Praise for The Noble School Leader

"There's no one better able than Matthew Taylor to show how the emotional intelligence framework can be applied to school leaders. The Noble School Leader democratizes leadership excellence."

--DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

"Matt has created a new approach that takes the concepts of emotional intelligence and makes them specific to the lived realities of school leaders. You will see yourself reflected in this book, and you will walk away with deepened insight and actionable strategies for shifting the deep mindsets that can hold us back."

--SARA KEENAN, founder and managing director of the Charter Network Accelerator

A field guide to creating learning conditions that make transformative leadership education possible, The Noble School Leader delivers an inspiring and eye-opening exploration of the mindsets that facilitate continued self-awareness and development in a classroom setting. It also describes counter-productive mentalities that simply get in the way and that should be avoided at all costs.

In this book, you'll discover the most common internal obstacles that prevent school leaders--from teacher leaders to superintendents--from achieving their goals. You'll also find out how to surface core values and drivers that shift mindsets and behaviors, as well as how to understand the core domains of emotional intelligence and how to use the author's proprietary 5-Square Tool to create personal growth plans.

Full of concrete advice you can use to create goals and plans to carry you through challenging leadership moments, The Noble School Leader is an indispensable resource for school leaders and managers who seek to build personal adaptive leadership competencies. It's also required reading for any K-12 teacher or administer interested in maximizing the social-emotional conditions for learning.