The School Leadership Playbook E-Book

Jean Desravines

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 144

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

A proven framework for whole-school improvement The School Leadership Playbook is a practical guide for education leaders looking to push their school's and students' achievement to the next level. Developed by renowned leadership preparation program New Leaders, the Transformational Leadership Framework focuses on the five categories that drive a school's success: Learning and Teaching, School Culture, Talent Management, Operations and Systems, and Personal Leadership. This book illustrates how each of these factors contributes to breakthrough gains, and outlines a plan for implementing changes in your own school. You'll learn how to accurately diagnose the current state of your school's academics and culture and create an action plan for the year ahead. The TLF is grounded in the latest research and case studies of the highest-gaining turnaround schools, and shows you the specific actions you can take to attract, retain, and support high-performing teachers; improve school culture; successfully involve parents and the community; and ultimately drive student success. New Leaders developed the UEF to pinpoint what schools achieving significant student academic gains were doing, and how they were doing it. This book provides a practical breakdown of the framework to help you begin leading these changes in your own school. * Ensure rigorous goal- and data-driven teaching and learning * Build and manage a high-performance faculty aligned to the school's vision * Implement effective and efficient operations and systems * Model the tone you would like to see from students and teachers school-wide By matching the needs of the school to effective principal actions and school practices, leaders can create a plan for transformational change.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

About the Authors

About New Leaders

Leadership for School Improvement

Our Experience: Developing Transformational Leaders for High-Poverty Schools

The Transformational Leadership Framework

What Is the TLF?

Chapter 1: Learning and Teaching

LEVER 1: Aligned curriculum

LEVER 2: Classroom practices and instruction

LEVER 3: Data

LEVER 4: Student-centered differentiation

Chapter 2: School Culture

LEVER 1: Shared mission and values

LEVER 2: Relationships

LEVER 3: Family and community engagement

Chapter 3: Talent Management

LEVER 1: Recruitment and onboarding

LEVER 2: Instructional leadership team

LEVER 3: Performance monitoring and evaluation

LEVER 4: Professional learning and collaboration

Chapter 4: Operations and Planning

LEVER 1: Goal setting and implementation

LEVER 2: Time management

LEVER 3: Budget

LEVER 4: Community and district relations

Chapter 5: Personal Leadership

Structure

Levers in the Personal Leadership Category

LEVER 1: Belief-based and goal-driven leadership

LEVER 2: Equity-focused leadership

LEVER 3: Interpersonal leadership

LEVER 4: Adaptive leadership

LEVER 5: Resilient leadership

Conclusion

Appendix: Methodology of the New Leaders Research Study

Glossary

Bibliography and Works Cited

Index

End User License Agreement

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JEAN DESRAVINES | BENJAMIN FENTONwith Lori Taliaferro Riddick

THE SCHOOLLEADERSHIPPLAYBOOK

A FIELD GUIDE FOR DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT

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FIRST EDITION

About the Authors

Jean Desravines serves as chief executive officer of New Leaders, an innovative school reform organization that develops and supports highly effective leaders to turn around the nation's high-need public schools. Jean has more than fifteen years of leadership experience in education and community development, with a primary focus on improving outcomes for kids in underserved communities. Before joining New Leaders, Jean served as senior counselor to the chancellor of New York City's public school system, the executive director for the Office of Parent and Community Engagement, chief of staff to the senior counselor for Education Policy, and director for Community Relations at the New York City Department of Education.

Jean serves as a board member for 100Kin10, his alma mater St. Francis College, and St. Benedict's College Prep in Newark, New Jersey. He served on Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Education Reform Commission and was named to Forbes's “Impact 30,” recognizing the world's leading social entrepreneurs. Jean is a graduate of St. Francis College and New York University, where he was the recipient of the Dean's Scholarship.

Benjamin Fenton is cofounder and chief strategy officer at New Leaders. A recognized expert on principal quality, Ben leads New Leaders' human capital consulting initiatives, helping states and districts develop new policies and practices for principal evaluation and principal effectiveness. He is also responsible for the ongoing implementation of the New Leaders research agenda and programmatic evaluation. He co-led the development of New Leaders' Transformational Leadership Framework, identifying the school practices and principal actions found in high-gaining, high-poverty public schools.

Ben is also a founding board member of Teach Plus, a nonprofit dedicated to retaining and developing great teachers who improve student achievement. He formerly worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, focusing on marketing and operational efficiency. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School, where he received the Fiske award for excellence in teaching in the Economics Department.

Lori Taliaferro Riddick is executive director of policy and practice services at New Leaders. Lori leads New Leaders' district-level human capital consulting initiatives, helping districts develop and implement new approaches to principal evaluation and principal effectiveness. In addition to developing principal evaluation models, Lori facilitates professional learning experiences, leads communities of practice, and provides coaching for assistant superintendents to improve the quality of principal support to all schools in the district. Lori also supports turnaround principals who are tasked with improving student outcomes.

Lori led New Leaders' Transformational Leadership Framework qualitative research project and co-led the development of the subsequent framework, identifying the school practices and principal actions found in high-gaining, high-poverty public schools. Lori is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in urban studies and an MS in education.