Full Description
To address today's numerous goals and challenges, K-12 schools need transformational leaders—leaders able to substantively enhance and improve educational systems and educator practices in order to achieve better, longer-lasting outcomes for all students. This practical resource is for superintendents, principals, and other education leaders who are charged with rapidly improving their schools and districts. Grounded in WestEd's research-based and field-tested Four Domains of Rapid School Improvement framework, this book offers guidance, support, and resources in the areas of school turnaround, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift. Every chapter includes prompts to encourage reflection and discussion with colleagues, as well as action steps to put guidance into practice. Transformational Leadership for Rapid School Improvement can be used as a text for educational leadership courses and for professional learning with practicing principals and superintendents.
Book Features:
A collection of research-supported, field-tested leadership strategies to elicit rapid school improvement.
Recommendations from education leaders and experts with deep experience engaging in successful school improvement efforts.
Chapters organized according to four domains: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.
Timely topics such as leading with empathy, fostering teacher motivation, understanding the intersectionality of social-emotional learning, supporting trauma-informed practices, culturally responsive teaching, and critical race theory.
Prompts in every chapter to encourage reflection and discussion with colleagues.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Introduction—Turnaround Leadership
1. Leading with Empathy: Leveraging an Essential Leadership Trait
Michael P. Nagler2. Culturally Responsive Schools Start with Culturally Responsive Leaders
Saroja R. Warner3. Is an Equity Audit in Your Future?
Shandy Hauk and Joyce Kaser4. Planning and Implementing a Special Education Program Review
Nancy Hurley, Kristin Reedy, and Dona MeindersPart II: Talent Development
5. Supporting Educator Wellbeing: Strategies for Self-Care
Christina Pate6. Strengthening Staff Motivation and Morale
Michael Middleton and Kevin Perks7. Achieving the Promise of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Kevin PerksPart III: Instructional Transformation
8. Understanding How Social-Emotional Learning, Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education and Critical Race Theory Intersect
Andrea Browning and Saroja R. Warner9. Conducting a Targeted Curriculum Review
Robert Rosenfeld10. Leading Formative Assessment to Improve Student Agency
Nancy GerzonPart IV: Culture Shift
11. School Climate Essentials: A Call to Action
Shazia Hashmi, Rebeca Cerna, and Alexis Stern12. Foundations of Trauma-Informed Practice in Education
Christina Pate, Nakanya Magby, and Jenny Betz13. Building on Family and Community Strengths
Maria Paredes14. Deepening Understanding to Support Transgender Youth
Deborah A. Bradley and Stephen C. HamiltonAfterword
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
