Calm in the Chaos: Ancient Stoic Wisdom for Successful School Leadership (The School Leadership Success Series)
Bauer, Daniel; Robbins, Glenn; Curry, Ariel
Language: English
Published by Ruckus Maker Media, 2024
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- Title
- Calm in the Chaos: Ancient Stoic Wisdom for Successful School Leadership (The School Leadership Success Series)
- Author
- Bauer, Daniel; Robbins, Glenn; Curry, Ariel
- Publisher
- Ruckus Maker Media
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798988135043
- Item weight
- 246 grams
- Series
- Book 3 of 4: The School Leadership Success Series
Over half of school leaders say stress is pushing them to quit within three years. What if the problem was never the chaos, but how you meet it?
You showed up to lead.
Instead you spend your days absorbing other people's panic, putting out fires you didn't start, and lying awake replaying the board meeting, the angry parent, the staff member you had to let go.
You want to lead with poise instead of reacting to everything that lands on your desk. You want to go home with something left in the tank.
For more than two thousand years, the most tested leaders in history have used one philosophy to stay grounded when everything around them was on fire. It's called Stoicism, and this book hands it to you, translated entirely for the realities of running a school.
In Calm in the Chaos, you'll discover:
- How to be a successful school leader by mastering the one Stoic distinction that ends most of your stress: what you control and what you don't.
- The four Stoic virtues—wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance—rebuilt as daily school leadership practices, not abstract theory.
- How stoic virtues and school leadership combine to help you stay humble, protect your people, and resist the urge for vengeance when you're under attack
- A practical bridge between stoicism and education: listen first, act with discretion, see the good, and abandon anger in the moments that test you most
- How to build the unshakeable equanimity that makes stress-free school leadership possible. Protecting your peace, refusing to be swayed, and remembering that nothing endures
Stoic wisdom has steadied leaders from Marcus Aurelius to Admiral James Stockdale, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Arianna Huffington. DANIEL BAUER hosts the #1 downloaded school leadership podcast—with nearly 2 million IAB-certified downloads across 104 countries—and writes alongside veteran superintendent GLENN ROBBINS, who has led through exactly the storms you're facing.
For principals, assistant principals, and superintendents who are tired of leading reactively and ready to lead from a place of calm, clarity, and strength.
School leadership will never be easy. But it can be easier. Part of The School Leadership Success Series.
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About the Author
GLENN ROBBINS is the proud Superintendent of the Brigantine Public School District. He is a multi-award winning state and national school administrator, mentor, consultant, and keynote speaker. He has been recognized for his innovative school and district improvement methods, and has been featured in numerous books, podcasts, and other publications. Glenn is passionate about helping school leaders create schools where every student and educator has the opportunity to succeed to their utmost potential in a VUCA world.
ARIEL CURRY is a ghostwriter, bestselling editor, and book coach. She spent 10 years working in traditional publishing, most of that time as an acquisitions editor. Several of the books she edited and published have achieved Amazon bestseller status and have been bestsellers for the publisher. Some of her more notable clients include supermodel Genevieve Morton, winner of the TED $1 Million Prize for Research Sugata Mitra, education researcher John Hattie, Home Improvement writer and producer Matt Williams, and NYT bestselling author Warren Berger. Ariel specializes in a variety of nonfiction genres. As an editor and coach, she enjoys brainstorming and outlining new book ideas, bringing clarity and purpose to prose, and helping authors find resilience in their writing journey. Her favorite projects are those that tell a story of transformation-either the author's transformation through an event or situation in their life, or the reader's transformation in overcoming a problem. She loves working with authors who challenge the status quo and can shine light in the dark spaces of our world with powerful stories. When she's not working, you can find Ariel doing yoga, practicing Chopin on the piano, or reading with a cup of coffee. Originally from California, she now lives in Chattanooga, TN, with her husband and a growing menagerie of pets.
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