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List of Online Resources \\ Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech \\ Preface \\ Acknowledgments \\ About the Authors \\ PART I: HISTORICAL AND 21st CENTURY CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISIONING ONWARD \\ 1. The Art of Seeing \\ How Leaders of Learning Transition From Believing It to Seeing It \\ Visioning Onward: Preparing for Challenges \\ What Is the Role of Schools Today? \\ The Opportunity That Is Opening for Schools \\ Why Visioning? \\ The Powerful Impact of Visioning \\ Visioning—Permission to Thrive and Change \\ Some Additional Considerations—In the Long Term \\ Conclusions—Visions and Our Day-to-Day Reality \\ 2. Believe It to See It: Creating a Vision \\ Ancient Visions—Burning Cities and Prophecies \\ Visioning in Modern Times—Dewey to Today \\ Is Visioning Still Relevant in 2020? \\ Why Do We Encourage Schools to Embrace Visioning? \\ Visioning—One Secret of Uncommon Leadership \\ It Takes a Team \\ Community Building: How Much Involvement Do You Anticipate? \\ Factors to Consider for Visioning at Your School or District \\ How Do Visions Relate to a School’s Purpose? \\ Visioning and ESSA \\ Visioning in Schools—Opportunities Today to Recreate Education \\ Where Is Your School (Or District) Headed? \\ Conclusions—Visioning in a Time of Uncertainty and Implications for Schools \\ 3. 21st Century Concerns—Food for Thought \\ Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools \\ Do Visions Make a Difference? \\ Five Great Companies \\ Comparing Visions \\ Visions as Disruptions \\ Visions, Missions, and Successful Ventures \\ How Innovations Have Disrupted Our Lives \\ Visioning—Various Lenses \\ Holistic Understanding \\ Group Effort \\ Knowledge and Values \\ Visions That Incorporate Many Perspectives \\ Visioning Is Not Missioning \\ Visioning Onward for School Improvement \\ Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools \\ Conclusions—Collectively Visioning Outside the Box \\ PART II: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND STEPS TO VISIONING IN SCHOOLS \\ 4. Visioning: Steps 1–4 \\ Doing the Work \\ So How Will You Proceed With Visioning at Your School? \\ Some Prerequisites—Biding Time, Building Trust \\ An Example of Where Visions Might Take You—Green Schools \\ Visioning—Light-Years Beyond Ordinary (Path 1) \\ Another Need—Visioning to Handle a Crisis (Path 2) \\ Considerations for the Visioning Process \\ A Recommended Eight-Step Visioning Process \\ Step 1—Form a Vision Steering Team, and Develop a Visioning Process Blueprint \\ Before the Visioning Process Begins \\ Step 2—Identify Participants for the Visioning Process \\ Step 3—Develop the First Draft of Your Vision, and Imagine Your School the Way You Would Like It to Be \\ Step 4—Research Exemplars and Options \\ Conclusions—Borrowing From the Greats \\ Resources and Ideas to Support the How of Visioning \\ Iterative Visioning \\ 5. Visioning Case Study \\ The Opening of a New School—Upper Providence Elementary School (UPES) \\ Visioning Questions for UPES \\ Key Questions for Parents \\ Thirteen Years Later—Refreshing Our Vision \\ Staf-faculty Focus Group Questions \\ UPE 5 \\ Pro-Social Pledge \\ An Existing School With New Leadership at Spring City Elementary School \\ Spring City Staff Entry Plan Questions \\ Vision Questions for Spring City Staff \\ Conclusions—Collaboration Is Key \\ 6. Visioning Steps 5–8 \\ Steps 5–8 \\ Step 5—Refine Your Vision Using an Iterative Visioning Process \\ Step 6—Develop Mission and Goal Statements, and Determine How to Measure Progress \\ Mission Statements and the Strategic Planning Process \\ Goals \\ Measuring Progress \\ Step 7—Secure Consensus. Ensure That You Are Communicating With Those Who Didn’t Participate or Who Have a Different Vision \\ Step 8—Develop an Action Plan to Implement Your Vision \\ How to Develop an Action Plan \\ Conclusions—Developing an Action Plan as a Team \\ 7. Barriers and Sustainability \\ Vision, Mission, and Goals—Implementation \\ Lead the Visioning Journey \\ Obstacles on the Path \\ What Processes Will Be Affected? \\ Challenges in Implementing Heart Centered Learning \\ Promoting Heart Centered Learning \\ Implementing Visions Requires Change \\ You’re Not Operating in a Vacuum \\ Sustainability \\ Focus, Priorities, and Goal Setting \\ When Leadership Changes \\ Conclusions—Leveraging Communities Near and Far to Overcome Barriers to Sustainability \\ PART III: VISIONING AT THE MACRO LEVEL \\ 8. Future Visioning—Here and Across the Globe \\ Trends in Education Affecting How Schools Operate \\ Change and Its Drivers \\ Technology and Our Way of Being and Doing \\ Unwanted Side Effects of Too Much Technology \\ Change Driver 1—Automating Choices \\ Change Driver 2—Civic Superpowers \\ Change Driver 3—Accelerating Brains \\ Mindfulness and Executive Functioning \\ Change Driver 4—Toxic Narratives \\ Stress \\ The Future of Employment \\ Change Driver 5—Remaking Geographies \\ Change Driver 6—Social Emotional and Heart Centered Learning \\ Heart Centered Learning \\ Implementing Heart Centered Learning \\ International Concerns and Children’s Well-Being \\ An Entrepreneurial Vision for Education on a Global Scale \\ 9. Conclusion \\ Leadership for Tomorrow \\ References \\ Index

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