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The Principal as Instructional Leader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

The Principal as Instructional Leader

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Supportive Learning Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

The Supportive Learning Environment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This entry in the James H. Stronge Research-to-Practice Series focuses on the characteristics of teachers who create supportive learning environments for their students. By conveying a sense of immediacy, credibility, and caring, they communicate to students in both verbal and nonverbal ways that are essential to cultivating a positive and productive learning community. In this book, Stronge, Grant, and Hindman provide a comprehensive overview of the qualities of a supportive teacher. They offer a bridge between research-based theories and practical classroom applications, with templates, planning forms, and other reproducibles. The authors help teachers move toward establishing a learning environment that contributes to effective instructional practices. Topics include: engaging students and their families, effective communication, student ownership of the learning environment, and much more.

The Coach Approach to School Leadership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

The Coach Approach to School Leadership

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-22
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  • Publisher: ASCD

In The Coach Approach to School Leadership, Jessica Johnson, Shira Leibowitz, and Kathy Perret address a dilemma faced by many principals: how to function as learning leaders while fulfilling their evaluative and management duties. The answer? Incorporating instructional coaching techniques as an integral part of serious school improvement. The authors explain how principals can * Master the skill of “switching hats” between the nonjudgmental coach role and the evaluative supervisor role. * Expand their classroom visits and combine coaching with evaluation requirements. * Nurture relationships with teachers and build a positive school culture. * Provide high-quality feedback to support t...

Ebony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Ebony

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1997-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Executive Skills for Busy School Leaders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

Executive Skills for Busy School Leaders

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Prime yourself for all aspects of school leadership with effectiveness strategies from educators and experts Chris Hitch and David Coley. This comprehensive and practical handbook offers research-based tools to help you fulfill all of your leadership responsibilities on time and with laser-like focus. The authors also share tips from their combined experiences as elementary, middle, and high school principals. Executive Skills for Busy School Leaders provides examples of best practices from the business and non-profit sectors and applies them specifically to schools. Topics range from managing time and leading high-performance teams to monitoring your budget and implementing a school improvement plan. Strategies include finding time for instructional leadership, diagnosing the strengths and needs of your school, leading a multi-generational faculty, data-driven decision making, and managing high-, middle- and under-performing individuals.

Great Assistant Principals and the (Great) Principals Who Mentor Them
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Great Assistant Principals and the (Great) Principals Who Mentor Them

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Written for principals and assistant principals to read and reflect on together, this book describes the most common challenges facing today’s assistant principals – and provides practical solutions. Authors Carole Goodman and Christopher Berry examine how principals and assistant principals can develop the kinds of relationships that serve to meet the needs of students, staff, and parents. Contents include: The Difference between the Principal’s Job and the Assistant Principal’s Job, The Assistant Principal Role: What the Students Need, The Assistant Principal Role: What the Staff Needs, and Principal and Assistant Principal Communication: The Honest High-Wire Act.

Leadership for Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Leadership for Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-03
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  • Publisher: ASCD

In this revised edition, Carl Glickman and coauthor Rebecca West Burns synthesize their decades of experience in teacher education and supervision into a comprehensive guide to supporting teacher growth and student learning. Embedded in every page are the essential knowledge, skills, approaches, and methods that leaders need to drive instructional improvement. Official school leaders and classroom teachers striving to be the best will learn how to put the school's goals and priorities into practice by * Selecting the right structure for differentiating teacher professional learning to improve outcomes for students; * Implementing the technical and procedural skills needed to support teacher ...

Evaluating What Good Teachers Do
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 157

Evaluating What Good Teachers Do

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book is based on author James H. Stronge's 20-plus years of consulting with school districts and other educational organizations in designing, piloting, and training educators in the use of teacher-performance evaluation systems. Its primary purpose is to help both teachers and their evaluators collect more comprehensive and accurate assessment data for judging teacher effectiveness. The author provides field-tested teacher-evaluation systems based on performance standards which include data collection tools and performance appraisal rubrics.

Planning, Instruction, and Assessment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Planning, Instruction, and Assessment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This entry in the James H. Stronge Research-to-Practice Series focuses on specific strategies teachers can use to improve the quality of their instruction. Studies have shown teacher quality to be the top indicator of student achievement, with the effects of good teachers apparent even as students move on to successive grades. In this book, Grant, Hindman, and Stronge explore the relationship between teacher effectiveness and student learning. They provide a bridge between research-based theories and practical classroom applications. Templates, planning forms, and other reproducibles help teachers make a noticeable impact on student success using proven techniques and practices. Topics include tiered lessons, using assessment data, and much more.

Effective Teachers=Student Achievement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Effective Teachers=Student Achievement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Research has shown that there is no greater influence on a student's success than the quality of his or her teacher. This book presents the research findings which demonstrate the connection between teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Author James Stronge describes and explains the value-added teacher-assessment research that has emerged in the past decade and demystifies the power and practices of effective teachers.