Leadership Resources for Arts Educators

Arts Education Resources

• Through generous support from Vans Custom Culture, Americans for the Arts has designed the Arts Education Navigator, a series of e-books designed to equip arts education supporters with the knowledge, statistics, and case-making skills to effectively communicate with decision-makers.
• Ideas for taking leadership action in arts education
• An arts education manual for school leaders (source: New York City Schools)
• Arts education and leadership development by Edutopia
• Arts Leadership Masters Programs
  • University of Houston College of the Arts
  • LEAP Institute for the Arts
  • USC Art Leadership

Some of the Best Leadership Resources for Professionals

• Why by Simon Sinek 
• Dare to Lead by Brene Brown 
• Leading Change by  John K. Kotter 
• The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team and  The Advantage by  Patrick Lencioni
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
• The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and Developing the Leader within You (both by John Maxwell)
• Discover your True North by Bill George

Mentoring Resources

• National Mentoring Resource Center
• Mentoring Free Professional Resources
• One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work with a Mentor- and Why you Will Benefit from Being One by Ken Blanchard and Claire Diaz-Ortiz
• The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships by Lois B. Zachary
• HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring you Need (Harvard Business Review)

Leadership Development for Kids and Teens

• Leadership for Kids: Curriculum for Building Leadership in Gifted Learners by Cecelia Boswell, Mary Christopher, J.J. Colburn
• 15 Tips for Instilling Leadership Skills in Children by John Rampton
• The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey (Author), Stacy Curtis (Illustrator)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey and The 7 Habits Work Book by Sean Covey
• Developing Teen Leadership: A Practical Guide for Youth Group Advisors, Teachers and Parents by Dan Appleman
• Leader in Me by Stephen Covey

Books on Arts Management and Leadership for Professionals

• Performing Arts Management: a Handbook of Professional Practices by Jessica Bathurst and Tobie Stein
• Leadership in the Performing Arts by Tobie Stein and Robert Lynch
• Arts Management: Uniting Arts and Audiences in the 21st Century by Ellen Rosewall
• Management and the Arts by William James Brynes