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Coaching Myths and Realities

Remember when the coach was the man on the sidelines wildly gesturing his team on to victory? Now the proliferation of instructional coaches, leadership coaches, and life coaches has made the term coaching less precise.

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How Do You Change School Culture?

Consider the following laments that I have heard recently from school leaders: “We can’t change the grading policy—it’s part of our culture.”

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Leadership Leverage

School leaders are often held accountable for things beyond their control.

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Preventing 1,000 Failures

What would preventing 1,000 course failures mean for your school system? For administrators, it would mean 1,000 fewer repeated courses that have to be worked into students’ schedules.

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Teachers Step Up

As this issue of Educational Leadership makes clear, teacher leadership is a concept that extends far beyond a slogan and has become an integral part of education reform.

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New Ways to Hire Educators

Two variables that profoundly influence student achievement are the quality of instruction provided by teachers (Darling-Hammond & Sykes, 1999; Education Trust, 1998) and the quality of leadership provided by school principals (Davis, Darling-Hammond, LaPointe, & Meyerson, 2005; Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004).

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Making Strategic Planning Work

For some people, the term strategic planning brings to mind a disciplined and thoughtful process that links the values, mission, and goals of a school system with a set of coherent strategies and tasks designed to achieve those goals.

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Making the Best Even Better

Much of the research discussed in these columns has focused on how under-performing schools have been making dramatic improvements through the collaboration of boards of education, senior leadership, school administrators, teachers, and community members.

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Model Teachers

How do educators learn? The answer to this question will vary depending on how we define the word learn.

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Motivating Unmotivated Students

“I can’t force them to study!” said the exasperated teacher. “I’ve heard the last group chant of ‘All Children Can Learn’ that I can stand.

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PLCs on Steroids: Moving teacher practice to the center of data teams

Professional learning communities have a track record of helping teachers make sense of student performance data, but they can — and should — do more to support meaningful changes in teaching practice.

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Pull the Weeds Before You Plant the Flowers

Imagine a gardener who sees row upon row of beautiful flowers in a nursery. He enthusiastically loads a cart to overflowing in anticipation of placing each new plant in a special place in his garden.