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A toolkit of field-tested strategies to help teacher leaders maximize their effectiveness.The teacher leaders who get the best results are the ones who explore the role's full potential, but it can be a challenge to get beyond a basic understanding of the responsibilities involved. The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) wants to make it easier.Unleashing Teacher Leadership presents best practices and tools that teacher leaders can use to unlock their own power and drive lasting instructional improvement across schools and districts. Current and future teacher leaders will learn how to* Examine their context as instructional experts.* Understand their approach to leadership and how to work with other leaders in their school.* Develop expertise in evidence-based instructional practice.* Support the implementation of high-quality curriculum.* Build effective learning environments and support colleagues' efforts to do the same.* Understand how to use data and assessment to support student learning and inform instructional practice.* Acquire coaching skills to help build colleagues' capacity.* Lead effective collaboration and scale teacher effectiveness.* Use their voice to influence decisions that affect students and fellow teachers.Along with guidance on these practices and skills, readers will get the perspectives of teacher leaders engaged in this work and acquire dozens of NIET-developed tools they can use to unleash the power of effective teacher leadership in their own school and district. This book is a copublication of ASCD and the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching.

Your school is a lot more than a center of student learning--it represents a self-contained culture with traditions and expectations that reflect its unique mission and demographics.In School Culture Rewired, education experts Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker offer strategies and advice for defining, assessing, and transforming your school's culture into one that is positive, productive, and actively working to enrich students' lives.Drawing from decades of research on organizational cultures and school leadership, the authors provide everything you need to optimize both the culture and climate of your school. In this revised and retooled second edition of their bestselling book, Gruenert and Whitaker* Explore the difference between school culture and school climate.* Show how to ensure developmentally appropriate culture change.* Contrast collaborative and toxic school cultures.* Address the symbiotic relationship between culture management and leadership.* Present a framework for pinpointing the type of culture you have, the type you want, and how to bridge the two.Though often invisible to the naked eye, a school's culture influences everything that takes place under its roof. Whether your school is urban or rural, proficient or struggling, School Culture Rewired helps you make sure its culture is guided by what's best for your students.

"Both a reflection tool for school leaders navigating difficult times and a guide to using emotional intelligence-EQ-while experiencing hardships, conflict, or division"--

"A look at the new essential thinking, collaboration, social, and leadership skills joining the standard school curriculum, with research-based and classroom-tested guidance on how to teach and develop them; how to observe and assess them; and how to report learning progress to students, parents, and families"--

In this transformative narrative, Carlos R. Moreno explores what it means to develop Leadership Soul by approaching educational leadership with love, care, and vulnerability.In Finding Your Leadership Soul, Carlos Moreno shares his journey from a challenging childhood in the Bronx, to teaching and advising at an innovative high school, to serving as co-executive director for Big Picture Learning, an organization that works to advance equitable, student-centered education. Along the way, he introduces several young Black and Latino men he had the privilege to work with--students who came from backgrounds similar to his and who helped shape his philosophy of leadership. He mines lessons learned from his connections with these young men and distills those lessons into practical application. His aim is to inspire others to join him on the effortful but indescribably vital quest to develop Leadership Soul.Leadership Soul draws on three principles--lead with love, lead with care, and lead with vulnerability--to counter conventional leadership archetypes that promote inequity and fail to meet the needs of all students, especially those marginalized by systemic prejudice and socioeconomic circumstances. The book is a powerful and poignant guide to engaging in inclusive, equitable leadership--to developing your own Leadership Soul.

In this thoughtful guide, Allison Rodman offers a comprehensive framework for supporting educators' social-emotional development and professional learning--both individually and as a collective.

With strategies that support high-quality assessment, tips and troubleshooting advice, and examples across subject areas and grade levels, Classroom Assessment Essentials is the only book K-12 teachers need to monitor and maximize student learning.

Chase Mielke provides tools and strategies that principals and other school leaders need to address teacher burnout and make a real systemic difference.

A game-changing resource that shows educators how to break free from the tyranny of lesson design templates and start streamlining curriculum, assessment, and planning to make learning experiences more immersive, interesting, and emotionally resonant.

Veteran instructional coaches A. Keith Young and Tamarra Osborne provide practical advice for trainers seeking high-leverage strategies for successful professional trainings.How do you see yourself as a trainer? Are you occasionally extraordinary, or do you flail about a bit? Are you connected to a helpful community of other trainers, or are you just starting out and feeling isolated and alone in your job? Do your workshops end with thunderous applause, or do you have nightmares about participants gazing into the middle distance and leaving with little more than they started with?Odds are, you've experienced multiple successes and failures--and that's OK! Regardless of your starting point or previous experiences, Training Design, Delivery, and Diplomacy outlines the essential components you need to build a powerful training program.Young and Osborne (coauthors of The Instructional Coaching Handbook) present dozens of strategies to help both novice and expert trainers avoid common (and not-so-common) training pitfalls, enabling the design and delivery of powerful sessions where folks walk away energized with new skills and understanding.They also introduce valuable tips for engaging participants and managing challenging behavior with diplomacy. Finally, they offer guidance on building and maintaining an effective train-the-trainer program and suggestions for conducting virtual activities in an online setting.If you feel a bit lost in your own workshop planning, this is exactly the little presentation skills book you've been looking for!

This book explores how to design instruction and structure classes so all students can authentically connect with the content, their learning, and one another.

The ultimate new teacher's guide to surviving and thriving in the classroom so that you can establish and improve your practice in meaningful ways.

An accessible, level-specific guide to creating schedules that amplify school priorities, support best practices in teaching and learning, heighten student engagement, and enhance equity.

A deep dive into the leadership values, commitments, and practices that help educational leaders create and sustain equitable schools and districts.

Today's teachers are responsible for a greater variety of learners with a greater diversity of needs than ever before. When you add in the ever-changing dynamics of technology and current events, the complexity of both students' and teachers' lives grows exponentially. Far too few teachers, however, successfully teach the whole class with the individual student in mind. In Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau tackle the issue of how to address student differences thoughtfully and proactively. The first half of the book focuses on what it means for a teacher to effectively lead a differentiated classroom. Readers will learn how to be more confident and effective leaders for and in student-focused and responsive classrooms. The second half of the book focuses on the mechanics of managing a differentiated classroom. A teacher who has the best intentions, a dynamic curriculum, and plans for differentiation cannot-and will not-move forward unless he or she is at ease with translating those ideas into classroom practice. In other words, teachers who are uncomfortable with flexible classroom management will not differentiate instruction, even if they understand it, accept the need for it, and can plan for it. Tomlinson and Imbeau argue that the inherent interdependence of leading and managing a differentiated classroom is at the very heart of 21st-century education. This essential guide to differentiation also includes a helpful teacher's toolkit of activities and teaching strategies that will help any teacher expand his or her capacity to make room for and work tirelessly on behalf of every student.

This book presents more than 200 actionable strategies organized around seven skills and dispositions that instructional coaches can use to help teachers reach their goals.

Explore the web of factors that influence your power as a teacher--and how you can better use it to foster student agency and empowerment.

This book helps teachers demystify and democratize data analysis, shows how data can be humanizing information, and helps educators embed equity in data work.

A field-tested, classroom-based approach for developing the critical thinking, social-emotional, problem-solving, and discussion skills students need to be good citizens and effective changemakers.

Best-selling author Eric Jensen examines how poverty and inequity hurt students and how teachers can help by infusing equity into every aspect of their practice.

Learn the most effective procedures and strategies to respond to negative behavior in nonpunitive ways and foster positive, prosocial student behavior that supports student learning.

Learn about Achievement Teams, a replicable collaborative process for teachers to pinpoint student learning gaps and identify and implement effective strategies to close those gaps.

Proven, practical ways to make high school a rewarding experience that equips students with the knowledge and skills that will fuel their progress in life.

This book explores the effects of trauma on newcomer students and presents stress-mitigating strategies that empower multilingual students as they transition to a new environment.

Although teachers interact with many people every day, rarely do they collaborate with other teachers or observe their colleagues at work in the classroom. That professional isolation can be troubling to new and veteran teachers alike. In this book, Pam Robbins describes how schools can implement a peer coaching program that serves as a professional support group. She describes peer coaching as a process in which two or more colleagues work together to reflect on current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; conduct research; or solve problems.Robbins describes how to get started, outlines logistical considerations, and offers coaching guidelines, conferencing strategies, and training suggestions. She shows how teachers can work together to create a support system that keeps morale high and helps everyone continue to improve their instructional skills.

"e;Every student is a genius,"e; declares author Thomas Armstrong, and an educator's most important job is to discover and nurture the "e;genius qualities"e; that all students were born with but that may no longer be obvious. Urging readers to look beyond traditional understandings of what constitutes genius, Armstrong describes 12 such qualities: curiosity, playfulness, imagination, creativity, wonder, wisdom, inventiveness, vitality, sensitivity, flexibility, humor, and joy. He cites research in various fields that supports this broader understanding of genius and explains how influences in the home, the popular media, and the school itself "e;shut down"e; the genius in students.Combining thoughtful insights and practical information, Armstrong offers guiding principles to help educators awaken genius in the classroom--beginning with awakening the genius in themselves. Readers will find dozens of suggested activities and helpful resources to provide "e;genius experiences"e; and create a "e;genial climate"e; in the classroom. In addition, suggestions for further study at the end of each section provide starting points for personal and professional reflection and growth. As it celebrates the potential brainpower waiting to be unlocked in classrooms everywhere, Awakening Genius in the Classroom inspires educators to look at their students from a different perspective and to reinvigorate their teaching with a new sense of excitement and possibility. The result, Armstrong concludes, could extend far beyond the classroom and transform not only our schools, but the entire world.Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.