principals
10 Roles for Leading Toward Deeper Learning
As schools shift to personalized, competency-based deeper learning, how will the roles of leaders change? What sorts of skills, habits and mindsets will support these significant changes in education? What roles do leaders play to create and support deeper learning environments? The answers.
Finishing the School Year Strong: They Deserve Your Best
By: Trevor Greene. There's no “next time” in the education of our students, that's why we must take advantage of every opportunity and create experiences for students to extend their learning through the end of the year.
5 Steps to Effective and Transformative Professional Development
By: Alvin Crawford. Excellent and transformative professional development is in our reach, argues Alvin Crawford. By following these steps, we can move towards professional development that is blended, personalized, and transformative. These are changes, Alvin argues, that are needed in the field given that up to 90% of professional development is deemed ineffective.
Instructional Leadership through Focused Observation and Feedback
By: Sarah-Jane Caban. As part of our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Sarah-Jane writes about Relay's Graduate School and their work to help prepare principals for Deeper Learning environments through their program, The National Principals Academy Fellowship.
The Transformational Leader
By: Carmen Coleman. In this blog for our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Carmen writes about the need for education transformation, and what skills leaders need to help better meet the needs of 21st century learners.
For Deeper Learning, Transform Schools Into Leadership Machines
By: Bryan & Emily Hassel. A new model for Deeper Learning leadership which includes advocating for new models of leadership including multi-school leadership models.
EdLeaders as Lead Communicators
In a recent brief, an important role for leaders suggests that principals leading transformational efforts should be the “lead communicators.” And that empowered principals can be assets for public engagement in other settings as well.
Calling All Principals & EdLeaders!
Announcing our latest project with Hewlett Foundation, 'Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning' to address how leadership preparation and development must evolve to better equip leaders to create and support Deeper Learning environments.
How should principals be trained? Like MBAs? Like CEOs?
New “Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning” project draws on the expertise of researchers, practitioners and pioneers who have made tackling the leadership challenge a key part of their mission.
Stopping the Bus: The Power of Not Moving On
By: Andrew Malone. "Stopping the bus" is one of the most powerful ways to let your constituencies know what you really do and do not value, what you really will and will not tolerate.