Leadership

In Powerful Inquiry, the authors encourage leaders to build core leadership skills and competencies. School and district leaders will learn how leading with questions deepens their capacity and builds the mindset and skill sets of others to lead in a way that cultivates collaboration and innovation.

Fill your toolkit with effective strategies to own your processes, actions, and outcomes in professional learning group activities. The authors provide leaders with methods to design and prepare productive and efficient group meetings and interactions, regardless of place.

Fully step into your power as a school principal. By diving deep into five essential leadership actions and five essential leadership skills, you will learn how to grow in your role and accomplish incredible outcomes for your students and staff.

Achieve the full potential of PreK–2 classrooms through proven best practices aligned to the PLC at Work® process. Use team tools and take collective responsibility to boost early childhood learning and development.

Acquire a set of wide-ranging techniques to decisively and efficiently address conflict with staff, students, parents, and other stakeholders. This resource can help educational leaders improve their communication skills and leadership strategies for overcoming staff resistance.

Put preK learners on the path to a great education by embracing the professional learning communities (PLC) process. Ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum for preschool, kindergarten, and special education students in blended classrooms.

Coaching teachers in schools is integral to supporting effective teaching methods. This teaching resource provides practical instructional coaching strategies for teachers and educators.

This book will help instructional leadership increase the collaborative learning of its teacher teams through a framework of collaborative coaching methods.

Rusty Taylor has been a professional educator since 1997, serving as a science teacher, middle school assistant principal, and principal at both the middle and high school levels.

Michael McDowell, EdD, has been a public school educator for the past 18 years serving in the roles of classroom teacher, academic and athletic coach, school principal, assistant superintendent of personnel and instruction, and superintendent.