Brian Creasman, Ed.D., is currently superintendent of Fleming County Schools in Kentucky. He has served as an assistant superintendent, a high school and middle school principal and assistant principal, and an instructional technologist and classroom teacher. He is the co-author of The Leader Within: Understanding and Empowering Teacher Leaders and Growing Leaders Within: A Process toward Teacher Leadership. Brian can be reached atbriankcreasman@gmail.com. He can also be found on Twitter at @FCSSuper. Jesse Bacon is currently the principal of Simon Middle School in Fleming County, Kentucky and is working toward an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. Jesse has participated in numerous leadership programs including the Leadership Institute for School Principals through the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), the National Institute for School Leaders (NISL) Executive Development Program, as well as the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) Aspiring Superintendents Academy. He has also presented at numerous conferences on school leadership and is an active participant on Advanc-ED school and district accreditation teams. You can find him on twitter at @Jesse_Bacon. David Franklin, Ed.D., is a Professor of Education for National University and an educational consultant for schools across the country. He has served as a primary and secondary principal as well as a classroom teacher. He has published articles in the The New York Academy of Public Education Professional Journal as well as in publications in India and The Middle East. His articles published on the website The Principal's Desk have been downloaded over 100,000 times by educator across the world. He can be reached atdavid@theprincipalsdesk.organd on Twitter at @sfprincipal.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Setting the Stage
Chapter 1: Vision: Finding Your School's Identity
Chapter 2: Journey: Preparing for an Epic Blastoff
Chapter 3: Buy-In: Strengthening Opportunities for Success through
Engagement
Chapter 4: Empowerment: Increasing Social Capital through Collaboration
Chapter 5: Change: Creating A School Students Need and Want
Chapter 6: Capacity: Building Structures for New Forms of Leadership
Chapter 7: Execution: Implementing the Strategy
Chapter 8: Sustainability: Going Beyond Tomorow
Conclusion
Afterword
Bibliography
About the Authors
