Leading With Intention: Eight Areas for Reflection and Planning in Your PLC at Work (40+ Educational Leadership Practices You Can Use in Your School Today)

by Jeanne Spiller, Karen Power

Overview

With foreword by Douglas Reeves

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 that supports collaborative leadership and teaching, evidence-based decision making, and the belief that students are the top priority.

Effective school leadership practices for building leadership capacity and furthering 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 educational leadership reflection questions and downloadable reproducibles designed to support your instructional 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947604001
Publisher:	Solution Tree Press
Publication date:	09/28/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	7 MB

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"In this elegant and powerful book, Spiller and Power have created a comprehensive and memorable frame­work of eight interlocking areas that make it easy for leaders to focus on what gets results."

—Michael Fullan, professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"The authors acknowledge the myriad challenges leaders face when working to impact student learning. Through real-life examples, protocols, reflection questions, and end-of-chapter planning tools, Spiller and Power show the reader how to focus on simplicity by articulating what is tight. The reader is left with a manageable plan focused on the right work."

—Sarah Schuhl, author and educational consultant

"The authors provide incredible clarity for leaders at all levels, guiding them to focus on the high-impact strategies that create the greatest leverage for school improvement. This is an essential book for anyone leading the PLC process."

—Joe Cuddemi, author and educational consultant

"Having a chance to work with Karen Power for three years showed me how we must lead with intention, and not just randomly hope it works. This book will give leaders a practical guide for creating lasting change in their school."

—Yvette Scarborough, principal, Fox Elementary, Georgia