GenX School Leaders Changing and Challenging the Future of School Leadership

GenX School Leaders sheds light on the careers, lives, leadership, motivation and aspirations of a new generation of education leaders. In many large urban centers, GenX leaders are stepping into senior school leadership roles in greater numbers---having a potentially profound impact on the next three decades of educational practice and school reform in cities around the globe. Karen Edge underscores the importance of understanding this shift in generational influence, by offering and in-depth, exciting and thought-provoking analysis of the five big issues facing GenX school leaders, as well as suggestions for concrete policy and practice strategies related to their recruitment, development, and retention.

Chapter 1: Shifting landscape of urban educational leadership and the rise of GenerationX leaders Chapter 2: Career trajectories: Early leadership, shoulder-tapping, job-hopping, and time in Chapter 3: GenX leadership: Priorities, strategies, challenges and school improvement Chapter 4: Future aspirations: What do GenX leaders want to be when they grow up Chapter 5: Recruiting GenX leaders: Early leadership, shoulder-tapping, and role models Chapter 6: Developing GenX leaders: Fast-paced, people-focused, bespoke, and multi-modal Chapter 7: Leading GenX style: Capacity-building, talent-spotting, and collaborating Chapter 8: Retaining GenX Leaders: Work/life balance, finding challenge, and future aspiration Chapter 9: Conclusions: What next, GenX?

Karen Edge is Reader in Educational Leadership, London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education.