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Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships for Communities & Schools, 2nd edition

Here’s what a few great leaders have said about the bestselling book: 

Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships for Communities and Schools~


“. . . (Hank’s) right on target for the thoughtful nonprofit leader . . . he’ll make you think and help you succeed!”

Dr. Carl C. Bell, formerly Univ. of Illinois and President & CEO, Community Mental Health Council


“. . . reminds me of my good pal Dr. Earnest Boyer . . . (with) that special forward-looking thinking of a great collaborative leader.”

Robert J. Danzig, author of The Leader Within You and former Senior Executive of Hearst Newspapers


“. . . outstanding, comprehensive, insightful, clear and brief . . . ”

Sandy Boyd, former president of the University of Iowa and the Field Museum of Natural History


“. . . Hank is, once again, at the portal of a new area of (leadership development) . . . Lord knows, we need to understand, learn, and teach young and aspiring public leaders how to build and manage their relationships with other public leaders.”

US Congressman Danny K. Davis, US House of Representatives, 7th District, Illinois


“Hank Rubin is at it again. Collaboration Skills for Educators and Nonprofit Leaders … is a little volume with a potentially big payoff for thoughtful practitioners … The focus here is on accomplishing tangible results, making a difference and completing our work in the public realm. Rubin sees our jobs as revolving ‘around building villages of support to raise children.’ His book can help us be successful in that mission.”

Peter Carparelli for The School Superintendents Association, The School Administrator


“This reader-friendly and useful book details convincingly the need for collaboration in educational leadership and provides practical suggestions and tools for leaders who choose to collaborate to accomplish important goals they cannot achieve on their own. “

National Association of Secondary School Principals (Anne Wescott Dodd). NASSP Bulletin

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THE STORY OF ICL’S LITTLE RED WAGON LAPEL PIN

ICL's LITTLE RED WAGON and tboc© has been a featured swag item and instructional device for over 25 years.


The pin has two levels of significance:


  • The little red wagon is a symbol reminding adults of our childhood and the civic responsibility that we all share to find the best way in which we can each contribute to the well-being and education of today’s children. It’s the job of educators, the pin reminds us, to get all those grownups to pile into the wagon and then for each of us to reach back, grab the handle and pull everyone along in aligned support of children’s learning and well-being. This is what I talk about when I refer to ‘educators as leaders’.
  • The “tboc©” on the wagon stands for The Benefit Of Children©: the criterion we each should use to guide us in daily decision-making … for the big decisions as well as the small ones.


These metal lapel pins are meaningful, colorful and indestructible. Brilliant teaching tools and beautiful gifts.


They make great giveaways and discussion-starters for nearly everyone who has ever been a child!

ICL’S COPYRIGHTED TBOC© - THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN©:

In order not to shout past each other, sometimes all we need is a simple rule that we can all share in common … a principle we can all agree upon, so we can find the common ground on which we can collaborate.


When considering any issue worthy of debate, we can be certain we’re making the best decision from among its alternatives if we make it about The Benefit Of Children©.


It isn’t all that complicated. We’ve all seen how simple organizing principles – like “It’s the economy, stupid!” or “Show me the money!” – make it easier to bring people together into agreement on what’s important and what our priorities should be.


tboc© calls on us to make only one leap of faith: we have to agree that decisions that favor the wellbeing of children are better than those that don’t (or that don’t favor children’s wellbeing as much). That’s it!


Once we accept tboc© as our organizing principle, we’ve established a simple criterion for making our public decisions: Is the decision we’re about to make better or worse for children than its next best option?

ORDER YOUR OWN LITTLE RED WAGON PIN - THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN©:

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