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Leading without Being Stung: The Instructional Leader Meets the Apiarist

Pass the Crayons: Leadership, Art Production, and Communities of Practice

Instructional Supervision as Dialogue: Utilizing the Conversation of Art to Promote the Art of Communication

Instructional leadership, connoisseurship and critique: using an arts‐based approach to extend conversations about teaching

Arts-Based Instructional Leadership: Crafting a Supervisory Practice that Supports the Art of Teaching

When we view art, understanding comes in part as we engage in reflective practice. Here, author Zach Kelehear encourages school leaders and teachers to reflect on their own leadership capacities and to develop an art for leading schools. Using the language of art criticism and critique with real-life examples and case studies, he helps readers to identify an "eye" for leadership with specific discussion in matters of school leadership and instructional supervision. Drawing on the arts-based research approach, Kelehear embraces the language of art critique: the elements of art and the principles of design. The Art of Leadership:·Presents original art work from the lithographs of Joseph Norman and provides an example of art criticism from each work ·Describes a real-life case study that involves the element or principle·Helps readers connect the art interpretation with the leadership application Readers will gain:·A deeper appreciation for the critique of art ·An enlarged view of the art of school leadership and instructional supervision·A better understanding of their own leadership art This book should be of interest to students, practitioners, and artists in K-12 and higher education.

The Art of Leadership: A Choreography of Human Understanding

Leading without Being Stung offers practitioners a repertoire of eight, research-supported strategies for affecting teaching performance.

Instructional Leadership as Art: Connecting ISLLC and Aesthetic Inspiration by Zach Kelehear (2008-01-28)

For more than 25 years, Kelehear has been engaged in public education. He has served as a college administrator, professor, a personnel director, staff development director, and a teacher in high school and middle school. 

Kelehear has written articles and books that investigate ideas around artful leadership practice in public schools and business. Among his books on leadership are The Art of Leadership: A Choreography of Human Understanding, Instructional leadership as Art: Connecting ISLLC and Aesthetic Inspiration & Leading without Being Stung: The Instructional Leader Meets the Apiarist all of which were published by Rowman and Littlefield.

Kelehear continues to be engaged in professional organizations and publications. He has been President of the Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision, Chair of both the Arts and Learning SIG and Supervision and Instructional Leadership SIGs at AERA. Along with his peer reviewed work, Kelehear has published in the Journal of Staff Development, American School Board Journal, The School Administrator, Principal Leadership, Principal, and others. He also serves as editor and/or reviewer for four journals and publications.

Kelehear enjoys outdoor activities and tending to his beehives. A native of north Georgia, he also was a college athlete at Furman University where he played football while completing a double major in Latin and History.

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“For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, the public narrative around teaching became highly politicized and negative,” said Dr. Zach Kelehear, dean of the College of Education. Kelehear said these changes began around 2013. “The requirements to be a teacher were changed at the state level, which made it more difficult for people to get into teaching. Things like certification tests and qualifying exams.”

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