Leading with Soul

Examining the Praxis of Critical Servant Leadership Theory and Spiritual Leadership for School Administrators

This book aims to challenge what we consider to be static and superficial understandings of servant leadership within PreK-12 school communities.

This book aims to challenge what we consider to be static and superficial understandings of servant leadership within PreK-12 school communities. We highlight myriad ways servant leadership is misused and misunderstood within educational settings and contend that this misuse has led to a lack of moral leadership grounded in individual and collective conceptualizations of spirituality. Further, there is scant literature addressing both diverse manifestations of and the dearth of spiritual leadership within schools. Recent critical leadership theories have emerged to help leaders reflect on implications related to race and racism, gender (e.g., homophobia), and religion (e.g., I