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Leverage Leadership. By Paul Bambrick-Santoyo In Leverage Le adership Bambrick-Santoyo meticulously shows the steps that great school leaders take to promote effective teaching and transform lackluster or even good schools into great schools.

Leverage Leadership

The book’s companion DVD includes 30 video clips of top-tier leaders in action, offering a path for any leader that wants to replicate the results garnered by schools in Leverage Leadership. The author deconstructs the myths behind the work of the modern-day principal and offers concrete guidelines for a new paradigm in school leadership. After years of running his own high-performing schools and studying the habits of other successful school leaders, Bambrick-Santoyo has settled on seven crucial levers that great principals employ that ensure schools produce the best results.

Now Playing Data-Driven Instruction: Leading Analysis Meetings Beth Verrilli teaches English at North Star Academy College Preparatory High School and is Chair of the English Department. School Improvement Grants - Online Tools. Io's Instructional Management System (IMS) Evaluating the Classroom Environment Educators may want to work together in groups to brainstorm the characteristics of an effective standards-based classroom and communicate these in a teacher checklist format.

io's Instructional Management System (IMS)

Click on the link below for a tool to use as a starting point. Evaluating the Classroom Environment: Checklist for an Effective Standards-Based Classroom Evaluating Instruction and Learning: Student Tool Educators may want to view and use the tool below to encourage students to evaluate instruction and their learning. Evaluating Instruction and Learning: Student Response Tool Evaluating Student Learning: Student Tool Educators may want to view and use the tool below to encourage students in the process of self-assessment. Teacher and Principal Leadership Evaluation. Jane Kise » Instructional Coaching. Pdfdownloadfree. Academyforinstructionalcoaching - Pages and Files.

Jane Kise » Resources. TEDxTalk: Neuroscience, Mathematics and Jungian Type This 18-minute Ted Talk, was presented by Jane Kise at TEDxEnola, February 1, 2012, summarizes her research on how student type preferences influence their approaches to fractions tasks.

Jane Kise » Resources

Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Conference Presentations NCSM 2013, New Orleans, LA NCSM 2014 Teacher Effectiveness AND Growth Leading Learning for the Future Conference, Queensland, AU Morning Keynote: Leading & Coaching for Substantive, Sustainable Change Breakout Session: Communicating So Everyone Hears Your Intended Message Evening Keynote: Ensuring Student Success through Distributed Leadership Session Handouts Learning Forward 2013 Summer Conference Leveraging Differences in Education Beliefs Slides and Handout APTi 2013 Keynote Address: Top 10 Tips from 20 Years of Type.

Templates and Worksheets from Mind Tools. Many Mind Tools articles have accompanying PDF templates or worksheets.

Templates and Worksheets from Mind Tools

You can download these from the relevant articles, or access all of them below. Team Management Tools Strategy Tools SWOT Analysis Worksheet Map out the strengths and weaknesses, and the opportunities and threats faced by an organization, group, product, or service. McKinsey 7S Worksheet Analyze the "soft" and "hard" elements of your organization as a starting point to improving its effectiveness. Ansoff Matrix Worksheet (corporate version) Identify the strategies available to your organization in existing and new markets, with existing and new products. Ansoff Matrix Worksheet (personal version) Apply this classic strategy tool to your career, by analyzing options involving industries and skills. PEST Analysis Worksheet Understand a situation more fully by setting down the Political, Economic, Social and Technological factors at play. Problem Solving RCA Worksheet Work through these steps to find the cause of a problem.

Collective Voices. Ripples of hope.

Collective Voices

The stuff dreams are made of. The stuff that tears down walls. The stuff of heroes; you know, people who actually do something for humanity expecting nothing in return. Heroes! Too strong a word for some? Walls are all around us. No hint of them in the newspapers or on the evening news. Fear not. What is a ‘trimtab’? A trim tab is, at first, a nautical reference — a small flap on the trailing edge of the main rudder. We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds. Powered by Google Docs. We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds. Resources. Recommended Reading List Although many books have impacted my life and leadership, the following have each made a specific contribution.

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Of course, the impact of a book is always determined by its content. However, timing can also be a major factor. The following books have had a significant impact on me at different points in my leadership journey. GLS_secret-of-teams_assessment. GLS_secret_whatgreatleadersknow_assessment. GLS_greatleadersgrow_assessment. Welcome to The Ken Blanchard Companies.