By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cathy Lassiter In their new research review on developing effective principals, Darling-Hammond and colleagues (2022) note that, among other things, leaders build positive school climates for students and teachers. Their review synthesized published, peer-reviewed research from 2000 to 2021
What descriptive words come to mind when you imagine a classroom teacher, a site principal, a central administrator? Doug Reeves explores an inverse relationship between the size of a district’s strategic plan and its magnitude of impact on student achievement. I write today to study the inverse relationship between power and trust between a senior leader and his/her employees. First let’s define trust
How do we create schools that better serve all students? It’s a question on the minds of many school leaders. The challenge is that while educators may dedicate years of hard work to equity efforts, they often see little change. Why? Too often schools look
You can view the original post here. “There is no more powerful way of improving on the job than by observing others and having others observe us.” —Roland Barth (2006) Any form of professional learning that engages teachers in observing a live lesson together calls for a