Tag: Executive Leadership

Valuing Your Role as a Learner

School leadership is a demanding job. You’re expected to stay current on the latest information impacting students and their learning, on the law and its implications for your school, and on curricular and instructional innovations.
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Hyper-calendaring

Hyper-calendaring is a methodical approach to integrating planning structures that facilitates elevated levels of collaboration for all key stakeholders into a uniform, systematic calendaring system that functions as a systemic process within a school campus or organization to increase productivity and minimize distractions.
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When Leaders Share Best Practices, Leaders Grow Together

One of the most powerful professional development opportunities is when leaders present their best practices to other leaders. Leadership is often described as a lonely role, but it does not have to be.
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Motivating Teachers: Challenges and Concerns

Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn examine two of the biggest challenges we hear from school leaders: how to deal with resistance and how to model continuous learning.
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Improving Literacy Among African American Students: Strategies for Elementary School Leaders

Research indicates that the length of time a principal spends in their current position can lead to higher student achievement outcomes.
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The Importance of Connection

In a video discussing children who have suffered trauma, the speaker asserted, “Every kid is one caring adult relationship away from being a success story.”
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Reinforcing Teacher Passivity

We all know individuals and groups who choose passive responses in their daily work. For the record, we’ve also admitted that the system does much to engender such compliance.
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Politics and Education Don’t Mix

An old adage of professionalism was to avoid politics at all costs. Even 20 years ago, it was still “unseemly” for teachers or administrators to be too politically active… political action is now an expectation of survival.
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Trust: The Key to Motivating Your Teachers

Every time Ron taught a course about the principalship, he started the semester by asking students to describe a good school leader, the sort of person teachers and others would want to lead their school.
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Surround Teachers with Support

Teachers crave support, both tangible and intangible. Leaders must provide 360 support—assessing the needs of teachers individually as well as a group.
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