To meet the needs of today's learners, fearless leadership is required to continually lead and support the adults who work with these learners. Many leaders lack the essential skill sets required to move stakeholders toward progress. A challenging problem for too many leaders is how, what to, and when to collaborate well with stakeholders. Remaining politically correct, being careful not to offend, and concentrating on getting promotions or retaining a position can often cloud the focus required to strengthen a leader's effectiveness. This book hits at the very core of the academic, behavioral, and social/emotional needs of students, and would help many instructional leaders to establish a foundation from which to guide their schools to greater success, as well as teaching administrators to rely on and empower master teachers to lead the way.
Common Holes and Misconceptions and What To Do About Them
Discover the "why" behind students' math mistakes with this bank of 180 downloadable, standards-aligned math tasks, common misunderstandings, and next instructional steps.
Implementing Core Curriculum and Other Tier One Activities
In this guide, three experienced school counselors take readers step by step through the creation and implementation of high-quality Tier 1 systems of universal support. With a focus on proactive and prevention education through core curriculum classroom lessons and schoolwide activities, this practical text includes plenty of examples to help with design, implementation, and evaluation as well as guidance for selecting curriculum and developing lesson and action plans.
6 Vital Practices for Thriving and Responsive Schools
The rate of economic, social and technological change has increased rapidly in the last century and industrial-age organizational models are no longer capable of keeping up. Self-organization is a set of principles and practices that allow for organizations to evolve with purpose through more individual ownership, accountability, and transparency. This book is filled with examples and stories showing how organizations in other industries and education have adopted self-organization models, as well as how some school districts are implementing the structural changes required to become more agile. These types of changes are rooted in organizational culture, a refreshed mindset, and the creation of a shared consciousness. Districts working through this will feel uncomfortable, but implemented thoughtfully, they will realize more effective ways to get things done. The authors provide concrete tools that anyone in education can use in designing their teams for success. This book will also address the issue of teacher recruitment and retention.
A Practical Approach to Implementing Targeted Interventions
This book includes practical examples, case scenarios, and rubrics for identifying current states of implementation and filling in gaps based on recommended actions and examples. It can also be utilized in teacher, support services, and administrator preparation programs and for training and consulting purposes for current educators/administrators.
In addition to wise applications of power, this book focuses on the duty leaders face to forge and strengthen bonds of trust. The author coaches leaders on honing the interpersonal competencies necessary for leadership effectiveness, as well as strengthening self-regard and attitudes toward others. Well suited for various settings, the ideas and action steps offered in Reaching the Heart of Leadership aim to re-ignite the passion and determination in individuals who continue to make a difference through education.
Merging the Classics With Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers
With the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies that they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. In this research-backed book, teachers are also shown the basics of creating a classroom library and how to build a blended curriculum for both fiction and non-fiction units.
What does it mean to be a "lead learner" in a school? What does it mean to be a "learning organization"? This book takes up those questions by advancing a concept of the school as a learning organization in which prescribed expectations and experiential professional judgment don't have to be (and in fact shouldn't be) oppositional and incompatible. The authors refer to this particular type of learning organization as an "intelligent, responsive" school.
Dimensions: 24" x 36" This large dry-erase poster provides teachers with an easy way to help document students' journey through the Learning Challenge. Based on the book, The Learning Challenge by James Nottingham, this poster features: - The four stages of The Learning Challenge: Concept, Cognitive Conflict, Construct, and Consider - ......
