Robert Eaker

Janel Keating

What would a learning community look like "if we really meant it" when we committed to ensuring the learning of each student? What would we consider good enough for our own children? In "Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom," the authors suggest that these two questions drive plc leaders to embed plc at Work[TM] practices in their entire district. With a focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership, you'll learn how to grow PLCs with concentrated direction and encouraging innovation at every level of the district. With many examples and reproducible tools, you'll see how effective district leaders, principals, and teams can work together to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Benefits include: (1) Explains the real work that districts must do to ensure that every school implements plc practices; (2) Explores how to build excitement and commitment to the plc mission; (3) Shows how to build shared knowledge of plc practices with school board members, principals, teams, individual teachers, and the broader community; (4) Provides strategies for district leaders to support and monitor the critical work of principals in creating collaborative teams; (5) Offers strategies and tools for principals to support and monitor the critical work of teacher teams focused on learning; and (6) Suggests strategies and tools to help teacher teams focus their collaborative work on student learning.

District Leadership for Growing Professional Learning Communities at Work

Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom

Jasmine K. Kullar

Get motivated by this collection of voices from women in leadership and their allies. Janel Keating and Jasmine K. Kullar gather a wide variety of educational leaders to focus on effective leadership practices as they relate to women, the roadblocks and complications women face in professional advancement, and strategies for lifting off the sticky floor and breaking the glass ceiling. Aspiring educational leaders and current leaders seeking professional growth will: Gain insight into the unique challenges faced by women in education as well as strategies for overcoming them Focus on the importance of mentoring and building up the next generation of female leaders Obtain tools to better advocate and self-market for the next career move Receive compassionate advice on implementing self-care strategies to avoid teacher burnout Cultivate confidence in women’s leadership and advance successful schools Contents: Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Cultivating the Leadership of Confidence Chapter 2: Facing Change Chapter 3: Leading With Compassion and Insight Chapter 4: Looking out the Window and in the Mirror Chapter 5: Rising Through the Ranks Chapter 6: Braving Difficult Conversations Chapter 7: Seeking Mentorship and Sharing Your Expertise Chapter 8: Preparing for Promotion Chapter 9: Taking Care of Yourself Chapter 10 Learning From Women Leaders

Insights, Inspiration, and Guidance to Grow as an Educator (Your blueprint on how to promote gender equality in educational leadership and end the broken rung once and for all.)

Janel Keating

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