Balanced Leadership For Powerful Learning: Tools For Achieving Success In Your School, Aug/2015

You know the leadership practices that matter most are the ones that have proven to positively affect student achievement. This book puts you on the journey to acquiring those practices by drawing on in-depth stories of school leaders from across the United States. Balancing when and how to maintain the status quo with when and how to challenge it is often the difference between effective and ineffective leadership. Learn how a balanced approach—melding purposeful change with continuous maintenance—makes school leaders more effective in implementing the three fundamental components of leadership:

1. Establishing a clear focus and keeping everyone targeted on issues that matter most.
2. Managing the difficult challenges associated with making the changes that will improve your school.
3. Creating a sense among all teachers and staff that they are invested in student outcomes and that they can make a difference.

Explore specific practices and the step-by-step tools you need to integrate the actions and behaviors of successful leaders into your daily practices.

About The Authors:

Bryan Goodwin is the president and CEO of McREL International, a Denver-based nonprofit education research and development organization. Goodwin, a former teacher and journalist, has been at McREL for 15 years, serving previously as Chief Operating Officer and Director of Communications and Marketing. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success, The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day, and The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2020. Goodwin writes a monthly research column for Educational Leadership and presents research findings and insights to audiences across the United States and in Canada and Australia.

Greg Cameron is an educational leader and consultant and former executive director at McREL International, where he provided oversight and support for McREL's school-level leadership work. From 2002 to 2015, he served on the organization's leadership design and developmental team, designing and facilitating high-quality professional development for school leaders across the United States and around the world. Cameron is co-author of The Balanced Leadership Framework and Teaching Reading in Social Studies. Previously, he was an elementary school principal, an assistant principal, and a middle and high school classroom teacher.

Heather Hein is a communications consultant at McREL International. For the past decade, she has written and edited a variety of publications and materials that engage educators in McREL's work. Hein has taught English as a second language to adults and has worked as a journalist; she now serves as managing editor of McREL's magazine, Changing Schools, and provides editorial support and guidance for the organization.