The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

“For educators who genuinely desire to make a difference, this book will be an invaluable resource.” —Pedro Noguera, Professor of Education, UCLA

“I wish I had this resource when I was principal of a large urban high school, always trying to solve the seemingly unsolvable problem.” —Sue Szachowicz, former principal, Brockton High School/Brockton, MA

“In our efforts to help leaders grow and think critically, this collection of article summaries will be a source of great conversations.” —Curtis Jones, Superintendent, Bibb County Schools, Macon, GA, 2019 National Superintendent of the Year

For years, Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang have been “designated readers” for busy front-line educators, curating the best ideas and research from scores of magazines and books. In The Best of the Marshall Memo, they’ve identified the most thought-provoking and helpful article summaries from the Marshall Memo archive and added professional learning suggestions. The book aims to help principals, teachers, superintendents, consultants, and researchers address the most pressing issues they face every day.

The book features the work of 170 researchers and practitioners, including Elena Aguilar, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Angela Duckworth, Jennifer Gonzalez, Tom Guskey, Jon Saphier, Pedro Noguera, Carol Dweck and Dylan Wiliam. Their writing come from a wide range of publications, from Phi Delta Kappan to The New York Times.

The Best of the Marshall Memo is organized in three broad categories: high-leverage practices, maximizing teachers’ impact, and classroom structures for successful learning. Each chapter focuses on a high-priority topic—for example, setting a school’s mission, time management for principals, interviewing and hiring, supervising and evaluating teachers, classroom discipline, and assessment for learning—followed by detailed professional learning suggestions.

Kim Marshall was a teacher, central-office administrator, and principal in the Boston Public Schools for more than 30 years. He now leads workshops and courses, coaches school leaders, consults with schools and districts, and produces the weekly Marshall Memo, summarizing ideas and research from over 60 publications. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2nd edition, 2013).

Jenn David-Lang has worked in education for more than 25 years as a teacher, administrator, and consultant. She now designs and provides workshops for principals and teachers, coaches leaders, and conducts school evaluations. Since 2007, Jenn has published The Main Idea, a service for busy school leaders that provides summaries of compelling education books, accompanied by suggestions for professional learning.

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The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

“For educators who genuinely desire to make a difference, this book will be an invaluable resource.” —Pedro Noguera, Professor of Education, UCLA

“I wish I had this resource when I was principal of a large urban high school, always trying to solve the seemingly unsolvable problem.” —Sue Szachowicz, former principal, Brockton High School/Brockton, MA

“In our efforts to help leaders grow and think critically, this collection of article summaries will be a source of great conversations.” —Curtis Jones, Superintendent, Bibb County Schools, Macon, GA, 2019 National Superintendent of the Year

For years, Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang have been “designated readers” for busy front-line educators, curating the best ideas and research from scores of magazines and books. In The Best of the Marshall Memo, they’ve identified the most thought-provoking and helpful article summaries from the Marshall Memo archive and added professional learning suggestions. The book aims to help principals, teachers, superintendents, consultants, and researchers address the most pressing issues they face every day.

The book features the work of 170 researchers and practitioners, including Elena Aguilar, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Angela Duckworth, Jennifer Gonzalez, Tom Guskey, Jon Saphier, Pedro Noguera, Carol Dweck and Dylan Wiliam. Their writing come from a wide range of publications, from Phi Delta Kappan to The New York Times.

The Best of the Marshall Memo is organized in three broad categories: high-leverage practices, maximizing teachers’ impact, and classroom structures for successful learning. Each chapter focuses on a high-priority topic—for example, setting a school’s mission, time management for principals, interviewing and hiring, supervising and evaluating teachers, classroom discipline, and assessment for learning—followed by detailed professional learning suggestions.

Kim Marshall was a teacher, central-office administrator, and principal in the Boston Public Schools for more than 30 years. He now leads workshops and courses, coaches school leaders, consults with schools and districts, and produces the weekly Marshall Memo, summarizing ideas and research from over 60 publications. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2nd edition, 2013).

Jenn David-Lang has worked in education for more than 25 years as a teacher, administrator, and consultant. She now designs and provides workshops for principals and teachers, coaches leaders, and conducts school evaluations. Since 2007, Jenn has published The Main Idea, a service for busy school leaders that provides summaries of compelling education books, accompanied by suggestions for professional learning.

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The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

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“For educators who genuinely desire to make a difference, this book will be an invaluable resource.” —Pedro Noguera, Professor of Education, UCLA

“I wish I had this resource when I was principal of a large urban high school, always trying to solve the seemingly unsolvable problem.” —Sue Szachowicz, former principal, Brockton High School/Brockton, MA

“In our efforts to help leaders grow and think critically, this collection of article summaries will be a source of great conversations.” —Curtis Jones, Superintendent, Bibb County Schools, Macon, GA, 2019 National Superintendent of the Year

For years, Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang have been “designated readers” for busy front-line educators, curating the best ideas and research from scores of magazines and books. In The Best of the Marshall Memo, they’ve identified the most thought-provoking and helpful article summaries from the Marshall Memo archive and added professional learning suggestions. The book aims to help principals, teachers, superintendents, consultants, and researchers address the most pressing issues they face every day.

The book features the work of 170 researchers and practitioners, including Elena Aguilar, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Angela Duckworth, Jennifer Gonzalez, Tom Guskey, Jon Saphier, Pedro Noguera, Carol Dweck and Dylan Wiliam. Their writing come from a wide range of publications, from Phi Delta Kappan to The New York Times.

The Best of the Marshall Memo is organized in three broad categories: high-leverage practices, maximizing teachers’ impact, and classroom structures for successful learning. Each chapter focuses on a high-priority topic—for example, setting a school’s mission, time management for principals, interviewing and hiring, supervising and evaluating teachers, classroom discipline, and assessment for learning—followed by detailed professional learning suggestions.

Kim Marshall was a teacher, central-office administrator, and principal in the Boston Public Schools for more than 30 years. He now leads workshops and courses, coaches school leaders, consults with schools and districts, and produces the weekly Marshall Memo, summarizing ideas and research from over 60 publications. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2nd edition, 2013).

Jenn David-Lang has worked in education for more than 25 years as a teacher, administrator, and consultant. She now designs and provides workshops for principals and teachers, coaches leaders, and conducts school evaluations. Since 2007, Jenn has published The Main Idea, a service for busy school leaders that provides summaries of compelling education books, accompanied by suggestions for professional learning.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781948796835
Publisher: Epigraph Publishing
Publication date: 08/13/2019
Pages: 388
Sales rank: 1,077,210
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kim Marshall was a teacher, central office administrator, and principal in the Boston Public Schools for thirty-two years. Since 2002, he has led workshops and courses, coached school leaders, and consulted with schools and districts. Starting in 2003, he has produced the weekly Marshall Memo. Kim is the author of many articles and books, including Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, second edition, 2013).

Jenn David-Lang has worked in the field of education for more than twenty-five years as a teacher, administrator, and consultant. Currently, she runs The Main Idea, an annual subscription service that provides monthly summaries of compelling books and professional learning ideas to school leaders throughout the world. In addition, Jenn offers a wide range of consultation, including: designing and providing workshops for leaders and teachers, coaching leaders, and conducting school evaluations.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

A. THE LEADER'S TOOLKIT 1

Chapter One: Planning with a Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter Two: Managing Time for Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter Three: Leaders’ Emotional Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

B. MORE GOOD TEACHING IN MORE CLASSROOMS MORE OF THE TIME 93

Chapter Four: Interviewing and Hiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter Five: Coaching Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Chapter Six: Critical Feedback and Difficult Conversations . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Chapter Seven: Teacher Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

C. STRUCTURES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS 227

Chapter Eight: Positive Classroom Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Chapter Nine: Planning Units and Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Chapter Ten: Assessment for Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Chapter Eleven: Grading Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Index 365

About the Authors 370

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