This chapter advocates that building capacity for international leadership should be the goal of leadership educators in course-based experiences. It also recommends a model of global leadership that is consistent with this view and discusses an example of the model in action.

There is an increased need for leadership development in higher education around the world. Reported in this paper is an explorative higher education leadership development program developed from an international comparative perspective. This ongoing program is offered to Chinese university administrators at a Canadian university since 2012. This…

In this narrative analysis study, seven college students identifying with a disability(ies) detail their experiences with leadership roles and opportunities. Findings from this study reveal the importance of disabled representation in leadership, the ongoing negotiation of disability identity within constructed notions of leadership in college,…

When considering community impacts of outdoor education (OE), youth are community members, leaders, and experts who can and should be meaningfully involved in the design and evaluation of OE programs and research that impact them. Ensuring youth have agency in these processes can create opportunities for building community (Brennan, 2008), making…

This article introduces new perspectives, principles and recommendations for the successful development of teacher leadership. It draws from literature on teacher leadership, work redesign, and on-the-job leadership development to explore key insights and questions for teacher leadership development, and it presents a conceptual-theoretical model…

This article examines a school district's effort to create a unified culture of mathematical excellence through which everyone would know what high-quality instruction should look like and how they would shift their practices to those that aligned with their vision. This is accomplished through their Mathematics Teaching Practices Inventory…

Forming and developing a synergy of empowering actors is needed to create jobs, change the economy, and build a microlens, and institutional logic perspective. The synergy of interest actors is the synergistic relationship built by interest actors. Collective resource capabilities can address community problems and expand community opportunities,…

The objectives of this study included to study the appropriateness of indicators for selection in the developed model, to examine the fitness of the developed model, and to verify the factor loading value of major components, sub-components, and indicators, respectively. Sample included 2,359 secondary school principals under the jurisdiction of…

Our paper discusses the need for continued focus on ethical leadership and the importance and benefits of ethical leadership development. We propose integrating ethical leadership development, that uses cognitive development theory, into the Center for Creative Leadership's Assess, Challenge, and Support (ACS) leader development model to help…

This paper describes a collaborative curriculum project integrating 4 leadership programs at three academic levels. What emerged from this effort was a theoretical model understood as a boundary object that allows our diverse perspectives a space within which we can communicate, collaborate, and learn from each other.

Several models of leadership outline theories on successful intervention such as "Observe, Interpret, and Intervene" within the Adaptive Leadership model (Heifetz, Grashow, & Linsky, 2009) or the "Five Practices" within Kouzes & Posner's (2012) work. However, during stressful moments of leadership practice, many models…

This practitioner guide introduces the leadership for liberation framework that includes cultural commitments, mindsets, and liberatory values and concepts. The values and concepts introduced in this guide originally emerged from a critique of the Social Change Model of Leadership and how it neglects to mention race, power, and oppression. The…

Purpose: Replicating and extending earlier research, this mixed-methods study inquired about the characteristics of effective school leadership networks and the contribution of such networks to the development of individual and collective leaders' professional capacities. Design: The study used path analytic techniques with survey data provided by…

This article discusses three models of command and staff colleges (CSC). Five university models, five United States Military models, and one police agency model are discussed. The 11 CSCs provide leadership development in various training and education programs all leading to the increased capabilities of leaders and potential leaders for public…

The founder of TOMS Shoes, Blake Mycoskie, and the late Apple cofounder and CEO, Steve Jobs, model the role of passion and purpose in leader developmental readiness.