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What themes are woven through all five of these interviews? (The quotes at the beginning of each case may provide a useful starting point.)
Are there specific themes that are easy for you to relate to? If so, which ones, and why?
Are there specific themes that are more difficult for you to relate to? If so, which ones, and why?
What are the implications of these themes for your own approach to leadership?
Their reactions to engaging in a discussion in which everyone speaks until consensus is reached.
The extent to which they are likely to follow this approach before making a decision as a teacher or school leader, and the reasons why or why not.
After the five interviews have been discussed as an integrated piece, participants are encouraged to explore the interviews individually, with the intent of discussing the implications of each author’s message for their own leadership philosophy.
Ask readers to put themselves in the position of the people whose community they’ve been hired to lead. How would they go about getting ideas/input from community members that is not just a regurgitation of all that they’ve been socialized to believe?
What does it mean to “think horizontally, not vertically?” What are the implications for you as a school leader?
