Principles and possibilities to inform and inspire caring in your leadership practices!

The values and themes in this book will help you fulfill your school leadership practices with a renewed recognition of the human side of schooling. Written for leaders at all levels, this research-based collection of ideas, strategies, and examples focuses on caring as what's been missing from school improvement plans that produce academic success and socially and emotionally well-rounded students. In addition to insights and lessons about caring from educators and human service professions like nursing and ministry, readers will be introduced to themes of
· Caring in interpersonal relationships with students
· Cultivating schools as caring environments
· Fostering caring in families and communities

Mark A. Smylie is professor of education emeritus in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and visiting professor in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Before his work in higher education, Smylie was a high school social studies teacher. Smylie served as secretary-treasurer of the National Society for the Study of Education and as a director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in the American Education Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Journal of School Leadership, and Review of Research in Education. Smylie has worked with schools, school districts, and school administrator and teacher professional associations through joint projects, advising, and school leader development activities. He has served on advisory boards of numerous regional and national professional and policy organizations concerned with education generally and leadership in particular. Smylie's research focuses on school organization, leadership, and change.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction: Four Stories of Caring School Leadership
Ana
Giving and Taking the Chance
Seth
No One Graduates Alone
Chapter 1: Caring: The Heart of Caring School Leadership
A Case for Caring in Schools
What Do We Mean by Caring?
How Does Caring Work?
Cautionary Notes: Problems and Pitfalls of Caring
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 2: A Model of Caring School Leadership
Defining Caring School Leadership
A Model
Considerations for the Practice of Caring Leadership
Caring School Leadership and Educational Equity
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 3: Being Caring in Relationships with Students
Dynamics of Principal-Student Relationships
What Makes Student-Principal Relationships Caring?
Practices of Presence
Practices of Attentiveness and Inquiry
Interpersonal Communication With Students
Acting on Behalf of Students
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 4: Cultivating Schools as Caring Communities
The Meaning of Caring Community
Leadership as Cultivation
Approaches to Cultivating Caring and Community
Developing Capacity for Caring Community
Promoting Enabling Conditions
Engaging Parents and Caregivers
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 5: Fostering Caring in Families and Communities Beyond the School
Nature of the Work
Fostering Caring in Families
Fostering Caring in Communities
Insights From Community Organizing and Community Development
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Chapter 6: Developing Caring School Leadership
What Should Be Developed: A Review
Development Activities and Experiences
Learning From Experience
Avoiding the Problems and Pitfalls of Caring
Caring for Oneself
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
References
Index