McEwan identifies the distinguishing qualities and unique characteristics of schools that help all students make outstanding gains in performance. Each chapter describes a research-based trait and examines its impact on student achievement. This book provides: tools and processes to facilitate the development of each trait; snapshots of each trait in actual schools; reflections from teachers who have helped create effective schools; observations on school improvement from noted theorists; examples of documents, forms and resources used in effective schools. By nurturing these traits in their schools, educational leaders can build coherent instructional programs and create schools of equity and excellence.

In today’s business culture, leaders are expected to make a powerful impact on results. For leaders who are new to an organisation or position, this expectation takes on greater urgency. Whether you are a newly hired CEO, a recently promoted manager, or the new leader of a project team, you will be expected to make a difference—now! Smart leaders make that impact not by achieving superhuman results as individuals, but by building an organisational culture that drives all employees to learn, collaborate, innovate and improve together. 100 Days to Leadership Impact will prepare you to make an immediate impact in a new role or organisation, and will position you to sustain success from day 101 forward.

Leadership assessment is becoming increasingly vital for schools to retain effective leaders, and this book provides the information and the tools needed to successfully evaluate all types of educational leaders, and improve individual and organisational performance. Incorporating the 10 Dimensions of Leadership, this resource is based on research, theory and best practices in leadership, organisational effectiveness and personnel evaluation. It focuses on three critical concepts of leadership: The impact of leadership on student achievement, equity and staff morale; the role of personal predispositions and acquired knowledge skills on effectiveness; and how evaluation can be used to improve performance. 

Building a school culture is one of the most complex and important concepts in education, yet it has often been a neglected vital component in school improvement. Culture gives a school its own identity; it is simply: 'the way we do business around here'. This book provides the reader with procedures for analysing and shaping the culture of a school, as well as outlining how school leaders can sustain culture for the furture.

Use the ideas and Friday Focus memos to motivate and engage your staff every week and help create a school culture focused on the growth of students and teachers. Easy to understand and implement, Friday Focus memos offer an effective and efficient way to improve student learning, staff development and school culture from within. These memos focus on topics such as active learning, high expectations, gratitude and test preparation. This book includes 37 teaching and learning memos, one for each week of the school year, for principals and other administrators to reproduce and circulate among their staff. Zoul prefaces each memo with stories from his experiences as a teacher, coach and assistant principal in the P-12 levels.

Coaching Educational Leadership is about building leadership capacity in individuals, and in institutions, through enhancing professional relationships. It is based on the importance of maximising potential, and harnessing the ongoing commitment and energy needed to meet personal and professional goals. This book: challenges you to critically reflect on your leadership and professional relationships; offers practical activities and exercises; describes leadership coaching based on reciprocal processes; seeks to connect theory and practice; and provides a basis for workshop activities in coaching, appraisal and mentoring. Coaching Educational Leadership will assist educators who believe in the development of good leadership at all levels.

This book brings together eleven outstanding writers to provide insights, frameworks, and ideas on sustaining school leaders and developing values-based leadership to counter existing short-term management solutions. The authors contributions take leadership thinking to the next level, help empower school leaders, and make this book a key source of strategies, insights, and frameworks for anyone involved in sustaining high-quality leadership.

The authors demonstrate how understanding of personality types and individual leadership styles can help school leaders and team members understand one another’s working preferences, work from individual strengths, uncover new areas for development, and distribute leadership responsibilities more effectively. This text provides: descriptions of leadership styles; ways to build a team; strategies for coping with leadership stress; a model for problem solving. Differentiated School Leadership is an ideal resource for principals, teacher leaders, superintendents and those leading or serving on school improvement teams.

District leaders need not direct educational policy and progress from a distance. District Leadership that Works explores the research that proves district leadership does have an impact on student achievement in the classroom. District Leadership That Works offers research-based recommendations for setting and monitoring nonnegotiable goals for achievement and instruction at district and school levels. While district-defined goals are essential, effective leadership involves a collaborative effort among schools, teacher unions, students and community members. This book not only addresses teacher accountability to ensure classroom effectiveness, but it also addresses leaders’ responsibility to get the right resources and support to educators.

The challenges of the principalship are evolving, demanding a new skill set for leaders. In Effective School Leadership: Developing Principals through Cognitive CoachingSM, Ellison and Hayes set forth a practical guide to assist systems in responding to the critical need for leadership development. This practical guide offers a rationale for new ways of thinking about principal development. It includes a rich explanation of Cognitive CoachingSM principles. Model conversations offer authentic samples of principal coaching. The reader has the opportunity to explore the metacognition of a principal's coach. Action research and examples from systems are included as well as a set of guidelines for implementing a program of Cognitive Coaching of Principals.

Drawing on recent research findings, this book shows how leaders can pare down from a proliferation of initiatives to determine what is truly most important based on their local concerns, challenges, populations and other school factors. Identifying a specific set of leadership practices that are more strongly associated with improvements in student achievement, Reeves provides explicit guidelines for how school leaders can improve their most critical leadership decisions by simultaneously engaging in three essential strategies: monitoring teaching and leadership practices, building high degrees of efficacy among staff members and focusing on a smaller number of priorities. Finding Your Leadership Focus is essential reading for principals, teacher leaders and PLC book study groups.

The most comprehensive, in-depth guide yet on leadership styles in education now makes it much easier for educators to identify and actualise their natural leadership style. Questionnaires, self-help activities and a multitude of other strategies encourage educators at every level to stretch their leadership capacities and recognise the leadership potential in themselves and others. Understanding the natural leadership qualities and virtues helps teachers to create an educational environment that is characterised by excellence.

While most small business books cover niche components of the startup model, From Idea to Exit tackles the entire entrepreneurial journey from the initial seed idea through a well-planned exit strategy. Small business activist and advocate Jeff Weber uses his own success story to frame a practical call to action for those who dream of taking that first big step. Weber sets out to answer fundamental questions foranyone who has had a new business idea and then maps out four phases of the entrepreneurial journey: Idea, Startup, Running, and Exit.

This book contains everything you need, to build a successful and sustainable plan that is rooted in enduring principles. Bestselling author Frank Crowther makes a compelling case for capacity building and parallel leadership as the keys to ensuring sustainable improvement. Based on a recent research study that examined how school leaders collaborated to enhance quality in their workplaces, this book: ?Includes practical examples and proven tools ?Outlines six research-based dynamics for accomplishing lasting results ? Provides real-life examples of successful parallel leadership among administrators, teachers and students ?Demonstrates effective capacity building in a variety of settings with case studies and simulations.

If you've ever thought that you should spend less time reacting to events and more time anticipating changes that lurk just around the corner, then here's a book that gives you the vision you need to be a future-focused leader.