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Justin Baeder on principal performance & productivity
Starting Confused: How Leaders Start When They Don’t Know Where to Start
In this Phi Delta Kappan article, Barry C. Jentz and Jerome T. Murphy of Harvard explain how a new educational leader can “hit the ground learning” rather than “hit the ground running,” in order to become established as a leader and avoid making hasty decisions.
Starting Confused: How Leaders Start When They Don’t Know Where to Start
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Physics Envy: Why “Best Practices” Don’t Scale Up Well (and What to Do About It)
November 29, 2009 - 2:13 pm
Tags: best practices, Instructional Leadership, science
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Is education a science, and if so, what kind of science? What implications does this have for instructional leadership? We typically think of physics as the ideal science – it is consistent, universal, and predictable. An experiment conducted in France can be replicated in Mexico or the United States, and the same results can be [...]
Getting Started with Data Teams Presentation – WASA Summer Conference 2009
June 30, 2009 - 4:37 pm
Tags: conferences, data teams, improvement, instruction, Instructional Leadership, presentation, Professional Development, teacher collaboration
Posted in Books & Resources | 2 Comments
Linked below are the documents from my presentation at the WASA/AWSP 2009 Summer Conference in Spokane, WA. Use the contact form if you have any questions or would like more information. Thanks to everyone who participated. Data Team Cycle Template Data Team Cycle Process Reflection PowerPoint Presentation – Getting Started with Data Teams
Courting Middle Class Parents
December 26, 2007 - 4:06 pm
Tags: Community Relations, Ethics
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Today’s Seattle Times has an article by education report Emily Heffter on the increasing emphasis the Seattle School District is placing on middle-class families. Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, however, says the district is not actively trying to recruit parents away from private schools: Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson said improving the quality and rigor at schools may draw [...]
Results Now Chapter 1: The Buffer
May 15, 2007 - 6:20 pm
Tags: Change, Instructional Leadership
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Schmoker says in Results Now that the single greatest obstacle to major improvement in our schools is what he calls “the buffer.” The buffer is, simply put, the unspoken norm in the education profession that no one will question what teachers teach, or how well they teach it. The buffer is ostensibly a matter of [...]
Results Now: Introduction
May 15, 2007 - 6:10 pm
Tags: Instructional Leadership
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From the Introduction to Mike Schmoker’s Results Now: …historic improvement isn’t about “reform” but something much simpler: a tough, honest self-examination of the prevailing culture and practices of public schools, and a dramatic turn toward a singular and straightforward focus on instruction. p. 2 …most – though not all – instruction is mediocre or worse…educators [...]
Anonymous Education Bloggers Must Balance Freedom and Prudence
January 29, 2007 - 8:02 pm
Tags: Professional Ethics, Staff Management
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The Houston Chronicle reports on a number of teachers who blog, a trend that they describe as largely anonymous. Some teachers blog for “free therapy,” while others blog to defend public education, and still others use the medium to interact with other educators. Of course, blogging about work is a complicated matter for those who [...]
How to Minimize Reactionary Reply-Alls
October 21, 2006 - 1:09 pm
Tags: Staff Management
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If you are sending an email to a group, and want to discourage people from sending reactionary responses to the whole group, you can use the BCC field in your email application: In Outlook, create a new message. Click View -> BCC Field Enter your own email address in the TO: field Enter the group [...]
Seattle Alliance of Black School Educators 1st Annual Conference Oct 13-14, 2006
June 24, 2006 - 2:09 pm
Tags: Achievement Gap, Community Relations, Events
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An Educational Summit for Raising Standards and Closing Gaps: A Community Action Plan To help African American students experience success in school districts and meet the challenges of the state graduation requirements, Seattle Alliance of Black School Educators in partnership with Seattle Public Schools, Pearson Scott Foreman, National Urban Publishing Companies, and other community organizations [...]
