Education Futures for School Leadership

J-C Couture is Adjunct Professor & Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.Stephen Murgatroyd is Chief Executive Officer of Skills4AllOurFuture, Founder & Director of Collaborative Media Group Inc., and a graduate-level Academic Coach in the Faculty of Business at Athabasca University, Canada, and a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.

• 1. School Leaders and Futures Thinking 2. Seeing the Future through Narrative 3. Futures Studies and the Discipline of Anticipation 4. Navigating Reimagined Educational Futures 5. Adaptive School Cultures for Our VACU World 6. Making the Futures Present – Making a Time-Shift Happen 7. Leadership of Anticipation in the Digital Disruptions of Education 8. Scenarios for the Future of Schools 9. Regenerative Thinking as a Futures Tool 10. Building Capabilities for the Future: The Coaching Work of School Leaders Epilogue: A Letter to Our Readers from 2030

“Couture and Murgatroyd boldly take advantage of the work being done worldwide to better understand and apply futures literacy. This book makes a timely and inspiring contribution to rethinking the relationships entangling leadership, learning, and imagining the future.”—Riel Miller, PhD, Former Head of Futures Literacy at UNESCO.“The authors have found the perfect balance between theory, conceptual frameworks, case studies, and activities. This book is of great use to the teacher, curriculum designer, leader, policymaker, principal, and indeed, the student. Every chapter wisely consists of theory, method, case study, and activities. The book is both rigorous and easy to use. I strongly recommend this book.”—Sohail Inayatullah, PhD, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity at the International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia“For busy school leaders, the field of future studies has often seemed barrenly speculative and exasperatingly impractical—until now. This new gem of a book by tested change leaders J-C Couture and Stephen Murgatroyd is bristling with the perfect blend of conceptual breakthroughs and down-to-earth guidelines that make it an instant classic. Best of all, the book is a real page-turner, with writing so energetic and messages so exciting that you just can’t wait to see what you will be learning next. Education Futures for School Leadership is a welcome addition to every thinking person’s bookshelf.”—Dennis Shirley, PhD, Research Professor, Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, USA“Education Futures for School Leadership is an essential guide for principals, teachers, and anyone committed to shaping the future of education. As the landscape of learning evolves unpredictably, the challenge for school leaders is to navigate these dynamic changes and envision the possibilities of future schools. This book provides invaluable insights and strategies, helping educators not only to adapt but to lead in reimagining what future schools can become.”—Pasi Sahlberg, PhD, Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Melbourne, Australia“The world has always been volatile and uncertain, and today the stakes are higher than ever. Couture and Murgatroyd’s new book offers educators and education leaders innovative and practical strategies to rethink how they address the growing challenges they face. The book engages the thinking tools of future studies, making them accessible and easy to understand. It offers both thoughtful, grounded insights and actionable steps to help envision alternative futures for education. I highly recommend this book to anyone involved in education.”—Eric Heins, former President of the California Teachers Association