Understanding+Leadership


 * October 9:**
 * Understanding Leadership in the Jewish ECE Setting**

§ What are the various definitions of leadership and ways people act as leaders?
 * FOCUSING QUESTIONS:**

§ How do leaders impact their organizations and the communities in which they are embedded?

§ Is leadership defined by role, task, trait, style?

§ How does leadership differ from management?

§ What are the insights from the Jewish tradition that help leaders deal with the challenges before them?

§ What are the specific leadership challenges faced by women, by those in early childhood, and by school directors?

§ How does the early childhood context constrain and empower the leadership of the ECE director?

o Chapter 1, **“Leadership – Defining the Elusive”** o Chapter 2, **“Leadership as a Way of Thinking,” pages 13-19**
 * READINGS****:**
 * [Book]** Bloom//, Leadership in Action//:

o Chapter 2, **“The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership”**
 * [Reader]** Kouzes, //Leadership Challenge, Workbook//

o Lynn, Michelle, **“Priest and Prophet: Two Models of Leadership”**
 * [Reader]** //Brit Kodesh: Readings and Exercises for Self-Study// //on the Relationship Between the// //Professional and Volunteer Leadership// //in Reform Congregations//.

o Mastrangelo, **“The Importance of Personal and Professional Leadership,” pages 435-442**
 * [Reader]** //The Leadership and Organization Development Journal,// Vol. 25, No. 5, 2004

=[Reader] Veijo Nivala & Eeva Hujala (eds.), //Leadership in Early Childhood Education Cross-Cultural Perspectives//= o Scrivens, Cushla**, “Constructions of Leadership: Does Gender Make a Difference? Perspectives from an English Speaking Country”**

From //Newsweek//'s Women and Leadership issue, October 15, 2007 (two articles that mirror our own discussions about leadership): http://www.newsweek.com/id/42471 and http://www.newsweek.com/id/42504/page/1 = =

And we discussed: