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Big Wins, Small Steps: How to Lead For and With Creativity
Ronald A. Beghetto
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Description for Big Wins, Small Steps: How to Lead For and With Creativity
Paperback. This book addresses the key challenges facing instructional leaders interested in fostering creativity in schools and classrooms. It provides educators with practical and actionable guidelines for how to take small-steps toward improving existing teaching, learning, and leadership practices. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 231 x 11. Weight in Grams: 330.
This book is loaded with practical, implementation strategies providing a framework for infusing creativity into schools by making slight adjustments to existing practices. Practical examples are incorporated throughout the book to clarify how readers can apply key concepts and principles to their own practice. There are vignettes, case studies, applied examples, and concrete recommendations to bring concepts to life and illustrate how the ideas and principles can be applied in the professional work of teachers and instructional leaders.
This book is loaded with practical, implementation strategies providing a framework for infusing creativity into schools by making slight adjustments to existing practices. Practical examples are incorporated throughout the book to clarify how readers can apply key concepts and principles to their own practice. There are vignettes, case studies, applied examples, and concrete recommendations to bring concepts to life and illustrate how the ideas and principles can be applied in the professional work of teachers and instructional leaders.
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9781483385464
SKU
V9781483385464
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About Ronald A. Beghetto
Dr. Ronald A. Beghetto is an international expert on creativity in educational settings. He serves as Professor of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He is also Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Creative Behavior and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Div. 10, APA). Dr. Beghetto has published numerous books, articles, and scholarly book chapters on creative and innovative approaches to teaching, learning, and leadership in schools and classrooms. He speaks around the world on issues related to helping teachers and instructional leaders develop new and transformative possibilities for classroom teaching, learning, and leadership in K-12 and higher education settings. Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, Dr. Beghetto served as the College of Education's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. Dr. Beghetto earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Indiana University (with an emphasis in Learning, Cognition and Instruction).
Reviews for Big Wins, Small Steps: How to Lead For and With Creativity
Creativity is a process. It is an intrinsic skill
the key skill needed to negotiate a complex world. Big Wins, Small Steps invites educators to teach creativity by first practicing deliberate creativity. This practical guide will cultivate your creativity one small step at a time.
Beth Miller, Executive Director At a time when creativity has become the holy-grail in education, Beghetto presents an authoritative, accessible, and unpretentious pathway toward creative leadership and leadership for creativity. Insightful, practical, and based on solid research, not popular myth.
Yong Zhao, Author I suggest that all school leaders consider this book as Ron Beghetto's engaging work on creativity has profound implications for schools, and for the staff and students within them.
Larry Rosenstock, CEO Big Wins, Small Steps gives Principals, Teachers, & Instructional Leaders a framework to reference when looking out how to increase the creative spirit in our schools, and what steps we can do to support our students.
Kristopher Kwiatek, Principal In a world in which change comes at alarmingly faster rates each year (or so it would seem), it is refreshing to have a source that encourages us to take small steps within the context of our current efforts in instructional leadership which will lead to greater gains. This book is a great companion for any educational leader who wishes to model creative leadership within their building.
Rich Hall, Director of Elementary Education
the key skill needed to negotiate a complex world. Big Wins, Small Steps invites educators to teach creativity by first practicing deliberate creativity. This practical guide will cultivate your creativity one small step at a time.
Beth Miller, Executive Director At a time when creativity has become the holy-grail in education, Beghetto presents an authoritative, accessible, and unpretentious pathway toward creative leadership and leadership for creativity. Insightful, practical, and based on solid research, not popular myth.
Yong Zhao, Author I suggest that all school leaders consider this book as Ron Beghetto's engaging work on creativity has profound implications for schools, and for the staff and students within them.
Larry Rosenstock, CEO Big Wins, Small Steps gives Principals, Teachers, & Instructional Leaders a framework to reference when looking out how to increase the creative spirit in our schools, and what steps we can do to support our students.
Kristopher Kwiatek, Principal In a world in which change comes at alarmingly faster rates each year (or so it would seem), it is refreshing to have a source that encourages us to take small steps within the context of our current efforts in instructional leadership which will lead to greater gains. This book is a great companion for any educational leader who wishes to model creative leadership within their building.
Rich Hall, Director of Elementary Education