Jeanne Spiller – författare

With foreword by Douglas Reeves

As a school leader, your influence and impact on students, staff, and families is beyond measure. Designed as a guide and reflective tool, Leading With Intention will help focus your invaluable everyday work. The authors provide in-depth advice and actionable steps for creating a highly effective school culture that supports collaborative leadership and teaching, evidence-based decision making, and the belief that students are the top priority.

Effective school leadership practices for building leadership capacity and furthering your professional development:

Contents:Introduction: Using Your Great Power as a LeaderChapter 1: Achieving Focus and Staying IntentionalChapter 2: Establishing and Maintaining OrganizationChapter 3: Building Shared LeadershipChapter 4: Using Evidence for Decision Making and ActionChapter 5: Prioritizing the StudentChapter 6: Leading InstructionChapter 7: Fostering CommunicationChapter 8: Developing Community and RelationshipsAfterword: Creating the FutureReferences and Resources

With foreword by Mike Mattos

Build a strong, highly impactful team committed to learning for all. Written by eight professional learning community (PLC) experts, this practical guide addresses the most common challenges educators face when building collaborative teams and working collaboratively. Each chapter offers a variety of templates, processes, and strategies to help your team resolve conflict, focus on the right work, and take collective responsibility for student learning.

Rely on this book to troubleshoot collaborative learning and team development in your PLC:

Contents:About the AuthorsForeword by Mike MattosIntroductionChapter 1: Organizing Schools Into Effective Collaborative TeamsChapter 2: Managing Team Members Who DisengageChapter 3: Establishing Clarity on What Students Need to Know and Be Able to DoChapter 4: Planning for Targeted and Effective Team InterventionsChapter 5: Working Together in a PLCChapter 6: Changing to a Positive School CultureChapter 7: Involving Nondepartmental Members in a PLCChapter 8: Supporting Singleton Teachers in Collaborative TeamsChapter 9: Dealing With Cautions, Conflicts, and CommitmentsReferences and ResourcesIndex

Confidently lead preK-5 literacy improvement in your professional learning community (PLC). Aligned to the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, this results-focused guide outlines how to take urgent action to address deficiencies and increase literacy rates. Learn how to bring a new level of focus to your teacher teams and help them do the important daily work of ensuring every student successfully reads and writes at or beyond grade level.

Contents:Introduction: Leaders of LiteracyChapter 1: Establish Clarity About Student Learning ExpectationsChapter 2: Examine Assessment Options for LiteracyChapter 3: Create a Learning Progression to Guide Instruction and AssessmentChapter 4: Develop Collective Understanding of Learning ExpectationsChapter 5: Respond to Student Data to Ensure All Students LearnChapter 6: Design Lessons Using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional FrameworkChapter 7: Plan for High-Quality Instruction in LiteracyChapter 8: Select Appropriate Instructional StrategiesChapter 9: Consider Equity in LiteracyEpilogueAppendix A: Reference Points, Templates, and ToolsAppendix B: List of Figures and TablesReferences and ResourcesIndex

Take an active role in achieving and sustaining literacy improvement in your PLC. An essential leadership resource in the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, this valuable guide outlines how to drive literacy instruction in a secondary setting. Learn how to support your collaborative teams, gather and analyze data, and ensure students can read and write at or beyond grade level.

This book offers leadership strategies for secondary literacy education that works:

Contents:Introduction: The Need for Literacy InstructionChapter 1: Confronting the Challenges of Leading LiteracyChapter 2: Starting With Listening, Learning, and Leading With ActionChapter 3: Leading With DataChapter 4: Leading Professional LearningChapter 5: Leading InstructionChapter 6: Leading InterventionChapter 7: Measuring Growth and SustainabilityEpilogueReferences and ResourcesIndex

This solutions-focused guide dives deep into personal leadership skills, encourages readers to reflect and grow, and offers practical strategies for weaving the thread of intentionality throughout your daily leadership practice. From building capacity among your staff to finding courage within yourself, you will discover meaningful content that not only provides food for thought but also inspires action.