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 in which leaders and teachers collaborate, make evidence-based decisions, and most importantly, believe students are the top priority.
Effective school leadership practices for your professional development:
- Explore eight interrelated areas of school leadership that will assist you in becoming a more synergistic leader.
- Explore four concepts essential to your work in leading schools: collaboration, a shared leadership model, evidence-based decision-making, and a focus on learning.
- Learn how to enhance student achievement in your school or district with the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ (PLC) process.
- Acquire 40+ specific instructional leadership actions you can put into practice immediately.
- Access leadership reflection questions and downloadable reproducibles designed to support your educational leadership development.
Contents:
Introduction: Using Your Great Power as a Leader Chapter 1: Achieving Focus and Staying Intentional Chapter 2: Establishing and Maintaining Organization Chapter 3: Building Shared Leadership Chapter 4: Using Evidence for Decision Making and Action Chapter 5: Prioritizing the Student Chapter 6: Leading Instruction Chapter 7: Fostering Communication Chapter 8: Developing Community and Relationships Afterword: Creating the Future References and Resources
Jeanne Spiller is assistant superintendent for teaching and learning for Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 in Illinois. Her work focuses on implementation of the Common Core State Standards. She guides the process of unpacking, powering, scaling, and pacing the CCSS for English language arts for numerous schools, districts, and teacher teams.
Jeanne has served as a classroom teacher, building staff developer, team leader, and middle school assistant principal. She is president of the Illinois affiliate of Learning Forward.
Jeanne earned a master's degree in educational teaching and leadership from St. Xavier University and a master's degree in educational administration from Loyola University.
To learn more about Jeanne's work, visit livingtheplclife.com, and follow her on Twitter @jeeneemarie.
Karen Power is a consultant and former teacher, principal, superintendent, and senior advisor for professional learning and leadership. Karen has implemented the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ (PLC) process both as a principal and as a superintendent, and for several years, she has supported collaborative work in schools to meet the needs of students.
Karen's work focuses on school improvement, leadership coaching, and professional learning community implementation, as well as instruction, assessment, and evidence-based decisions for long-term sustainability.
In 2010, 2011, and 2012, Karen was selected one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the Public Sector by the Women's Executive Network. She also received the national Reader's Digest Leadership in Education Award and was named one of the Outstanding People in the Atlantic Region by Atlantic Canada's Progress magazine.
Karen has served on the Greater Moncton United Way Board, Moncton Rotary Board, Horizon Health Network Board of Directors, and Canadian Education Association Board. Karen holds a master's degree in school administration.
To learn more about Karen's work, visit karenpower.blog, Karen's weekly blog for school improvement.
To book Jeanne Spiller or Karen Power for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.
