College Continuing Education Department in the MOST Program, Molloy Opportunity for Successful Transition. It is a journey of career growth and independence for adults with multiple disabilities. Ms. O’Donnell is successful in raising students’ social and academic performance.
Ms. O’Donnell believes that her personal and professional journey nurtured her role as leader, collaborator, and motivator for students to reach their potential. Using a constructivist approach, when working with students with multiple disabilities, continues to be very fulfilling. Her participation in ongoing committees, writing curriculum, and designing programs continues to provide students with success opportunities.
Ms. O’Donnell holds a Bachelor of Science in Education with a dual major to teach grades N-12, from C.W. Post, a Master of Science in Special Education with a Computer Education Certificate K-12 from New York University, and doctoral level coursework in leadership.
Ms. O’Donnell credits her remarkable childhood for her love of story, critical thinking, and creativity. She enjoyed the freedom to receive the world through its beauty in people, places, and diversity, which cultivated her appreciation of learning and education. Ms. O’Donnell fondly remembers being a part of her community church fairs, holding afterschool jobs in local shops, parading on the dunes and beach grasses along the seascapes of Ponquogue Beach, picnicking in vast fields of milkweeds that ebbed the bay canal, and those countless bike rides on well-trodden paths of leaves among wild blueberry bushes in the solitude of the local East Quogue Wildlife Sanctuary and Sears Bellows Pond. Ms. O’Donnell is a teacher leader and learner.
Her creativity and passion for teaching continues in her current role as a professor at Molloy College Continuing Education Department in the MOST Program, Molloy Opportunity for Successful Transition. It is a journey of career growth and independence for adults with multiple disabilities. Ms. O’Donnell is successful in raising students’ social and academic performance.
Ms. O’Donnell believes that her personal and professional journey nurtured her role as leader, collaborator, and motivator for students to reach their potential. Using a constructivist approach, when working with students with multiple disabilities, continues to be very fulfilling. Her participation in ongoing committees, writing curriculum, and designing programs continues to provide students with success opportunities.
Ms. O’Donnell holds a Bachelor of Science in Education with a dual major to teach grades N-12, from C.W. Post, a Master of Science in Special Education with a Computer Education Certificate K-12 from New York University, and doctoral level coursework in leadership.
Ms. O’Donnell credits her remarkable childhood for her love of story, critical thinking, and creativity. She enjoyed the freedom to receive the world through its beauty in people, places, and diversity, which cultivated her appreciation of learning and education. Ms. O’Donnell fondly remembers being a part of her community church fairs, holding afterschool jobs in local shops, parading on the dunes and beach grasses along the seascapes of Ponquogue Beach, picnicking in vast fields of milkweeds that ebbed the bay canal, and those countless bike rides on well-trodden paths of leaves among wild blueberry bushes in the solitude of the local East Quogue Wildlife Sanctuary and Sears Bellows Pond. Ms. O’Donnell is a teacher leader and learner.
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