Breakthrough Principals: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Stronger Schools - Brossura

Desravines, Jean; Aquino, Jaime; Fenton, Benjamin

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ISBN 10: 1118801172 ISBN 13: 9781118801178

Casa editrice: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2016

Riassunto

A principal’s job, first and foremost, is to diagnose their school’s needs and match them to effective principal actions and school practices that drive student success. Successful principals use their diagnosis to build an action plan that pushes their school—and student achievement—to the next level. New Leaders developed their Transformational Leadership Framework (TLF) to understand exactly what schools achieving dramatic gains are doing and to share that knowledge throughout the school leadership community. Armed with this knowledge and aligned system supports, educational leaders—whether they are principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, or district administrators—can drive significant gains in student achievement and help close the achievement gap.

The New School Leader is a detailed field guide of the school practices and principal actions found in the highest-gaining urban public schools. The book is based on over 100 visits and case studies of schools that were identified as achieving dramatic gains, and draws on the latest research on the practices of effective schools, turnaround schools, secondary schools, and leadership.

Desravines and Fenton focus on five categories of school practices. Among them are two primary drivers of student achievement: rigorous, goal and data-drivenlearning and teaching and achievement and belief-based school-wide culture. Two additional categories of a principal’s work are essential to supporting these drivers: building and managing a high-qualityaligned staff to the school’s vision and instituting operations and systems to put the vision into place. Undergirding all of these categories is thepersonal leadership modeled by a principal who sets the tone for all student and adult relationships and practices in the school.

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JEAN DESRAVINES serves as chief executive officer of New Leaders, an innovative school reform organization that develops and supports highly effective leaders to turn around the nation's high-need public schools. JAIME AQUINO is chief program officer at New Leaders. BENJAMIN FENTON is cofounder and chief strategy officer at New Leaders.

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THE PROVEN FRAMEWORK THAT CAN TRANSFORM YOUR SCHOOL

Breakthrough Principals debunks the myth of the "superhero" principal by detailing the common actions and practices of leaders at our nation's fastest-gaining public schools. Based on the authors' Transformational Leadership Framework, which they developed through in-depth study of more than 100 high-gaining, high-poverty schools, the book distills findings into a practical, action-focused plan for diagnosing school needs and implementing structures, systems, and practices that accelerate student achievement.

Brought to life by real-world stories of principals who have led transformative gains in student achievement, the book is a how-to guide for increasing the quality of teaching and learning; improving culture; attracting and supporting high-performing teachers; and involving parents and community effectively. Breakthrough Principals unveils the details behind the success stories from across the nation, providing a roadmap to dramatic school improvement.

"As CEO of Chicago Public Schools and U.S. Secretary of Education, I have seen firsthand the life-changing impact that highly skilled principals have on school and student success. In Breakthrough Principals, New Leaders distills what it has learned from 15 years of training, supporting, and studying such exemplary school leaders into a step-by-step guide that can help every principal?particularly those leading schools most in need of improvement?achieve similarly transformative results."
?Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, 2009?2015

"Breakthrough Principals details the essential role school leaders play in ensuring that exceptional teaching and learning occurs in every classroom. The book shows how exemplary principals build powerful cultures, develop robust leadership teams and teacher leaders, and provide effective professional learning, thereby creating schools where both teachers and students excel."

?Irvin Scott, Deputy Director of Effective Teaching, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1118801172
• ISBN 13: 9781118801178
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile