Rebecca Coda - Escaping the School Leaders Dunk Tank: How to Prevail When Others Want to See You Drown

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Escaping the School Leaders Dunk Tank tackles challenges that school leaders will face at some point in their careers. This book provides a unique and thorough analysis of types of adversarial conditions, and the powerful stories that the authors collected from school leaders across the nation will provide leaders a chance to reflect, plan, and think about how they might prevail in their roles.

This book doesnt just address the elephant in the room; it rides it out of the room! A very REAL look at school politics and typical adversarial conditions that leaders face along with practical tools for thriving in any school leadership role.

Im calling a home run right now! Bold, unconventional, and arguably the realest school leadership book you will ever read. Rebecca Coda and Rick Jetter definitely dont pull any punches. With riveting case studies that highlight the good, the bad, and the ugly Ive never read a more honest assessment of politics in education and how to rise above the perils to pursue excellence for kids. Escaping the School Leaders Dunk Tank is one of those rare books that you wont want to end.

Looking at the six years where I have been an administrator and the last five years as a principal, it does get lonely at the top. The feeling that someone is always criticizing your every move is palpable, and the isolation effect of the position breeds the feeling of a closed space. This book highlights many of the hard lessons I have learned about school leadership, especially in being a very young administrator. To put the leadership position into a focused context is a moment of relived experience in every word that is read, and any aspiring administrator would be best served to read this book over and over again. In fact, I would highly recommend this book to any school leader, seasoned or neophyte. Rick and Rebecca have come up with practical, yet meaningful, strategies to leverage this dream position to build better relationships, rise above all of the exigent factors that make the job nearly impossible, and have the feeling of success that came with first being named to the job return in spades!

We have all been dunked before! If you have ever even tried to be a leader in a school, then you know the feeling. This book will make you feel like you are not alone. It is a great, practical read for any educator in any system. A great collection of real life examples.

Rules are meant to be broken. Jetter and Coda share stunning vignettes uncovering educational politics; the candor shocking. A must-read for aspiring educational leaders.

To all of our friends and colleagues who have a hell of a time trying to lead others while their adversaries plot, pillage, and plunder.

I t required a little covert action, but the thrill of setting free the massive elephants at the carnival was worth the risk. We walked around back and saw their enclosure. To our surprise there was no lock on the cage, so we lifted the lever and called them all out. Thankfully, no one saw us when we released the elephants from their cages. Thats when things really got interesting. We each grabbed onto an elephant, climbed up their enormous bodies, and sat upon their backs. They tried to buck us off, like angry bulls, and even smacked us across the faces with their heavy trunks. But when we fed them peanuts, they calmed down and let us ride them around inside the carnival tent. What an awesome experience!