This step-by-step how-to guide presents the six driving forces of instructional leadership within a multi-stage model for implementation, delivering lasting improvement through small, collaborative changes.
How School Leaders Can Unlock Deeper Collaboration and Drive Results
Deepen your connections with students, staff, and your larger community. Behind every thriving school or district are deeply interconnected teams that consistently engage in a reciprocal transfer of learning. Leading With Intention aims to make this process visible by helping leaders and teachers understand how their thinking impacts their decision-making and the overall well-being of their learning communities. Through five highly practical chapters, authors DeWitt and Nelson explore self-awareness, nurturing human interconnectedness, collective inquiry, establishing a learning network, and crafting a personal learning environment. Filled with research, stories, and places to process information, this timely book is focused on how educators think, the choices they make, and how they develop deeper academic and social-emotional connections. Other features include: Success criteria to help readers identify personal goals Suggested activities to apply knowledge Reflection sheets with guiding questions In-depth examples to illustrate content School-leaders will come away with a deeper understanding of the importance of self-awareness in leadership and the pedagogical knowledge required to focus initiatives on student learning. Leading with Intention helps education leaders go from being merely 'on task' to deeply engaged and reconnected with why they entered the education profession in the first place.
When it comes to school initiatives, more isn't always better. Today's educators are buried under old practices, new ideas, and recommended initiatives. Before you're tempted to add just one more idea to the pile, take a step back--and an objective look--so that you and your teachers can decide which practices to keep, which to modify, and ......
This research-based, hands-on guidebook introduces eight key drivers to integrating teacher and leader efficacy, along with a process that focuses on the nuances of instruction.
What type of leadership do you practice? Many of us rely on transformational and instructional leadership. But there are advantages in applying a holistic angle including all stakeholders - an approach known as collaborative leadership. This book inspires you to transform your leadership practice, identify where you can make changes and more.
Lead Collectively bridges this gap by providing a comprehensive framework for shared understanding, joint work, and evidence-based decision-making to strengthen leadership teams and amplify their impact on teaching and learning.
Using the Art of Coaching to Improve School Leadership
This book provides thoughtful insights and practical suggestions for improving the quality of leadership coaching in practice. It is a must-read for school leaders and leadership coaches. It is full of research, tips, and examples to help improve readers' efficacy as a leader.
Centered on staff efficacy, this resource presents leaders with a variety of tools to improve school climate, community stakeholder engagement, and ultimately, student growth.
This short book will be a guide for school leaders on how to flip communication with staff members, parents, and the larger school community. The author emphasizes that flipping information - or providing information in digital form so that recipients can ingest it on their own time, before coming together to discuss in person - allows for richer face-to-face discussions and more meaningful face-to-face meetings. The book will offer both step-by-step guidance on various tools that enable flipping communication as well as the rationale for why flipping provides for a more meaningful school community and relationships between staff members.
