Jane Kise

Differentiation Through Personality Types
This book shows how one framework can help teachers better meet the needs of all students. Personality type, a grounded theory of how people are energized, take in information, make decisions, and approach life, provides practical strategies, examples and stories for classroom management, lesson planning, student behavior plans, building relationships, culturally responsive teaching, unbiased formative and summative assessments, and improving student motivation.

Differentiated School Leadership: Effective Communication, Collaboration and Change Through Personality Type
Research identifies 26 key roles effective principals are to play in schools--and no one person can do it all! Learn how to use the framework of personality type to establish collaborative leadership, work to your strengths, improve communication, and create a school that meets the needs of every student and staff member.

SoulTypes
The most meaningful ritual for prayer or worship for one person can be spiritually deadening for others. What practices draw you toward God? What pushes you away? These pages use the theory of personality type to examine patterns in how we worship, pray, study and serve. It is our hope that these pages will enrich the spiritual paths of each reader while helping them honor the very different paths of others.

Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change
Teachers form their practices around what they do best.

Their strengths are related to their own personalities and learning styles.

Their personalities and learning styles drive their core educational beliefs.

Changing their teaching practices means changing those core beliefs.

That makes change very, very difficult.

Differentiated Coaching describes six key elements of an effective program for bringing about school reform. Foremost is starting with the needs of the teachers. When staff development programs target improving the learning of all students, all too often the design fails to acknowledge that teachers, like students, have different strengths, beliefs and learning styles. In my consulting work over several years, and through my doctoral dissertation research, I’ve found that what others label resistance to change is frequently due to lack of differentiation in school reform efforts.

However, differentiation requires a common, neutral language so that discussions can shift from “good” and “bad” teaching practices to understanding which kinds of students will be reached. That kind of approach creates an environment for honesty in which true change can occur and teachers, as well as students, can flourish.

While other frameworks can be used with in the school change model described in Differentiated Coaching, the book details how the language of psychological type, popularized through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, can help create a climate where differences in style can be honored. The model serves as a structure for collaboration and for coaching teachers by identifying the differing needs they have for information and support as they work to change their classrooms.

Working with Purpose

LifeKeys: Discover Who You Are
Bethany House Publishers

LifeKeys is a revolutionary new approach to self-discovery that helps people determine all they were made to be so they can live effectively for God.

To more closely align who you are with your career and calling, LifeKeys has at its foundation the belief that while it is useful to understand what you do well—your talents and gifts—it isn’t enough.

Most personality “tests” or spiritual gift inventories look at only one or two elements of who someone is. LifeKeys looks at five elements:

 Life gifts or talents, adding a deeper understanding of the theory behind the Strong Interest Inventory.

 Spiritual gifts through a self-discovery process that includes biblical and modern day stories of the gifts in use.

 Personality type by exploring the theories behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to identify places or atmospheres where you might prefer to work, live or volunteer.

 Values and passions to discover how you might best add meaning and purpose to your life.

Did You Get What You Prayed For?
Multnomah Books

This book, written with Nancy Jo Sullivan, is a collection of true stories, meditations, and fresh looks at how people in the Bible prayed. Rather than theological explanations about how prayer works, readers are guided through the complexities of questions they have about prayer by storytellers who have faced difficulties and found that God indeed hears our prayers

Find Your Fit: Dare to Act on God's Design For You
Bethany House Publishers

Find Your Fit covers the same five lenses as the adult LifeKeys (talents, spiritual gifts, personality, values and passions) to help teens figure out why they're here and what they do best. The workbook was designed for use in public schools. There's a leader's guide for youth workers as well.