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 Process Reflection
PowerPoint Presentation – Getting Started with Data Teams
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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 expected. [...]
July 19, 2009 - 12:27 pm
Tags: improvement
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When you’re trying to bring about a change, how and when do you decide if your efforts are working? If your efforts are either misdirected or inadequate, it’s important to know this quickly so you can make an adjustment.
If you’re trying to lose ten pounds, and your strategy is to eat less red meat and [...]
January 1, 2009 - 10:35 pm
Tags: Professional Development, Research
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There is no lack of research for those who seek to promote discussion of effective teaching. The issue is whether or not educators are prepared to accept their responsibilities to work together to become proficient consumers of that research. A professional learning community will fulfill that responsibility by ensuring that frequent and focused discussions on [...]
August 29, 2007 - 4:02 pm
Tags: Professional Development
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Jocelyn at the AWSP blog The Comp Book points out the relevance of Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero presentation for principals. Mann’s audience is typically the Silicon Valley crowd, but his advice for handling a high volume of email is equally applicable to school leaders.
At the 2007 WASA-AWSP Summer Conference, I gave a presentation entitled “Productivity [...]
May 15, 2007 - 6:20 pm
Tags: Change, Instructional Leadership
Posted in Books & Resources | 1 Comment
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 professionalism [...]
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 in overwhelming [...]
May 6, 2006 - 12:46 pm
Tags: Community Relations, Instructional Leadership, Staff Management
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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 [...]
July 2, 2009 - 2:54 pm
I really enjoyed your presentation at the conference. Your information was exactly what I needed to continue moving forward with powerful PLC’s working with student achievement data.
I would really like to access your powerpoint, but for some reason, it will not open for me. The templates opened fine, but not the powerpoint. Do you have any suggestions??
Thanks,
Janet
Principal, Roosevelt Elementary, Granger
July 4, 2009 - 6:30 pm
Hi Janet,
Thanks for coming to the presentation. If you download the PPT, and then try to open it, it should work, but let me know if it doesn’t. I’ve had trouble when using the “open” option, but it’s worked for me when I save the file and then open it.