Make a substantive impact on the lives of your students and your staff. This practical, hands-on guide can help you become more effective as an instructional leader. Here are research-backed activities to help you: establish and implement your instructional goals; be there for your staff; create a learning-oriented school culture and climate; communicate your school's vision and mission to staff and students; set high expectations for your staff; develop teacher leaders; and maintain a positive attitude toward students, staff, and parents. Integrate these seven steps into your daily behavior. Chapters on each step include discussion and advice from instructional leaders, research data, and practical suggestions you can use right now in your own school.
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In Pursuit of Positive and Proactive Behaviors – The Challenge Every school wants to provide a safe, preventive, and positive learning environment, but recent shifts in societal and cultural norms have given rise to reactions that can be ...
How Leadership Works: A Playbook for Instructional Leaders walks educators through the processes of clarifying, articulating, and actualizing instructional leadership goals with the aim of delivering on the promise of equity and excellence ...
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.
This comprehensive guide features: Easy-to-follow, single-topic chapters Standards–based scenarios and questions Time-management self-assessments Easily adaptable experiential exercises Strategies for battling the “silent time thief”
Best-selling author Elaine McEwan demonstrates how teaching routines, rubrics, and rules during the first three weeks of school leads to higher achievement through the rest of the year!
How to survive and thrive in the first three weeks of school. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. McEwan, E. K., & McEwan, P. J. (2003). Making sense of research: What's good, what's not, and how to tell the difference.
This solid, sustainable, and laser-sharp focus on instructional leadership helps leaders hone, model and lead new learning through deliberate practice.
This book will launch the message onto a much larger platform. Stephen R. Covey takes the 7 Habits, that have already changed the lives of millions of people, and shows how children can use them as they develop.
The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education: 7 Steps for Schools and Districts Ken Kay and Valerie Greenhill A 7-Steps blueprint for educational leaders to help their schools and districts prepare students for the challenges of the 21st ...