The Courage to Grow: Leading with Intentionality shows educational leaders how to design and carry out a leadership professional development plan. It is a guide that allows leaders to construct their own learning to measure knowledge, assess growth, and improve performance. This training manual is for the teacher leader, beginning principal, practicing principal, assistant principal, department chair, district office administrator, aspiring leadership candidate, and college preparation program professor. Chapters begin with a section called Learning with Intentionality, as defined as an intense energy or desire to grow exponentially, followed by a personal application of Caring with Intentionality. Chapters 2 7 include a leadership self-assessment utilizing the ISLLC Standards and conclude with growth activities. Depending on their leadership roles, the readers can select activities best suited to grow performance from present realities to ideal conditions for learning. The reader is then encouraged to design a personal Action Plan that takes into account knowledge from each chapter, strategies for growing performance with intentionality, and self-assessment results. Finally, each chapter includes websites, resources, and activities to improve leadership.

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The authors have hit a home run with this book. I love it. They clearly have put a great deal of thoughtful work and research into this book.The book is well-written and clearly organized. It covers a comprehensive array of topics and offers specific suggestions for identified leaders e.g. the district leader, educational professor and so on. I am going to try several of the activities beginning with the cultural scavenger hunt as school culture is an upcoming topic in my class.I appreciate having suggestions I can implement in my university classes. They have great suggestions for activities. The engaged learner strategies are immediately useful in my classroom. They modeled engaged learning in writing this book as well providing activities. Well done!--Derrington, Mary Lynne