"Carefully researched and updated, yet filled with practical and immediately usable strategies, this is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand and influence human behavior." -Pat Wolfe, Educational Consultant "The most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using. It gives leaders what they need to effectively meet the learning needs of individuals and positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity." -Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership Cardinal Stritch University Unleash the power of the leadership-brain connection! This updated edition of the groundbreaking book Connecting Leadership to the Brain provides school leaders with a visionary framework for understanding how mindful leadership significantly impacts growth and achievement in educational communities. Offering an approach compatible with the ways individuals naturally process information and learn, this resource links knowledge about the physiological, social, emotional, constructive, reflective, and dispositional nature of the brain to compatible leadership practice. Leaders will find specific examples and reflection exercises focused on how to: Support the mind-body connection Promote social relationships Harness the power of emotion Expedite the construction of knowledge Build a culture of reflection Cultivate productive dispositions Mindful Leadership is an essential companion for helping readers become mindful leaders who consciously attend to the nature of intelligence in the process of influencing the achievement of goals.
How to Lead Change With Clarity, Conviction, and Courage
When we ask schools to change, we are asking human beings to change and this requires special tools and a human-centered approach. This book shows how school leaders can change the heart of the system by enabling the hearts and minds of those who make schools work. It also helps them make sense of challenging change journeys and accelerate implementation as well as understand why resistance is to be expected and how to get through it with this practical framework that includes human-centered tools, resources and mini case studies. Readers will discover three different kinds of change strategies and when to use each one.
Plan K-2 math lessons that are purposeful, rigorous, and coherent, and discover your blueprint for building an exceptional foundation in math for your students.
Professional Learning Through Collaborative Inquiry and Student Observation
This book provides observation protocols that encourage teachers to: Plan collaborative inquiry projects by identifying a focus of the inquiry, combing the research literature, and identifying resources needed Observe and analyze student conversations, actions, and products Identify patterns and determine next steps for professional learning
It considers how to make effective use of good evidence to build, refine and adapt leadership development initiatives so they contribute to growth in powerful forms of leadership and those conditions in schools that matter most to students.
The indispensable leadership companion-updated and more relevant than ever! Part leadership manual, part short novel, this unique best-seller uses dialogues between a novice and a master teacher and between a new and a seasoned principal to illuminate how the simple act of viewing a problem through different lenses-political, human resources, structural, or symbolic-can reveal better options and solutions. Featuring reflective questions and solid strategies for meeting real-life challenges, the third edition also includes New views on building morale in challenging times A revamped discussion of mandates, standards, and rubrics A celebration of educators as skilled professionals Expanded conversations about hope, faith, and parental involvement Sometimes all it takes to solve a problem is to reframe it by listening to wise advice from a trusted mentor.
Tools, Plans, and a Process That Works for Any Instructional Leader, Grades K-12
Using the Leading for Mathematical Proficiency Framework, the authors position student outcomes as the focus of all professional work and connect the Eight Mathematical Practices for students with NCTM's Eight Effective Teaching Practices to help you guide teachers toward growing mathematics proficiency in their classrooms. This hands-on resource details critical coaching and teaching actions, and offers nearly a hundred tools for shifting classroom practice in a way that leads to student math proficiency and understanding of mathematical concepts. It also hones in on key areas such as content knowledge, student engagement, questioning and discourse, analysis of student work, formative assessment, support for emergent language learners and students with special needs, and more.
The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy
Much more than a resource for EL specialists, EL Excellence Every Day is written for every teacher, with a singular focus on improving the ways we all differentiate literacy instruction. It includes over 85 flip-to strategies plus 200+ prompts and linguistic scaffolds.
This expansion of the popular Common Core Mathematics Companions provides a Cross-Referencing Index for states implementing state-specific mathematics standards and shows which are the same as CCSS-M, which differ and how.
