5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s

Here is a publication that celebrates the different generations that schools now have teaching in and attending them. It offers practical tips to include the skills of all the generations to offer the best teaching and learning for everyone.
Where you stand depends sometimes on where you sit. And where you sit is often influenced by how and when you grew up. Mark’s analysis and unique understanding of the impact and needs necessary for today’s leaders to work with different generations is timely, relevant, and revealing. One size rarely fits all.

There are so many nuances that take place within a school that we need to understand, and Mark White focuses on one of the most important. 5-Gen Leadership engages educators into understanding how different generations teaching within our school approach our greatest issues and provides the tools to begin those conversations.
How do we prepare today’s students for the rapidly changing workplace and society in which they will live, work, and interact in an education system designed for a century that has passed us by? In 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Mark White clearly provides a well-lit path to assist educators to successfully make the necessary cultural, structural and instructional changes that are needed.

Foreword
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Boomers to Alphas
Understanding the Four Generations in Staffs Today
Two Groups Are Trying to Lead, and Two Groups Are Trying to Fit In. Sort of . . .
Millennial Teachers Are Walking Away
Making Generational Adjustments
Trouble in the Gen Z Teaching Pipeline
Recruiting Gen Z Teachers
Take Steps Now to Become a 5-Gen Leader
And After We Recruit and Retain Them . . .
Chapter 2: The Impact of the Silent Generation and Gen Alpha
Lessons From the Silent Generation
Gen Alpha, the New Generation
Gen Alpha’s Impact on Education
The Transcendent Power of Relationships
Chapter 3: Moving From Managing to Coaching
The Challenge of Transitioning to a New Model
Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas: Handle With Care
Coaching Into Grit and Professionalism
Rethinking Evaluations
New Channels for Communication
Chapter 4: Teaching Distracted Generations
Our Evolving Brains
Distracted Students, Distracted Teachers
Clues in the News
Chapter 5: Tactics for Creating Multigenerational PD
Acknowledging the PD Problem
A Global Leadership Question: “How Do We Train These Different Generations?”
Relevancy in PD
Finding the Generations in the Staff
Mind the Gap!
Presentation Methods for Teacher Z
Chapter 6 Generational Lessons of COVID-19
Gen Z and Gen Alpha: The New Lost Generations?
The New Digital Divide
A Flipping of the Paradigm
Adjusting Mindsets
Advice for Changing Mindsets
The Digital Gap in Administrators
Chapter 7: Upagers and Political Activism
Gen Z Survivors Leading the Way on Gun Reform
Gen Z Leading the Way in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Lessons From a University Protest
The Coming of the Minority Majority
Chapter 8: Millennials and Gen Z Ascending in the 2020s
Four Key Points and Questions for the 2020s
The University Model Could Affect the PreK-12 Model
New Paths to Leadership
The Future: Millennial Teachers, Gen Z Teachers, and AI Teachers?
Being Human in the 2020s
50 Tips for Transitioning to 5-Gen Leadership
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