school improvement programs

"Provide school leaders at all levels with simple, practical, easily learned and applied coach-like conversational techniques that will lead to open and reflective conversations with all members of the school community"--OCLC.

"WIN Time: Fearlessly Transforming Your School is an action-driven, practical leadership playbook and roadmap that provides a proven path to success so you can create your own WIN system in your school. The authors breakdown the steps of defining WIN and "what" and "why" you need to provide interventions and enrichments for your students. WIN Time will equip you with ideas and inspire you to take action to transform your campus. These very ideas transformed our school from low-performing to being awarded the prestigious National Blue Ribbon by the U.S. Department of Education for our progress in closing the achievement gaps. This book is designed to be a practical based approach for leadership, designed around a proven learner-centered approach. The proven learner-centered "What I Need" invervention system is outlined in detail within the book and sets the stage for how this book is designed for your leadership solutions. Lessons learned from seasoned administrators are discussed and outlined throughout the book to help the reader reflect and apply scenarios to their own schools. Each chapter concludes with a problem-based scenario that allows the learner to walk through a provided roadmap to help design a solution to an issue in their school. This book will hopefully be "What You Need" to spark a thoughtful solution to an area of struggle on your leadership journey. True professional growth is acquired through reflection. We feel this book provides the spark for reflection in some common areas where we have struggled in our leadership experience."--back cover.

"Learn how educators combine research with proven practices and actions to disrupt the adverse effects of poverty on students' academic achievement and lives"--.

Data-driven instruction is the philosophy that schools should focus on two simple questions: how do you know if are students learning? And when they are not, what do you do about it?.

"... a guide for action that helps educators close the knowing-doing gap as they transform their schools into professional learning communities (PLCs)"--Back cover.

"This book provides a framework for readers to begin their own implementation It gives them an understanding of the current research on SEL and systems change and contains links to other resources to continue the process. It also provides questions to prompt reflection for change agents and their teams to consider during implementation. Finally, it provides the reader with real-world experiences. School teams can use the information to design professional development and track their progress. Tools to collect evidence of the decision-making process that schools have made during implementation will be integrated throughout the book"--.

Presents a plan to transform the future of teaching and public education that demands more of the profession and the systems that support it.

Organized around the school calendar, the ten chapters in "A principal's guide to leadership in the teaching of writing" walk principals through the month-by-month demands involved in organizing and implementing whole-school reform in the teaching of writing. From back cover.

Presents an overview of how school cultures function, and discusses four "types" of educators--believers, fundamentalists, tweeners, and survivors--and describes how to maintain a balanced dynamic between them to improve the school's culture and increase the learning potential for students.