A School Leader's Guide to Reclaiming Purpose

In A School Leader's Guide to Reclaiming Purpose, Frederick Buskey lays out a clear and compelling roadmap to help school leaders focus more time on supporting and growing their people and less time putting out fires. This book is ideal for leaders who work hard all week but often wonder if they have accomplished anything meaningful and enduring. The book takes readers on a journey through six specific stages, each with simple but powerful frameworks and suggested challenges, for...
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In A School Leader's Guide to Reclaiming Purpose, Frederick Buskey lays out a clear and compelling roadmap to help school leaders focus more time on supporting and growing their people and less time putting out fires. This book is ideal for leaders who work hard all week but often wonder if they have accomplished anything meaningful and enduring. The book takes readers on a journey through six specific stages, each with simple but powerful frameworks and suggested challenges, for applying the book's lessons. Every page contains wisdom and every stage provides clear guidance on how to gain immediate value from the content and tools. This is a book that is beneficial when read, but life-changing when practiced. It is written in a way that is accessible and applicable for any school leader who is passionate about students, and wants to support and grow teachers.This guide helps reframe the challenges of instructional leadership by describing the gravitational pull of urgency, the barriers to escape, and, more importantly, the steps to breaking away from urgency to lead in a more impactful and purposeful way. Leaders will learn to operate from a place of priorities, to build systems and supports to focus everyone on the job of supporting teachers, and to leverage small chunks of time to achieve powerful results growing teachers. For any leader who has struggled with time management or felt trapped by the pull of urgency, A School Leader's Guide to Reclaiming Purpose promises and delivers a path forward, a path to reclaiming leaders' passion and purpose.