Leverage Leadership - A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools - DVD Included

Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools)shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness byfollowing a core set of principles. These seven principles, or"levers," allow for consistent, transformational, and replicablegrowth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders willleverage much more learning from the same amount of timeinvestment. Fundamentally, each of these seven levers answers thecore questions of school leadership: What should an effectiveleader do, and how and when should they do it. 

Aimed at all levels of school leadership, the book is for anyprincipal, superintendent, or educator who wants to be atransformational leader. The book includes 30 video clips oftop-tier leaders in action. These videos bring great schools toyou, and support a deeper understanding of both the components ofsuccess and how it looks as a whole. There are also many helpfulrubrics, extensive professional development tools, calendars, andtemplates. 

• Explores the core principles of effective leadership
• Author's charter school, North Star Academy in Newark, NewJersey, received the highest possible award given by the U.S.Department of Education; the National Blue Ribbon

Print version includes an instructive DVD with 30 video clips toshow how it looks in real life. E-book customers: please note thatdetails on how to access the content from the DVD may be found inthe e-book Table of Contents. Please see the section: "How toAccess DVD Contents" 

Bambrick-Santoyo has trained more than 1,800 school leadersnationwide in his work at Uncommon Schools and is a recognizedexpert on transforming schools to achieve extraordinaryresults.

Paul Bambrick-Santoyo is the managing director of the award-winning North Star Academies in Newark, New Jersey. He has trained thousands of school leaders nationwide in his work at Uncommon Schools and as a faculty member for New Leaders. He is also the author of Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction.