Principals, superintendents, teacher leaders, and other school leaders experience considerable stress in this day of accountability and high visibility. This book address that stress level and helps school leaders learn the why, what, and how of mindfulness practice. It also helps to show how to reduce stress through mindfulness, demonstrates how mindfulness is related with effective leadership practice, and reinforces the qualities that equate with leadership legacy.

By Caryn Wells

Guide for reading this book
Survey
Preface
Introduction

PART I: The Art of Mindfulness for Leaders

Chapter one: Mindfulness for Leaders
Chapter two: Understanding Educational Leadership
Chapter three: Problems of Leadership

PART II: Practicing Mindfulness for Leaders
Chapter four: Turning Inward with Stillness
Chapter five: The Challenges of Being Fully Present
Chapter six: Mindfulness Constructs
Chapter seven- Being Instead of Doing- the Life of a Mindful Leader

PART III: Possibilities of Mindfulness for Leaders

Chapter eight- Making Time, Not Finding Time

Appendix- Sample Mindfulness Practice
Resources
References
Index
About the Author