List Books » Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships for Communities and Schools
Authors: Hank Rubin (Editor), Mary Futrell
ISBN-13: 9781412965446, ISBN-10: 1412965446
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: 2nd Edition
Hank Rubin is president of the nonprofit Institute for Collaborative Leadership, former distinguished visiting scholar at George Mason University, and dean-in-residence at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. He was previously joint dean of education at The University of South Dakota and South Dakota State University.
With corporate, political, business, and nonprofit experience, Rubin is a nationally respected collaborative leader, educational spokesperson, and children’s advocate. Rubin’s work reflects the vision of one who sees the world through the eyes of a broad cross-section of those who influence the national, regional, and local partnerships needed to make sure that all children can succeed.
He has taught seventh- and eighth-grade students, run three nonprofit organizations and created several others, directed and taught in the Midwest's largest urban graduate school of public (government and nonprofit) administration, served as vice president for sales and marketing in an international manufacturing firm, served as associate vice president for institutional advancement in a large urban university, taught graduate students in education and business management, run for-and held-public office, and started and managed his own consulting firm before founding the nonprofit Institute for Collaborative Leadership.
Rubin was an early researcher and leader in the field of nonprofit leadership. He was co-convener of the Clarion Initiative (a series of symposia that began at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and produced a framework that has guided nonprofit trainers, educators, and researchers since the 1980s). With more than 20 publications on topics including school reform, educational goal setting, public ethics, philanthropy, and nonprofit management, Rubin is a respected consultant, speaker, and advocate for innovative and collaborative approaches to leadership, training, and public education. He served as Ohio's first associate superintendent for students, families, and communities and was a founding member of both the Ohio Learning First Alliance and the Chicago Panel on Public School Policy and Finance.
Rubin earned his PhD from Northwestern University and his MA and BA from the University of Chicago with early coursework at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Written to inspire and support educators in becoming transformative, collaborative leaders, this updated edition of a best-selling resource demonstrates how educators can use collaboration skills to help shape school culture and build and maintain strong schoolwide relationships that contribute meaningfully to students' learning.
Visionary Hank Rubin provides a broad overview of collaboration in education and lays the foundation for working with colleagues, establishing strong partnerships, and cooperating with students to achieve goals. Updated with the latest research and filled with practical examples, this resource examines the author's 14 phases of Collaboration's Life Cycle and helps educators
Understand the knowledge, skills, and personal characteristics necessary to foster successful collaboration
Nurture relationships between students and the institutions and individuals associated with learning
Build collaborative community relationships that support an instructional agenda
Incorporate the study of collaboration and related reflective activities into leadership practice
By applying these vital principles of collaboration to their work, educators will discover what a school of collaborative excellence is capable of achieving!
Foreword to the Second Edition Mary Futrell xi
Preface and Overview xiii
Who Is This Book for? xiv
Building Relationships for Children xvi
A Note to Grant Makers xvii
A Note on Writing a Book xviii
A Quick Guide for the Reader xix
Dear Reader... xix
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Author xxii
1 An Invitation to Collaborative Leadership 1
Cutting Stone 1
Working Definitions 1
2 Collaborative Leadership: A Continuing Mandate 4
In Our DNA 4
The Importance of Powerlessness 6
The Position of Mission 7
The Monitor's Dim Glow 8
3 Collaborative Leadership: If We Do It Right 10
Leveraging Leadership 10
Beyond Toolboxes 11
Collaboration and Competition 12
Collaboration and Creativity 12
Pushing String: Authenticity and Intentionality 13
So, Who Is a Collaborative Leader? 14
4 The Nature of Collaboration 16
Individuals and Representational Participation 16
Types and Tones of Collaborations 18
Itinerant Collaborations 18
Sustained Collaborations 19
Veracity and Tenacity 20
A Final Note 20
5 Most of Us Begin by Missing the Point: Why Education? 22
Democracy's Midwife 22
Supporting Education's Civic Purpose 24
More Than Memory Banks 25
Content and Collaboration 27
Answering a Call for Public Collaborations 28
6 The 4th R 30
Looking at Teachers as Collaborative Leaders 30
Teaching Collaboration for Teaching's Public Purpose 33
The Easy Case for Principals and Supreintendents as Collaborative Leaders 35
A Final Thought 37
PreK-20: The Essential Collaboration 38
7 Constructing Models 40
The How 40
It's All in Your Head! 40
Constellations-of-Relationships: Thinking Through Relationships41
Collaboration's Life Cycle 45
Phases and Steps of Collaboration's Life Cycle 47
Phase 1 Why Collaborate? 47
Phase 2 Outcomes? Decision Makers? 47
Phase 3 Research: Knowledge, Policy, Politics 48
Phase 4 Stakeholders? 48
Phase 5 Frame and Recruit 49
Phase 6 Leaders, Structure, Roles, and Rules 49
Phase 7 Develop an Action Plan 50
Phase 8 Begin With Successes 50
Phase 9 Build Bonds Between Partners 50
Phase 10 Celebrate Successes 51
Phase 11 Assess, Adjust, and Reinforce Bonds 51
Phase 12 Goal-Centered Accountability 51
Phase 13 Scaffold the Change 51
Phase 14 Revisit and Renew Mission 52
Final Note 52
8 The Dimensions of Collaborative Leadership 54
Of Sums and Parts 54
The Value of Clusters 56
The Personal Dimensions of Collaborative Leadership 56
Preparing to Lead 56
Strategic Thinking 56
Asset-Based Perspective 58
Professional Credibility 59
The Heart and Soul of Leadership 61
Integrity 61
Spirituality 62
People as Ends, Not Means 63
Commitment to Diversity 64
Charisma 65
Populating the Bus 67
Timing the Launch 67
Recruiting the Right Mix 68
Interpersonal Skills and Dispositions 70
Interpersonal Communication Skills 70
Consensus Building 71
Diplomacy 73
Understanding the Rudiments of Each Sector 74
Management Dimensions 76
Managing Information 76
Data-Driven Leadership 76
Marketing and Communications 77
Technological Savvy 78
Managing Groups 80
Psychosocial: Understanding People 80
Institutionalizing the Worry 81
Group Process 83
Resource Development 88
Management Skills 88
Managing Change: Continuous Improvement 90
Systems Thinking 90
Entrepreneurism 91
Clarity of Vision 96
9 Nine Nuggets 98
A Practitioner's Postscript 98
Nine Principles of Effective Collaborative Leadership 98
Tools and Provocations 101
Resource 1 Planning and Assessment: An Intentional Q&A 102
Resource 2 A New Conceptual Framework: A Tool for Teachers, Curriculum Developers, and Researchers 112
Resource 3 "Schools of Collaborative Excellence": A Model for School-Based Leaders 120
References 123
Index 125