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Get it between 2025-01-01 to 2025-01-08. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
Finalist-Association of Educational Publishers 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms. Benefits: Explore the authors' expertise and many years of experience in one comprehensive volume on leadership. Gain proven strategies for school improvement based on the most up-to-date research. Focus on how district and school leaders create the conditions to support the collaborative culture of a professional learning community (PLC). Examine the specific work that teachers undertake as members of PLCs. Contents: Chapter 1: School Improvement Means People Improvement Chapter 2: The District's Role in Supporting the PLC Process Chapter 3: The Principal's Role in Leading a Professional Learning Community Chapter 4: Creating the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning Community Chapter 5: Developing a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum Chapter 6: Ongoing Monitoring of Student Learning Chapter 7: Ensuring Effective Instruction Chapter 8: Responding When Kids Don't Learn Chapter 9: Leadership Is an Affair of the Heart