Doing the Right Thing

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School leadership can look easy from the safety of a classroom discussion. In Doing the Right Thing, Dewitt Jones leverages a lifetime of leadership experience and passion to create a must-have resource for aspiring and practicing school leaders. The scenarios challenge readers to apply standards, critique leaders' actions, and reflect on how they would approach each situation. Rich with context and complexity, Doing the Right Thing is a powerful tool that stretches readers' comfort zones as they unpack these intense dilemmas and articulate what constitutes the right thing and why. -- Nicholas J. Pace, professor and chair, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Educational Administration, & co-author, The Principal's Hot Seat: Observing Real-World Dilemmas (2nd ed.) In Doing the Right Thing, Dewitt Jones provides a vast array of learning opportunities for current and future educational leaders to examine how to handle different leadership challenges. The scenarios provided may have multiple solutions on how to solve them, but it always comes back to the key concept that, as leaders, we must always do the right thing for students and staff. -- Darwin Lehmann, Central Springs Community School District and Forest City Community Dewitt Jones has run the gamut of educational leadership positions in his lifetime...from classroom teacher to principal to superintendent to serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. For almost two decades, he served as my principal and superintendent in a growing district in central Iowa...the Norwalk Community School District. Throughout those years, I grew to appreciate his dedication to the field of education and his leadership abilities. He could always relate to students, parents, and staff with ease...and a sense of humor to boot! Articulate and knowledgeable...and persuasive. You just knew he would be successful as he honed his craft. And he was. -- Al Hart, retired, social science teacher, forty plus years