educational leadership

Presents a comprehensive guide for developing adult and student goal-setting, and provides templates and forms for implementing SMART goals process into schools and classrooms.

This book offers a practical framework for improving student achievement centered on the five essential practices that decades of research have shown work best in schools.

A guide for principals who want to implement technology in their schools in order to improve student achievement and engagement, covering developing a technology leadership team, addressing cyber safety, implementing professional development, and assessing technical needs, students learning, and teacher performance; and including field-tested tools.

An exploration of change initiatives in schools that provides real life examples and advice on creating conditions for change and planning, implementing, and sustaining it.

A theoretical and practical guide to the teaching philosophy of differentiation, or individualized teaching, that covers such areas as staff development, systemic growth toward differentiation, and communicating with parents and the public about the philosophy.

Offers school leaders advice on running a school, with tips for evaluating teachers, securing funding, working with parents, managing meetings, and making a difference in the community.

Discusses the role of principals as instructional leaders, and offers information on how to best support the work of teachers, which translates into better student learning and achievement. Includes forms and resources on CD-ROM.

Introduces school leaders to the Standards Achievement Planning Cycle, a comprehensive protocol designed to help schools meet state standards, with fictional examples of the protocol's fundamentals and their impact.