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Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or "levers," allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment. Fundamentally, each of these seven levers answers the core questions of school leadership: What should an effective leader do, and how and when should they do it.
Aimed at all levels of school leadership, the book is for any principal, superintendent, or educator who wants to be a transformational leader. The book includes 30 video clips of top-tier leaders in action. These videos bring great schools to you, and support a deeper understanding of both the components of success and how it looks as a whole. There are also many helpful rubrics, extensive professional development tools, calendars, and templates.
Print version includes an instructive DVD with 30 video clips to show how it looks in real life. E-book customers: please note that details on how to access the content from the DVD may be found in the e-book Table of Contents. Please see the section: "How to Access DVD Contents"
Bambrick-Santoyo has trained more than 1,800 school leaders nationwide in his work at Uncommon Schools and is a recognized expert on transforming schools to achieve extraordinary results.
DVD Contents ix
DVD Video Contents xvii
Foreword xxi
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Authors xxvii
Introduction 1
PART 1 Instruction 19
1 Data-Driven Instruction 21
The Model
Assessment: The Roadmap to Rigor
Analysis: Test in Hand, Face to Face
Action:Walking theWalk
Systems: Lock In Success
Turnaround: What to Do First
Conclusion: The Right Map to Follow
2 Observation and Feedback 59
The Traditional Model: Observation Adrift
Schedule Observation and Feedback
Identify Key Action Steps
Effective Feedback
When Feedback Isn’tWorking: Strategies for Struggling Teachers
Accountability: Tools for Keeping Track of It All
Turnaround: What to Do First
Conclusion: Coaching Teachers Toward Greatness
3 Planning 109
Pitfalls of Planning
Yearly Curriculum Planning: Teaching the Right Content
Weekly and Daily Lesson Planning: Ensuring Accountability
Turnaround: What to Do First
Conclusion: Planning Makes Perfect
4 Professional Development 129
What to Teach: Follow the Data
How to Teach: Living the Learning
Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Poor PD
How to Make It Stick: Accountability
Turnaround: What to Do First
Conclusion: Beyond the Conference Room
PART 2 Culture 161
5 Student Culture 163
From Vision to System
Practice: Moving from Aspiration to Mastery
Maintain and Model: Keeping Culture on Track
Evaluating Student Culture
Turnaround: Fixing a Broken Culture
Conclusion: Small Details, Big Results
6 Staff Culture 189
by Brett Peiser, Contributing Author
Five Strategies for a Successful Staff Culture
Month-to-Month Excellence
Turnaround: From Crisis to Cohesion
Conclusion: Getting to ‘‘Teamlyness’’
7 Managing School Leadership Teams 221
Choosing Leaders
Training Your Team
Leveraging Leadership Team Meetings: Iron Sharpens Iron
EvaluateWhat Matters Most
Conclusion: Leader Support, Student Success
PART 3 Execution 237
8 Finding the Time 239
Lock In aWeekly Schedule
Defend Your Time
The Final Step: Manage Tasks
Turnaround: Schedule for Success
Conclusion: Every Minute Matters
9 The Superintendent’s Guide 267
Train Your Principals
Coach Continuously
Leverage Principal Teams
Turnaround: Support Struggling Schools
Conclusion: Succeed at Scale
Conclusion: A Brighter Future 285
PART 4 Professional Development Workshops: Overview and Highlights 287
10 Observation and Feedback Workshop 289
11 Leading Planning Workshop 307
12 Leading Professional Development Workshop 319
13 Student Culture Workshop 331
14 Finding the Time Workshop 341
Quick Reference Sheet 351
ISLLC Standards 355
Notes 357
Bibliography 365
Index 369
How to Use the DVD 379
Anonymous
Posted September 8, 2012
Santoyo hit a home run with this very practical approach. As the world of education continues to change, Principals can latch on to the strategies in this book and begin to create real change. Student achievement will be a natural flow if these levers are put in place. A much needed tool for administrators!
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Posted June 23, 2012
There may be dozens of ways to run a good school, but perhaps only one way to run a truly excellent school--and this book has it. If I'd have gotten my hands on it years earlier, I would have created a better school environment and wasted far less energy doing it.
Bambrick-Santoyo speaks directly to the school leader perspective, eschewing rumination in favor of action, concretely resolving dilemmas with clear tasks and systems that have proven results. Just when you're wondering how something looks, PB-S tells you; just when you wish you had a copy of a given rubric, you learn it's contained on the accompanying DVD. We're even taught how to redo our weekly schedules to accommodate these new practices.
New to training leaders myself, I've found one of my major challenges to be the trimming of fat from the hazy, often unsupported, theories of school and teacher development, in order to dig out the concrete procedures that produce results quickly and at minimal expense to the overwhelming energies required of the leader each day. Leverage Leadership has done this work already. It will now be our primary guide for training in our network.
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Posted August 24, 2012
teaching to the test bible!
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Overview
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or "levers," allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment. Fundamentally, each of these seven levers answers the core questions of school leadership: What ...