Five Keys to Effective Teacher Learning Teams
A five-year study of Title I schools identified these five keys for creating effective teacher learning teams…
The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness
This report explores public school districts’ failure to measure or record teacher effectiveness in any meaningful way and argue that in addition to measuring and recording teacher effectiveness, school districts should use that information to inform decision-making. They lament that the only way to determine who effective and ineffective teachers are is usually through word of mouth.
Effective Leadership Rubric
A rubric of examples of how low performing, effective, and high performing leaders exemplify these characteristics and responsibilities.
Seven Strong Claims About Successful School Leadership
The authors provide an overview of literature concerning school leadership and make seven claims about successful school leadership.
The Many Faces of Leadership
The author discusses teacher leadership: why teachers exercise leadership, how teachers exercise leadership, why teacher leadership is important, what teacher leadership looks like, and conditions that promote teacher leadership.
Ten Roles for Teacher Leaders
Cindy Harrison and Joelle Killion outline ten (of many) roles that teachers take on to contribute to their schools’ success.
The Power of a Touchstone
Charles Elbot and Dave Fulton suggest schools develop “touchstones” along with the community that contain values and beliefs that should guide decision-making and behavior.
School Leadership Study: Developing Successful Principals
The authors discuss research on essential elements of good leadership, successful leadership development programs, program structures that provide the best learning environments, and policies that sustain good programs.
How Leadership Influences Student Learning
This article attempts to explain how leadership has an effect on student learning and what the essential ingredients of successful leadership are. The authors suggest that leadership is second only to teaching in its impact on student-learning.
Moneyball (Breaking Biases)
Yale graduate Peter Brand uses statistical analysis to evaluate potential players for the Oakland Athletics. Because of his revolutionary way of thinking about baseball players, Brand sees the potential in…