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Lead the change that you want to see in your school!
Is your school or district heading in the right direction? In this essential guide for leaders, Lee Jenkins shows how to unite and energize your team as never before, while helping your students to love learning and crave achievement.
A trusted advisor to numerous districts, Jenkins knows how to successfully transform school culture - for the long-term. Beginning with an introduction from scholar Michael Fullan, each chapter presents compelling insights and strategies for leaders, addressing how to
Evolve your leadership style to guide, empower and serve
Apply the principles of continuous strategic improvement as an antidote to win/lose approaches to school accountability
Develop a healthy, positive culture of achievement by deeply engaging your students in their own progress and success
Turn to this resource and prepare to lead positive change, from the classroom to the staff room and beyond.
"This book creates a whole picture approach to school improvement while shunning the current top down model in favor of a school-led plan. The approach not only increases school performances, but values the school-level leadership and instructional faculty."
Amanda Mayeaux, Career Management Specialist
Iberville Parish Schools
"If your district is ready to move from arbitrary to observable, from fractured to focused, and from silos to systems, you've found the book that can move entire organizations from a goal mindset to a growth mindset. Lee Jenkins provides common-sense strategies that impact the efficiency and effectiveness of our classrooms, with a clear focus on student growth. In an educational era saturated with the latest remedy for what ails us, Lee provides a refreshing cure by offering simple solutions for lasting change."
Dr. Jane Stavem, Associate Superintendent for Instruction
Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NE
Contents
Foreword by Michael Fullan
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Continuous Strategic Improvement for Optimization
Chapter 1. Continuous Improvement: Placing Wheels on Servant Leadership
Chapter 2. Adding Strategic to Continuous Improvement
Chapter 3. Efficiency: Removing Waste
Chapter 4. Effectiveness: Testing Countermeasures
Part II. The Classroom First and Foremost
Chapter 5. Continuous Strategic Improvement: Classroom
Chapter 6. Student Experts: The Standards
Chapter 7. Practices That Support Powerful Standards
Part III. Continuous Strategic Improvement for Instructional Leadership
Chapter 8. Optimization With the Radar Chart
Chapter 9. The Strategic Plan
Chapter 10. Alignment and Stabilization
Chapter 11. Strategies Worth Testing
Chapter 12. The Dichotomous Rubric and Performance Expectations
Part IV. Optimizing Human Resources and Finance
Chapter 13. Human Resources
Chapter 14. Finance and Operations
Part V. Creating a Culture of Continuous Strategic Improvement
Chapter 15. Classroom: Teacher Experts in Continuous Strategic Improvement
Chapter 16. The Role of the Principal With Continuous Strategic Improvement
Chapter 17. Reflection
Part VI. Results
Chapter 18. Data and Statistics: From a Continuous Strategic Improvement Perspective
Chapter 19. Conclusion and Challenge
Resources
Glossary
References
Index
