School Leadership
Tools, resources and readings to support school leaders toward school improvement
Tools, resources and readings to support school leaders toward school improvement
Developing a Partnership Agreement Between a Coach and Principal
Tool from the National Staff Development Council
Partnership Agreement Map: a tool from Coaching Matters by Killion, Harrison, Bryan and Clifton
Tool 9.3 provides a template for a partnership agreement map for instructional coaches and principals
Video: Why Principals Must Support Coaches
By Jim Knight, Instructional Coaching Group
Don't be a hero
By John Hattie
Article in Leader in ASCL's Leader Magazine discussing the type of leadership needed to make change.
By Robert Eaker
The challenge of changing culture is the challenge of changing behavior.
By Ross Cooper
While there are many ways for a school or district to enhance its walkthrough procedures, reimagining the form used for collecting and sharing the information can be a valuable first step.
The Myth of Walkthroughs: 8 Unobserved Practices in Classrooms
By Peter DeWitt
In schools where walkthroughs are done correctly, teachers and leaders work together, have agreed upon or co-constructed the "look for" that should be taking place in the classrooms, and have dialogue around the feedback.
Eight Mind Frames
An Excerpt from John Hattie
The claim is that teachers and school leaders who develop these ways of thinking are more likely to have major impacts on student learning.
Do Leaders Really Need to Be Content Experts?
By Peter DeWitt
Although leaders should always be able to have knowledge of content being taught, there are far more important items to spend their time on in their daily practices.