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School leadership is messy, but coaching conversations offer an opportunity to step back from the demands of everyday work and focus on developing leadership capabilities.Although every coaching conversation is personalized and every context is unique, many school leaders face similar issues. In Embracing MESSY Leadership, Alyssa Gallagher and Rosie Connor--directors of global educational leadership nonprofit BTS Spark--synthesize the experience gained from coaching more than 20,000 school leaders around the world and highlight the universal challenges.Here, the authors unpack the key traits and mindsets of the MESSY leadership model, which embraces the human side of school leadership and provides practical strategies and tools that strengthen leadership capabilities. Coaching conversations that encourage leaders to adopt these specific mindsets will make it easier for them to lead in a complex world: - Meaning Making: Create a shared vision and engage others by collaborating more effectively.- Emotional Connection: Build deeper, more trusting relationships to give feedback and hold difficult conversations.- Sensing the Future: Think creatively and tackle entrenched school improvement problems through experimentation and innovation.- Seizing Momentum: Be proactive, gain control of how you prioritize your time, and embrace new ways of working.- Your Presence: Build confidence by identifying the barriers that hold you back and learning how to overcome them.Intentional coaching conversations tap into the potential power of school leaders and develop them to their fullest. Let Embracing MESSY Leadership structure those conversations and create school leaders that matter.

The role of the rural education leader is complex and demanding, but the rewards of serving in a rural school district are innumerable. Learn how to work through challenges and maximize success in this often overlooked and underresourced field.In the United States, the umbrella term "rural education" applies to diverse place-based contexts ranging from remote mountain communities to midwestern agricultural areas to southwestern mesas and beyond. One thing these varied environments have in common is the need for creative, solutions-oriented leadership.In The Resilient Rural Educator, award-winning superintendent Melissa A. Sadorf draws on her extensive experience teaching and leading in a rural school district in Arizona to identify issues unique to rural education and explore ways to capitalize on local resources to provide the best possible education for all students. Topics Sadorf investigates in depth include the following: - Juggling multiple district roles while maintaining efficiency and effectiveness- Recruiting and retaining staff, teachers, and administrators in a rural area- Connecting students and families with needed services and resources- Solving the challenges of limited access to utilities such as broadband internet- Navigating the role of the rural school as the hub of the community- Managing community partnerships for mutually beneficial resultsRural school districts serve approximately one in five students across the United States--students who deserve an equitable education. The insightful, innovative, and comprehensive strategies found in this book will help you and your district deliver that education to them.

Transform your chaotic classroom environment into a classroom of calm by fostering community, trust, and self-reflection.Calm is a choice. The key to a calm classroom isn't students who are obedient or quiet but students who feel empowered and safe. It starts with you as the teacher and your ability to foster an environment that supports emotional awareness, psychological safety and belonging, and connected relationships.In Cultivating a Classroom of Calm, mindfulness coach and former principal Meredith McNerney will help you promote student engagement and self-regulation using strategies grounded in neuroscience research. The book provides all the tools you need to - Discern the characteristics of a truly calm environment.- Explore the four dimensions of engagement.- Discover how trauma often affects students.- Balance empathy with accountability in the classroom.- Develop practices to regulate emotions and stress.As you explore how the brain can learn to make calm and responsible decisions, the book will guide you in building a personalized plan to cultivate calm for your students and yourself.When you understand your own basic emotional and relational needs, you can instill your own calmness and help your students learn how to do the same, cultivating a classroom environment in which every learner can grow.

Educators must achieve cultural proficiency to overcome unconscious biases and tap the limitless potential of their school communities.In The Consciously Unbiased Educator, cultural proficiency expert and former teacher Huda Essa helps educators uncover and surmount the limitations of unconscious biases--stereotypes that form below the surface of our awareness, making them harder to detect. Although these biases aren't formed with the intent to do harm, if they are not interrupted, they contribute to negative outcomes for students.With warmth and wisdom, Essa urges educators to move past any reflexive defensiveness or shame that comes with facing these biases to take a journey that will ultimately empower and benefit the entire school community. Filled with rich, clarifying insights drawn from Essa's own experience as well as comprehensive research findings, this inspirational resource pushes readers' thinking to new levels.To aid in examining these biases, this thought-provoking yet highly approachable book offers - Practical ideas, strategies, and tools, such as a personal index enabling readers to gather and organize learning in the most resonant, meaningful way possible.- Thoughtful discussion of essential concepts and terms, including the cultural proficiency continuum, privilege, culturally responsive practices, exclusionary behaviors, and more.- Numerous exercises that encourage readers to activate their critical consciousness and use the author's 3Rs (review, reflect, resolve) method to respond to real-life scenarios.- Deep reflection prompts to foster mindful contemplation and gain confidence for engaging in productive discourse about sensitive topics.Editable PDF versions of the prompts and resources within the book are also available to enhance and extend opportunities for reflection and learning. Readers will build the knowledge and skills they need to ""become their own manual"" and apply their learning off the page.Educators can change the status quo. If we want our students to remember us as educators who touch hearts, open minds, and awaken souls, we must boldly address the topic of bias.

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.

Conflict is certain to show up in any school, so how do you as the leader know how to respond or when to intervene?Disagreements, friction, and even outright hostility are a common and unavoidable result of people working together, and not all conflict is necessarily bad; it can also provide an opportunity to learn and grow. Whether the situation involves students, parents, or staff, school leadership expert Jen Schwanke has specific advice to help you navigate conflict within a three-step cycle of decision making: * Anticipate and recognize different patterns of conflict.* Analyze the underlying causes and effects of any given conflict.* Act--or choose not to act--in a way that best helps the school.Managing conflict is a critical leadership skill that you can learn to accept, embrace, and make a healthy and productive part of your role. The Principal's Guide to Conflict Management describes the mindset skills you need and provides scenarios, strategies, and reflection activities to help you manage all kinds of conflict with clarity and confidence.

"Every Connection Matters guides teachers through the ins and outs of building, maintaining, and restoring the six type of relationships they need to navigate in a school"--

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.

"Two award-winning school leaders of color leaders lay out what teachers, principals, superintendents, central office staff, and community members can do to make U.S. schools more equitable in both policy and practice"--

"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 strengthening professional and organizational capacity throughout the learning organization"--

"This comprehensive book covers the foundational concepts and practical skills necessary for teachers to be successful with classroom assessment"--

"How educators can break free of cumbersome curriculum and lesson planning processes by embracing a streamlined, narrative-based approach that promotes deeper and more engaging learning experiences"--

"Chase Mielke provides the best tools and strategies principals and other school leaders need to address teacher burnout and make a real systemic difference"--

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 is about how to design instruction and structure classes so all students can authentically connect with the content, their learning, and one another"--

"A guide for school leaders who wish to provide a supportive, nurturing environment for educators of color for the benefit of all members of the school community"--

"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 experience-based and example-filled guide to creating strategic school schedules-ones that amplify district priorities, support best practices in teaching and learning, heighten student engagement, and ensure equity, all in a cost-effective manner"--

"Six principles for disrupting inequity at its roots and becoming a transformative equity leader"--

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.

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.

The Instructional Coaching Handbook is not a new model of coaching. It addresses common hiccups that prevent productive coaching conversations from happening in the first place. From their thousands of annual school visits, the authors recognize that coaches frequently confront similar challenges when helping educators address seven skills and dispositions - and they devote a chapter to each: Efficacy, Equity, Academic instruction, Social-emotional instruction, Openness to feedback, Lesson planning, Team membership. Each chapter features scores of practical, research-based strategies with a history of success. Mix and match them according to your leadership style, the needs of the student or teacher, and the demands of the curriculum. In addition to implementation stories that show what the strategies look like in a range of classroom settings, this handbook includes effective tools and resources that help guide you through the thorniest of coaching conversations. All you have to do is dive into an appropriate chapter; scan for ideas that match your style, the educators you coach, and your unique context; and start making a difference!

"A practical and systematic approach to deepening student engagement, promoting a growth mindset, and building a classroom culture that truly supports thinking and learning"--

A one-stop shop for educators to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate workshops, committees, teams, and study groups.

Preparing students to participate fully in tomorrow's world demands that we nurture their global competence, and this book shows teachers how to do just that.

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.