Blending Leadership provides all school leaders with a unique approach to utilizing technology for more effective learning and leadership. As the online aspects of schools become just as important as their brick-and-mortar counterparts, leaders must be as effective screen-to-screen as they are face-to-face. Drawing from research, experience, and real-world examples, this book explores and unpacks six core beliefs necessary for the blended leader to succeed. Between email, websites, apps, updates, tweets, attachments, infographics, YouTube, and unceasing notifications, most people are inundated with digital detritus, and they either grow to ignore it or get swept under it. Effective blended leaders see these distractions as spurs to action, models, test cases, remixable commodities, and learning opportunities. Blending Leadership gives you the perspective you need to excel and the knowledge to leverage the tools at your disposal.

Introduction -- Belief #1: Belended leaders engage with thought leaders and engage as thought leaders -- Belief #2: Blended leaders design spaces and care for spaces -- Belief #3: Blended leaders reject insularity and embrace sharing -- Belief #4: Blended leaders challenge meeting structures and change meeting structures -- Belief #5: Blended leaders articulate a mission and advance a mission -- Belief #6: Blended leaders keep the off-ramp open and use it frequently.