Deepen your connections with students, staff, and your larger community.
Behind every thriving school or district are deeply interconnected teams that consistently engage in a reciprocal transfer of learning. Leading With Intention aims to make this process visible by helping leaders and teachers understand how their thinking impacts their decision-making and the overall well-being of their learning communities. Through five highly practical chapters, authors DeWitt and Nelson explore self-awareness, nurturing human interconnectedness, collective inquiry, establishing a learning network, and crafting a personal learning environment.
Filled with research, stories, and places to process information, this timely book is focused on how educators think, the choices they make, and how they develop deeper academic and social-emotional connections. Other features include:
- Success criteria to help readers identify personal goals
- Suggested activities to apply knowledge
- Reflection sheets with guiding questions
- In-depth examples to illustrate content
School-leaders will come away with a deeper understanding of the importance of self-awareness in leadership and the pedagogical knowledge required to focus initiatives on student learning. Leading with Intention helps education leaders go from being merely on task to deeply engaged and reconnected with why they entered the education profession in the first place.
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Leading With Intention delves into a complex topic, but makes it a "tight" read. Every chapter has charts, focused checklists, and reflective tools. Systemness is always helped by "interaction" effects of core factors. This book will help you focus and integrate through self-awareness and self-efficacy, connection and inquiry, and intentional professional learning that generates impact. -- Michael Fullan Leading With Intention provides valuable insights that encourage "leaning in rather than leaning away" from our collective responsibility for student learning. DeWitt and Nelson have crafted a powerful guide inviting readers to harness thoughtful and genuine relationships to cultivate a legacy of learning. -- Kimberly M. Fry Education is in a tough spot. The only sustainable way out is through intentional leadership and connection. Peter M. DeWitt and Michael Nelson provide the roadmap here in Leading With Intention. -- Danny Bauer Leading With Intention is an excellent resource for educational leaders aiming to deepen their impact on student learning and build stronger connections within their school community. Through a skillful blend of practical insights, research, and personal stories, authors Peter M. DeWitt and Michael Nelson articulate a vision for leadership that underscores the importance of self-awareness and human interconnectedness, providing a foundation for effective decision-making. -- Valerie Page Truesdale Through a skillful blend of practical insights, research, and personal stories, DeWitt and Nelson articulate a vision for leadership that underscores the importance of self-awareness and human interconnectedness. -- G. Joel Aune * North Bend, WA * Each chapter has been intentionally designed for the reader to think deeply about their leadership and transfer their learning into their context. I wish I knew half of what is covered in this book when thinking about becoming a school leader. -- Helen Butler * Melbourne, Australia * DeWitt and Nelson clearly describe the foundational importance of self-awareness and interconnectedness -- but also how to leverage those strengths to achieve meaningful school improvement. From collective inquiry to creating learning networks, this book provides opportunities for both reflection and action. -- Michael Butler * New Brunswick, Canada * DeWitt and Nelson take the readers on a leadership journey through compelling and powerful stories that will connect and guide leaders in their professional practices. The authors share evidence-based practical strategies that will help leaders build knowledge related to the importance of interconnectedness and self-awareness. DeWitt and Nelson provide a space for the leaders to intentionally engage in deep reflection by connecting these strategies with their own practices and their own stories. This book will empower the leaders in growing their professional practices to lead with intention. -- Sylvie Arseneau * New-Brunswick, Canada *
Foreword by John Hattie
Glossary of Terms
Chapter 1 Self-awareness
Chapter 2: Human Interconnectedness
Chapter 3: Collective Inquiry
Chapter 4: Engaging in Intentional Professional Learning to Impact Student Learning
Chapter 5: Creating Your Own Learning Environment
Afterword by Shelley Harwayne
Peter DeWitt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective, and approaches everything with a learners mindset. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For over 12 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books.
DeWitts professional learning relationships are a monthly hybrid approach that includes both coaching and the facilitating workshops on instructional leadership and collective efficacy. His work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K.
Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week with Michael Nelson and they host Corwins Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast. In 2020 DeWitt co-created Education Weeks A Seat At the Table where he moderates conversations with experts around the topics of race, gender, research, trauma and many other educational topics.
Peter is the author, co-author or contributor of numerous books and his articles have appeared in educational research journals at the state, national and international level. His books have been translated into numerous languages.
There is no more noble profession than that of an educator was what Michael Nelsons mom said almost every day while he was growing up. For almost 40 years, Michael has been an educator. His mom would be pleased.
Even though Michael still considers teacher as his primary title, he has served in roles of principal, district instructional leader, superintendent, assistant executive director developing professional development for the state of Washington, and currently as the Thought Partner for the Instructional Leadership Collective.
Michael has received many state and national awards during his time as a principal and superintendent. As principal, his school received the National Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education. As a superintendent, he was named Washington states 2019 Superintendent of the Year. During his tenure as superintendent, Michael was elected President of the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA) by his peers.
Michael Nelson co-facilitates coaching, keynotes, and workshops with Peter DeWitt. Their first book Leading with Intention was released in May 2024.
