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214. Leading 5 Generations in Schools: Featuring Mark White

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Today’s leaders face the challenge of leading five generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and brand-new Generation Z teachers, along with Gen Alpha, today’s youngest students. In this week’s episode, Mark White, shares his research and experiences to address expectations implicit with leading each generation. 

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About Mark White:


Mark White is an award-winning teacher, school leader, and author. He was previously the superintendent of the Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools in Gahanna, Ohio, and the academic principal at the Beijing National Day School in Beijing, China. He has frequently been a guest speaker in universities and at local, state, and national conferences. As a consultant, he has coached thousands of educators in schools across America.

Mark is the co-author, along with Dwight L. Carter, of What's in Your Space: Five Steps for Successful School Redesign (Corwin Press 2016) and Leading Schools in Disruptive Times: How to Survive Hyper-Change (Corwin Press 2018), which was chosen by Learning Forward as a book club selection. A second edition of the book, updated during the COVID pandemic of 2020, was released in 2021. His latest book, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020’s was released by Corwin Press in October of 2021 and was recently selected for placement in the Sage Knowledge digital library, a collection of books accessed by researchers and academics from around the world.

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