A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0 : How to Build Exceptional Schools Across Your District

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A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership: How to Build Exceptional Schools Across Your District......Page 1 Contents......Page 7 DVD Video Content......Page 11 DVD Additional Materials......Page 15 Acknowledgments......Page 21 About the Author......Page 23 Introduction......Page 25 A Paradigm Shift: From Administration to Instruction......Page 26 Obstacles to Effective School Management......Page 27 The Seven Levers: A Pathway to Instructional Leadership......Page 29 Videos......Page 30 One-Pagers and Summary Guides......Page 31 Action Planning......Page 33 Step 1: Get Familiar with the Leverage Leadership Model......Page 35 How to Read the Book-Superintendents and Central Office and State Leadership......Page 36 The Path Ahead......Page 37 Part 1: What to Coach......Page 39 Chapter 1: A Primer on Leverage Leadership......Page 41 The Seven Levers of Leadership......Page 44 See It. Name It. Do It.......Page 46 Learn the Levers......Page 47 Build a Weekly Schedule......Page 48 Build a Monthly Map......Page 49 Conclusion......Page 50 Chapter 2: Identifying the Right Action Steps......Page 51 Criteria for Principal Action Steps......Page 54 Case Studies—Try It Yourself......Page 61 Case Study 1: Student Culture......Page 62 Case Study 2: Data-Driven Instruction......Page 64 Case Study 3: Observation and Feedback......Page 66 Conclusion......Page 68 Pulling the Lever......Page 90 Part 2: How to Coach......Page 93 Chapter 3: Coaching Data-Driven Instruction......Page 95 Set the Table: A Primer on the Conditions for Success District Wide......Page 99 Action Step 1: Select Quality Interim Assessments......Page 101 Action Step 2: Set Up Foundational Curriculum and Lesson Plans......Page 104 Action Step 3: Put Schedules and Structures for Data Meetings in Place......Page 106 Action Step 4: Roll Out PD on Data-Driven Instruction......Page 112 A Case Study-See the Right Data......Page 113 Build the Right Dashboard......Page 123 Collect Student Work......Page 125 Analyze Student Work......Page 126 Coach by Example: Lead Data Meetings......Page 128 Prepare......Page 130 See It and Name It......Page 131 Do It......Page 132 Coach by Doing: Monitor Student Work......Page 134 See It: Start from the Exemplar......Page 135 Name It-for the Leader and the Teacher......Page 136 Follow Up......Page 137 Conclusion......Page 143 Pulling the Lever......Page 148 Chapter 4: Coaching Student Culture......Page 151 Start from the Exemplar......Page 154 Do It......Page 156 Monitor Culture......Page 157 Coach by Walking......Page 160 See It and Name It......Page 162 Do It......Page 164 The 30-Day Playbook......Page 170 Conclusion......Page 173 Pulling the Lever......Page 179 Chapter 5: Coaching Teams of Principals......Page 181 Establish the Norm—One School......Page 183 The Impact of Peer Walkthroughs......Page 185 How to Run a Peer Walkthrough......Page 186 Practice Together—Team Coaching......Page 189 See It and Name it......Page 190 Do It......Page 192 Pulling the Lever......Page 194 Part 3: Systems......Page 197 Chapter 6: Finding the Time......Page 199 Build Your Weekly Schedule......Page 201 Prework: Get to a 6:1-or 12:1-Ratio......Page 202 Block Out External Commitments......Page 204 Lock in Instructional Meetings and Other Activities......Page 206 Lock in Work Time for Big Projects......Page 208 Manage Your Tasks......Page 211 Set the Focus for Each Quarter......Page 212 Manage Your Tasks Each Week......Page 213 Conclusion......Page 215 Pulling the Lever......Page 216 Chapter 7: A Superintendent's Guide to Creating the Conditions for Success......Page 219 Maximize Time in Schools......Page 220 Get Principal Managers into Each School Biweekly......Page 221 Change Email Culture......Page 222 Build Data-Driven Instruction Systems......Page 223 Provide Flexible Support for Turnarounds......Page 224 Conclusion......Page 225 Conclusion......Page 227 Part 4: Professional Development......Page 229 Chapter 8: Workshops: Overview and Highlights......Page 231 What's the Goal?......Page 232 Data-Driven Instruction for Principal Managers-Session Plan......Page 233 Other Times That Work......Page 242 Leading Student Culture for Principal Managers......Page 243 Notes......Page 249 Index......Page 253 End User License Agreement......Page 273