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A must read for all in school leadership or aspiring to be.
Great for time management and focusing on the most important elements for change and student achievement
This book gives such insight into my work in recruiting leaders (especially since it's written by an Uncommon leader!), particularly around the superlevers for driving exceptional student results and the competencies that strong instructional leaders must possess.
This is a book all educators should read, especially leaders. If we want to expedite the rate in which teachers improve, this book provides a clear path.
Practical advice for improving schools. Really good tips about calendars and time management. I got the feeling it'd be better to read the DDI book first.
One of the best books about how to lead schools
Very informative. This book offers helpful advice on leadership in an easy to read format.
Great! Now I have the language and focus and support of what to do. I have always espoused that there are many, many, good things to do in order to help students learn more and transform challenged, troubled, under performing schools. This text has given me a framework in which to operate to start the conversation and work at my school with the key levers for informational turnaround.
A good grounding of educational practices that most school leaders would already have been aware of, but a good explanation as to the 'why and how' that makes these strategies effective.
Great book for new school leaders.
Terrific stuff if you're interested in the nuts and bolts of what can make a school great. I didn't agree with the author on every last detail, but I agreed with a ton of it and there's a wealth of great advice and great materials. I was talking about this book with some friends and we agreed -- it's not so much that the book has a ton of revolutionary ideas (though the great insights about how you coach teachers are certainly not commonplace), but it does codify/organize a lot of what makes a s...
The How To for school leaders to bring high quality instruction and a positive school climate to life. There is a DVD with video clips, presentations and other resources ready to use. A reader may know what is shared yet the book will inspire you to implement or rethink current practices as each chapter ends with reflective questions. Definitely worth your time!
Pragmatic advice for school leaders. Start with assessments, orient your culture around tangible results.
This is a book for principals to help them improve their schools. It comes from Uncommon Schools, an excellent charter network in the New York area.Things I Liked:1. Clear and easy-to-follow steps, especially on how to improve classroom practice,2. Focused on what matters most: student learning,3. Made me inspired to improve my coaching.Things I Didn't Like:1. Emphasis on testing. The author makes two solid counterarguments: (1) You don't have to assess by test, but you must begin with the asses...
Read in preparation for Board position--there were some helpful insights, such as the importance of principals guarding their time and using their time incredibly efficiently and wisely. Gained an appreciation of how difficult it is to pack in teacher observations, but also have integral observations are to a great school.
A must read for any school leader
If you are a school leader and you haven't read this, do it now! Your students can't wait for you to figure all this out on your own (or maybe not figure it out). Let's get ALL kids achieving the success they are capable of.
Lots applicable for general workplace use. Lots of tips on building successful habits, delivering feedback / information in concrete, actionable ways, and how to build a calendar (as a leader/manager) that gives you the most leverage. Will probably come back to this.
My big takeaway from this book is the calendar. I now put in teacher observations and debriefing meetings first, and then everything else. The interim assessment. system is not realistic in my district and state, nor is the 15 to 1 supervisor to teacher ratio for high schools. I am at 23 to 1, though other AP's at my school have as many as 40. Add student discipline to the list, and his calendar suggestions are impossible.Still, I agree with the levers in theory, and the extra focus on my calend...
Very insightful for school leaders, and possibly for managers or organizational leaders in general. Anecdotes are helpful in clarifying some concepts, and each chapter is broken down into a series of "big ideas" to establish the key takeaways. Not exactly brilliant or game-changing, but a lot of genuinely good ideas and strategies.
