This updated second edition empowers leaders to redefine their roles in the school improvement process, encouraging them to stay motivated in their efforts to enhance student service. It offers fresh insights and strategies to inspire educators to foster a more effective learning environment.
"We can t do that in our school district.""I don t have time to add that to my curriculum."We re fighting against impossible odds with these students." Effective school leadership does not have to be a losing battle. In The Learning How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results , Douglas B. Reeves helps leadership teams go beyond excuses to capitalize on their strengths and reduce their weaknesses. He introduces the Leadership for Learning Framework, which challenges readers to consider that student achievement is more than a set of test scores. Reeves asserts that when leaders focus exclusively on results, they fail to measure and understand the importance of their own actions. Instead, he encourages leaders to use the Leadership for Learning Framework to look deeper into their results. The framework helps leaders distinguish between "Lucky" educators, who achieve high results but don't understand their actions, and "Leading" educators, who achieve high results and understand how their actions influence their success. From conducting strategic planning to evaluating projects to organizing leadership teams, The Learning Leader will help leaders reconceptualize their leadership role and motivate their colleagues. Reeves urges teachers and administrators to become more efficient and focused leaders, but most important, he charges them to be better educators for their students.
Stop apathy in its tracks with the 5' C's of engagement Learning loss and disenchantment with school are real. Students and staff alike need to relearn what it's like to be a community. In this daring book, Doug Reeves, Doug Fisher, and Nancy Frey leave no stone unturned in their quest to find the teaching, learning and leadership practices most conducive to cultivating competence and can-do mindset. Best of all, they arrange every practical idea (and every routine they give you permission to quit!) into a powerful framework they call the Five C's of Engagement: Connections -- feeling known, valued, and tethered to others Conditions -- being able to learn in a stable environment in which expectations are high Challenge -- engaging in an endeavor knowing your high jumps in terms of intellectual and creative risks will be supported Control -- the privilege of learning with a balance between ownership and support Collaboration -- deepening one's knowledge and identity as a learner by being skillful at relationship-building
"In the face of many 21st century issues, as well as a worldwide pandemic, change leadership needs to change. Even before COVID ravaged schools, change efforts often concluded with failure. Douglas Reeves with his book The New Model of Change Leadership aims to reignite change leaders and give them new ways to spark change in education. He presents a sprawling landscape of ideas and material to consider, from the myth of "buy-in" to the dangers of being passionate without a purpose to the difficulties of change and how to avoid them. Schools need to change now more than ever, but effective change is hard. The New Model of Change Leadership accepts those facts and helps change leaders push through to make a real impact"--