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Lead from Where You Are: Building Intention, Connection and Direction in Our Schools Kindle Edition
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Level Up Your Leadership with Intention, Connection, and Direction
School communities are full of people who have both the ability and desire to lead. Some lead without knowing it. Most lead without the recognition they deserve. Whether you lead in a classroom, department, building, or district, chances are you know how challenging it can be to identify and develop other strong leaders, and to grow the leadership capacity of your organization as a whole. But ensuring that the leaders around you know their worth, helping them cultivate connections, and growing their confidence can help your whole team move forward together, helping the organization and the people within it to thrive.
Lead from Where You Are offers a down-to-earth, implementable approach to rethinking how we build leadership and community in schools. Dr. Joe Sanfelippo, a veteran principal and superintendent, argues that our focus must be on growing leadership potential all across the community, from students to teachers to staff. We can do this by reflecting on how we build a sense of intention together, how we connect with each other, and how we direct those we lead with compassion and affirmation. Sanfelippo’s frank discussion of the highs and lows of leadership will help new principals and superintendents feel prepared, while also providing useful methods and sound counsel.- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJan. 21 2022
- File size824 KB
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- ASIN : B09QZ8J3XN
- Publisher : Impress (Jan. 21 2022)
- Language : English
- File size : 824 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 173 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #421,548 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Dr. Joe Sanfelippo is the Superintendent of the Fall Creek School District in Fall Creek, WI...home of the Fall Creek Crickets. The Fall Creek School District was named an Innovative District in 2016 and 2017 by the International Center for Leadership in Education. Joe holds a BA in Elementary and Early Childhood Education, an MS in Educational Psychology, an MS in Educational Leadership, and a Ph.D. in Leadership, Learning, and Service. Joe co-authored The Power of Branding: Telling Your School’s Story, Principal Professional Development: Leading Learning in a Digital Age, and Hacking Leadership: 10 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Learning That Teachers, Students, and Parents Love. He was selected as 1 of 117 Future Ready Superintendents in 2014 and 1 of 50 Superintendents as a Personalized Learning Leader by the US Department of Education in 2016. Education Dive named Joe 1 of 5 K-12 Administrators to watch in 2018 and their National Superintendent of the Year in 2019.
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This book cements the framework, strategies, and actions of leadership with stories and examples to illustrate the why, when, and how they work. What I really appreciate about this book is the way Dr. Sanfelippo shares his failures so that we may learn from them. It's easy to share success stories, but sharing the missteps and challenges provides even deeper learning opportunities and helps the rest of us to avoid similar pitfalls as leaders or build empathy, compassion, and understanding for those in the role. His willingness to examine his own actions and admit his mistakes is the ultimate modeling of the messiness of leadership.
Although the book is written from his lens, it is not an "all about me" book. The stories and moments he shares weave a bigger picture of what it means to be a part of a learning community, building awareness of how we can work together to encourage everyone to lead from any title, any role. Every school community will benefit from the power of its members feeling empowered to lead from where they are.


Thomas C. Murray
Director of Innovation, Future Ready SchoolsⓇ
Best-Selling Author of Personal & Authentic & Learning Transformed
Washington, D.C.


-Lainie Rowell, lead author of Evolving Learner and international education consultant