Transforming school culture is some of the hardest work you’ll ever do, but the payoff is a school community where students and adults thrive together. With this book, authors Alexander McNeece and Bo Ryan bridge the gap between theory and practice, offering a practical, comprehensive how-to guide. Learn how to navigate tough conversations, strengthen collaboration, and build a healthy, sustainable school culture.K–12 school leaders can use this book to:

This book introduces a streamlined, five-phase instructional improvement cycle: Plan, Instruct, Measure Learning, Data Action, and Professional Learning. Each phase is thoughtfully aligned to support continuous growth, instructional clarity, and student achievement. The professional learning component centers on teacher choice and autonomy. Instructional coaches will find this model particularly valuable as a way to guide conversations and practices toward student-centered, high-im...

Meet any challenge, any day, with clarity, competence, and confidence. Written with the needs of urban educators in mind, this essential guide shares specific action steps and ready-to-use tools for supporting successful Professional Learning Communities at WorkⓇ. From scheduling teacher collaboration time to using data to inform high-quality instruction, author Bo Ryan delivers field-tested practices that lead to high levels of student achievement.Collaborative teams will:...

Updated Edition of Best Seller!"You won′t find a more practical, detailed guide to improving school effectiveness than is contained between the covers of this book!"Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean School of EducationUniversity of La VerneLa Verne, CA"Few books on school leadership have effectively brought together the best of educational theory and practice for school administrators as Elaine McEwan′s Seven Steps to Instructional Lea...

To ensure learning for all students, schools must first build support systems that guarantee excellence for all teachers. This resource examines the Hierarchy of Instructional Excellence, which prioritizes the order of teacher development for ultimate success. Each chapter begins with a teacher narrative and ends with a reflection tool, which challenges readers to apply chapter content to their work as education leaders.BenefitsLearn why teachers need to know their st...

In this powerful new book, James Rickabaugh, former superintendent and current director of the Institute for Personalized Learning (IPL), presents the groundbreaking results of the Institute’s half-decade of research, development, and practice: a simple but powerful model for personalizing students’ learning experiences by building their levels of commitment, ownership, and independence.Tried and rigorously tested in urban, suburban, and rural districts--and in different academic a...

This book's purpose is to provide a tool for career services personnel to deliver more effective, consistent career counseling. Its primary objective is to present a career counseling process model, including sequential stages and steps, along with a method (the Key Questions Technique) for successfully implementing the model. It is intended to serve as the bridge between the theoretical and the applied worlds of career counseling, and it is hoped that this book will increase the standards...

"Each of the 50 strategies explains what the strategy is, why it is important, and how it can be implemented. This book will be a tremendous resource for educators."—Cole Pugh, SuperintendentEagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD, TX"The strategies are a well-designed balance of central office support and site-based implementation that guides leaders through curriculum alignment, mastery learning, and resource allocation in this age of NCLB accountability."

How do educators build High Reliability Schools (HRS) and boost academic achievement? By implementing interdependent systems of operation and performance assessment for student-centered learning. A critical commitment to becoming an HRS is the PLC at Work™ process of collaborative learning and teaching. This user-friendly teaching resource focuses on: (1) a safe and collaborative culture, (2) effective teaching in every classroom, (3) a guaranteed and viable curriculum, (4) standards-refer...

Co-teaching-the practice of having special education and regular education teachers work together in inclusive classrooms-is one way to ensure that all students have equal access to challenging academic content. But the practice is a challenging one, requiring thoughtful planning and execution by cooperative classroom professionals. Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing inclusive learning environments, offers co-teachers structure and guidance in pursuing their goa...

Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing PLC. The powerful third edition of this comprehensive action guide updates and expands on new and significant PLC topics. Explore fresh strategies, models, and tips for hiring and retaining new staff, creating team-developed common formative assessments, implementing systematic interventions, and more.BenefitsBuild a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the ...

Are you overwhelmed by the challenges of managing Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in your family or educational setting?Pathological Demand Avoidance, a term originating from the autism spectrum, can be incredibly demanding and perplexing. But you can manage it effectively! If you are seeking practical, insightful strategies for understanding and supporting individuals with PDA, then this book is for you! This comprehensive guide will equip you with the tools a...