Lessons from the Bard: What Shakespeare Can Teach Us about School District Leadership

by Marie Wiles

Overview

This book explores the school and district leadership lessons that can be gleaned from five of Shakespeare's most well-known and frequently taught plays: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. Each chapter focuses on one of the five plays and the leadership themes that can inform the work done by principals, superintendents and other school leaders. Those themes include everything from understanding how the adolescent brain works, to managing money and resources, to leading with a clear sense of purpose.This book does not require anyone to be a Shakespeare scholar. It simply asks readers to become reacquainted with some timeless stories, memorable characters, and remarkable feats that can be viewed as parallels to those that school leaders perform each and every day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475870015
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	353 KB

About the Author

Marie T. Wiles is currently the superintendent of schools in the Guilderland Central School District in New York. She began her 35-year career in education as an English teacher.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Romeo and Juliet
Chapter Two: Macbeth
Chapter Three: The Merchant of Venice
Chapter Four: Julius Caesar
Chapter Five: Hamlet
Conclusion
Acknowledgments