Successful school strengthening and transformation at all levels will be fully explored, outlining eight purposeful ways that today’s educational leaders can positively and significantly impact any school. The eight steps, which led to extremely high levels of various success, are both creative and realistic for any practitioner. Student achievement scores, teacher’s working condition survey results, and other quantitative and qualitative indicators defined the extraordinary stages of school-level achievement. One at-risk school identified as one of the lowest 5% in the entire state, came out of sanctions within 16 months.
Human learning requires actionable feedback studies indicate most teachers receive very little in the normal course of events. This seminar will explore how administrators, coaches, and teachers leaders can create effective systems of Public Practice supporting allstaff in learning how to both give and receive effective feedback via peer observation, learning walks, video feedback, etc as well as fine-tuning PLCs to focus squarely on improved teaching/learning.
