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No matter your school improvement plan, data-driven leadership is key. These five big ideas will dispel popular myths long held by school and district leaders, reinvigorate your commitment to focus on the right work, and guide you in supporting the daily practices that matter most in achieving high levels of student success.

Equip your students to be resilient individuals, able to communicate effectively and work with diverse people.

Develop a school improvement plan for leading school turnaround. Designed for school leaders and district administrators, as well as teacher leaders, Flip This School presents a framework to create a successful turnaround school and support continuous improvement.

Learn how to design, interpret, and systematically use three different types of formative assessments and how to track student progress and assign meaningful grades.

Discover transformative assessment strategies with Marcia L. Tate. From brain-compatible classrooms to effective questioning, empower student comprehension and retention before, during, and after lessons.

Learn, do, and lead with the guidance of Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC at Work.® With this practical resource, you’ll first discover how to gather evidence from staff about PLC practices, processes, and products. Then you’ll explore how to use that evidence to gauge the effectiveness of your PLC.

In this book, the authors provide the guidance and resources for schools to use the four pillars as the root of their PLC process. Discover strategies and tools to audit your mission statement, understand the role of a guiding coalition, and create collective commitments.

Investigate why the traditional education system isnt working, and explore how to give students control over the learning process.

Utilizing the elements of effective leadership—purpose, trust, focus, leverage, feedback, change, and sustainability—education leaders can overcome any challenge.

Explore how you can continually adapt to an ever-changing culture, and uncover the technologies you must adopt to create an effective classroom.