Brad R. Gustafson - Renegade Leadership: Creating Innovative Schools for Digital-Age Students

It is important that we start to think differently about leadership. Renegade Leadership is so crucial to the work that we do in education. If we do change right, schools can be a place where we are not just trying to catch up to the innovation around us, but we are leading it for the entire world. Think about it... why cant schools be the place that other organizations look to for innovation?

George Couros

Innovative Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Consultant

Author of The Innovators Mindset

Renegade Leadership is a gold mine of inspiring stories, practical ideas, and authentic examples of school transformation. Its a book that all educators should read, as we can all be leaders in improving schools no matter what our title or position.

Jennie Magiera

Author of Courageous Edventures: Navigating Obstacles to Discover Classroom Innovation

Be prepared to be inspired! Im a huge fan of Brad Gustafson because of the energy and passion he puts into his leadership. In Renegade Leadership: Creating Innovative Schools for Digital-Age Students, readers will feel that energy and passion in each and every page. Gustafson offers a step-by-step how-to guide for school leaders. Read, learn, and innovate!

Peter DeWitt

Author and Consultant

Renegade Leadership demonstrates what student-centered schools look like in the digital age. When we get relationships and pedagogy right, we can transform the very nature of learning. The vulnerability of Brad Gustafsons open sharing, combined with his practical advice, make this an incredible classroom resource. This is a book our students desperately need us all to read.

Erin Klein

Scholastic Top Teacher and Michigan Teacher of the Year

WOW! Renegade Leadership is loaded with great ideas that any educator could adapt in their own space. I particularly loved the concrete examples of innovation happening in Brads school, from the drone challenges and community service group to the live-streaming of events so students with sensory issues can join from their classrooms. This book offers a glimpse into the future of best practice. The pedagogy is presented by a practitioner who understands the importance of purpose and higher-level learning. I am so inspired by this text and cannot wait to try some of the ideas in our own district. This is a must-read for all educators and especially for educational leaders!

Tony Sinanis

Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction and Author

In Renegade Leadership, Dr. Brad Gustafson provides invigorating, concrete examples of strategic thinking and skills for educational leaders to fill the vacuum that exists in many educational settings. Gustafson asserts that leadership and change in education are irrevocably intertwined. Renegade Leadership is there for everyone to partakeyou just have to decide to commit.

Jon Corippo

Director of Academic Innovation, CUE

Dr. Brad Gustafsons compendium of workable ideas will provide school leaders with guidance and the best PD they will have had for a long time. Readers will be moved by his contagious enthusiasm as he shares the great ideas that worked in his school.

Neil MacNeill

Head Master, Ellenbrook Independent Primary School, Australia

A great combination of discussion on pedagogy, professional learning, digital-age instructional leadership, culture, and relationshipsthis book provides so many opportunities for reflection as well as turnkey strategies that will impact the cultures of our schools. The power of the instructional leader is captured in inspiring ways; I found myself wanting to put this in the hands of all my principals for immediate use in their buildings.

Rich Hall

Director of Elementary Education Henrico County Public Schools, VA

The concept of renegade leadership is an idea whose time has come in an age of educational volatility and insecurity.

John Robinson

High School Principal, Newton-Conover City Schools, NC

Engaging, sincere. Creative ideas are presented within every chapter as well as rich possibilities for innovating student and staff learning.... This text contains content with the potency of a time machine many school leaders dream of having: take me to relevant, simple yet profound ideas to bring instruction and curriculum at my school into the new realm of learning to prepare students for their world.

Virginia E. Kelsen

Executive Director, College and Careers

Chaffey Joint Union High School District, Canada

Renegade Leadership has the most comprehensive companion website Ive seen. It offers flipped videos, community forum components, and diverse opportunities to extend educators learning as far as they choose. The book and website together provide extensive and intensive personalized professional development that readers will want to dive into over and over again.

Jason Bretzmann

Teacher and Author of Flipping 2.0 and Personalized PD

This book is dedicated to my wife, Deb, and our children, Elise, Hope, and Finn. May your love be limitless, your curiosity insatiable, and your schools spaces that reflect the endless possibilities of a connected world.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gustafson, Brad, author. | Couros, George, writer of foreword.

Title: Renegade leadership: creating innovative schools for digital-age students/Brad Gustafson; foreword by George Couros.

Description: Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin, a SAGE Company, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.