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Leading from the Trenches

School leaders know that instructional leadership is a crucial aspect of education. However, many of those leaders lack the knowledge and credibility to lead this work. Leaders must be empowered to enter into and guide instructional conversations while building leadership capacity of their teachers in the process. It is easy for administrators to get caught …

Hack Learning Series 21 - Hacking Instructional Design

Whether you want to make subtle changes to your instructional design or turn it on its head—Hacking Instructional Design provides a toolbox of options. Discover just-in-time tools to design, upgrade, or adapt your instructional practices. Curriculum design experts Michael and Elizabeth Fisher show you how to: Prioritize and break apart standards Set targets and demonstrations …

Hardball Leadership

How do you sufficiently progress beyond the status quo when an entire rural community views the status quo as sufficient progress? Educating children in poverty remains the most important educational challenge of our time. What few people know is this: the rate of child poverty in our nation's rural communities is actually higher than it …

Kids Deserve It! Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking

The Art and Science of Leading

Effective leadership reflects both art and science. Background, theory, and knowledge is the science. Appropriate and effective application is the art. Conceptual and practical, this concise, easy to understand book is an excellent resource. The intent of The Art and Science of Leading is to support those educators who work to realize the mission of …

Better Together

Better Together is a guide to the most important innovation in today’s education - school networks. Innovative schools that belong to networks are organized around a shared approach to teaching and learning, common tools, and collaborative learning opportunities for principals and classroom teachers. The authors—two noted education experts—detail the best practices and strategies for working …

We Need To Do Better

Child Law, Policy, and the School Superintendent

This handbook has been designed to be utilized by administrators currently in the field, those new and seasoned administrators who may be beginning their first year as a chief school administrator, and beyond. Each chapter provides the reader with insight into an integral process pertinent to a topic paramount to the success of any leader.

The Prize

Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools — and to solve the education crisis in every city in America — it looked like a …

School Culture Recharged

Why do some schools succeed while others struggle? Why do policies and programs often fail to deliver what they promise? In this follow-up to School Culture Rewired, Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker offer practical advice and strategies that help you build positive energy to reinvigorate your school's culture and staff.