educational leadership

Analyzes persistent myths about teaching and learning and offers ideas and strategies for dispelling them through creativity, fresh thinking, innovation, and authentic assessments.

A collection of essays that explore the best strategies for raising student achievement and supporting teacher initiative in the classroom.

Describes a study designed to determine the strength of the relationship between school district administrative leadership and student achievement.

Emphasizes collaborative leadership at the district, principal, team, and individual levels, and advocates the professional learning community (PLC) as the best environment for great teaching and leading; and gives suggestions for ongoing monitoring of student learning, ensuring effective instruction, responding when kids don't learn, and more.

Addresses all of the elements that are absolutely necessary for effective and enduring educational reform.

Discusses the importance of professional conversations in improving teaching and learning environments, covering power and leadership in schools, the big ideas that shape professional conversations, topics, conversation skills, and implementation issues, and including conversation activities.

Offers advice to leaders on how to make wise decisions and lead effectively in a culture of rapid change, and how to foster leadership in others, exploring the five themes of moral purpose, understanding change, developing relationships, knowledge building, and coherence making.

Leaders from more than sixty different schools share their strategies for improving school culture and creating an environment that promotes learning and collaboration.

Offers advice for successful educational leadership in at-risk schools and includes examples from over fifty schools that illustrate how the leaders at these schools motivated students and raised academic achievement.