Leadership

Explore the state of education today, and discover the steps that policymakers, administrators, and teachers must take to transform schools.

Prepare students to move forward in mathematics learning, and ensure their continued growth in critical thinking and problem solving.

Create a uniform game plan to foster a collaborative community of learners, develop a shared focus, and meet growth goals.

Explore the Leading for Excellence and Fulfillment model, and discover practical, research-based strategies that are relevant to school leaders today and tomorrow.

Accurately report students' academic strengths and weaknesses with standards-based grading.

Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you'll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level.

Learn how to leverage the most provocative brain-based learning and neuroscience research to increase your productivity, expand your creative vision, and become a stronger leader. Explore neuroleadership topics such as decision making, change management, and emotional intelligence.

Identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success.

With a focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership, the authors show how to grow PLCs by encouraging innovation at every level.

This book breaks down the complex process of aligning all levels districtwide in order for a professional learning community to reach its full potential.