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Lead your priority school to success with practical strategies for building a strong school culture, managing conflict, mastering communication, and implementing effective change. Principals who pick up this book will gain essential skills in time management, delegation, and social media navigation.

Learn to cultivate a healthy work-life balance, embrace authenticity, and empower yourself and your leadership team. K–12 leaders can find practical strategies for prioritizing self-care, leading through change, and achieving lasting success without sacrificing personal well-being.

Teacher team leaders, this book is for you. It will build your knowledge and skills in approaches and actions that get more done in less time, and with greater joy, to help your team truly become the engine that drives the most promising strategy for improving student achievement.

Address stress, time management, and burnout in school leadership by developing a balanced approach that supports long-term resilience. Through practical guidance, leaders can optimize motivation, manage stress, and create sustainable daily practices for effective, committed educational leadership.

When leaders foster a culture of frequent, specific recognition in their school system, it allows collaborative teams to function at high levels. In this book, the authors demonstrate how celebrating the “right work” of professional learning communities stimulates the culture shift necessary for successful PLC implementation. Using intentional celebrations, K–12 leaders can improve collaborative team performance, resulting in higher student achievement.

Afterword by: Tina H. Boogren

Built on a foundation of routines and strategies for choosing joy, this book guides educators on a yearlong journey to cultivate lasting joy in their lives. Through insightful narratives and mindful practices, the book explores the power of connection with self and others. Using seasonal reflections, educators learn to experience joy by embracing challenges, finding contentment, and prioritizing rest, resilience, and rejuvenation.

Exploring strategies for addressing implicit bias, tackling chronic absenteeism, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, author Anthony Muhammad and other expert educators provide strategies to inspire teachers, empower English learners, and navigate resistance to change.

This book provides school leaders with the systems and structures needed to implement quality literacy instruction. Learn how to structure a literacy block for different grades, leverage assessments to boost reading proficiency, and discover how leadership and collaboration empower teachers to maximize their impact.

This guidebook of practical research-supported advice and user-friendly tools shows educators how to build collective teacher efficacy in a practical, step-by-step way, whether they are just starting their PLC journeys or are in high-performing PLCs and looking to deepen their practice.

Discover the Situational Leadership Model, a framework to help motivate teachers to take the leap into leadership. This book is a practical guide full of sample meeting planners, planning pages, and other useful resources to streamline the selection process.