Deep Change Leadership
A Model for Renewing and Strengthening Schools and Districts
Douglas Reeves
Change efforts often fail to meet their desired ends. Learn how to make a real, sustainable impact with Deep Change Leadership. This school leadership resource highlights engagement, inquiry, and focused action as part of an effective leadership model.
Achieving Equity & Excellence
Immediate Results From the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools
Douglas Reeves
Empower students, teachers, and administrators to make dramatic improvements in achievement, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Bring equitable teaching practices and active learning strategies into the classroom. Improve learning outcomes for students in high-poverty schools and poor socioeconomic backgrounds.
From Ghosts to Graduates
AN EDUCATOR’S GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING AND RECONNECTING DISENGAGED STUDENTS
Emily Freeland, Ed.D.
This timely book recognizes that three years of interrupted learning has created an impending dropout timebomb of students who are traditionally at risk, as well as those who became disengaged during pandemic learning. Many students are ghosts in the system--they have become disconnected and disenchanted with schooling. Instead of only addressing strategies to treat the symptoms of dropping out, this important resource addresses the causes of the disengagement that led to those symptoms.
She Leads
THE WOMEN’S GUIDE TO A CAREER IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Dr. Rachael George and Majalise W. Tolan
With wisdom and implementable guidance that’s applicable to early-career leaders and veterans alike, this book is designed to help you land your dream job, make sure your voice is heard, find (and offer) support, attain better balance, and learn the leadership style that suits your strengths.
Leading the Whole Teacher
STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING THE EDUCATORS IN YOUR SCHOOL
Allyson Apsey
How could school leaders create a school environment that nurtures the whole teacher? What impact could a school that sets teachers up for success have on student achievement? This book explores the six components of the whole teacher with strategies and ideas to create the environment that teachers need to thrive.
Beyond Conversations About Race
A Guide for Discussions With Students, Teachers, and Communities
Washington Collado, Sharroky Hollie, Rosa Isiah, Yvette Jackson, Anthony Muhammad, Douglas Reeves, Kenneth C. Williams
This essential work provokes respectful dialogue about race that catalyzes school-changing action. Learn how to talk about race in the classroom and discover actionable steps you can take toward promoting a safe, equitable environment for marginalized students and underserved communities.
THE successful middle school schedule
Ann McCarty Perez, Ed.D.
Perhaps one of the most wide-reaching decisions a school leader makes is that of the schedule. It truly affects everyone. From start to end times, it impacts, parents, bus drivers, food service staff, teachers, and students. As we approach the schedule, it is not enough to just study the 18 Characteristics of Successful Middle Schools. It is our imperative to put them into action.
100-Day Leaders
Turning Short-Term Wins Into Long-Term Success in Schools
Douglas Reeves, Robert Eaker
Dramatically increase student achievement and transform school culture in only 100 days. Using focused, strategic planning and change management, educational leadership can make significant changes that lead to continuous school improvement.
A Lesson Plan from A-Z
THE MIDDLE GRADES MINDSET
Buckle up as we dive into the essence of middle level education, presented in the familiar format of the everyday alphabet. Using selected words from A-Z, Dru Tomlin sets out to examine and explore, to quest and question, to ask and answer, how we can reach every student and create great middle schools. You’ll finish this book full of hope and optimism, ready to put your middle grades mindset to work.