Solution Tree

This guide helps educators implement a continuous school-improvement system through application of the seven correlates of effective schools.

Examine the ways your school can better use student achievement data, nonacademic student data, staff data, and parent/community data to identify areas for improvement.

The authors offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute to a healthier school culture.

Learn how to take advantage of technology to collaborate with other educators. You’ll improve your own learning and deepen the learning of your students.

Understand how to properly use the SMART goal process to effect change and achieve real school improvement.

Understand the research behind the 10 indicators, and use rubrics to improve your school. Use tools and strategies to create buy-in, involve stakeholders, and monitor and report your progress.

Learn how the PLC process works and see the best PLC practices in action. Using a real-world PLC school district as an example, the authors will prepare you to make the professional learning community model work for your school or district.

Discover how to develop and strengthen the four essential skills of effective educational leaders. Inspire a shared vision of strategic change and overcome resistance through strong communication, trust building, empowerment of those you lead, and a focus on results.

Cultivate the foundational leadership skills you need to enact effective organizational change for school improvement. Utilize the four explored skills to strategically plan school initiatives, have critical conversations, respond to resistance, and manage yourself through change and resistance.

Lead a whole-child learning environment where student engagement and success thrive. This practical educational leadership book guides school leaders in using 12 powerful leadership lenses and the stages of leadership development to overcome challenges and balance priorities while still supporting the whole student.