Driving improvement: better PD, adult learning, change, vision, instructional leadership, and data culture.
Most staff meetings could have been an email, and most PD is forgotten by Monday.
Open workshop →WorkshopSchools are often buried under too many initiatives, each launched with enthusiasm and abandoned before it takes hold.
Open workshop →WorkshopTeaching adults is not the same as teaching children.
Open workshop →WorkshopA school without a clear, shared vision and a few focused goals drifts, busy but not moving anywhere in particular.
Open workshop →WorkshopThe research is clear that a leader's influence on learning is strongest when they act as an instructional leader, deeply involved in teaching and learning, not just a building manager.
Open workshop →WorkshopLots of schools collect data; far fewer use it well.
Open workshop →WorkshopBig, sweeping reforms often fail, while small, tested changes that build on each other can transform a school over time.
Open workshop →WorkshopSome challenges have clear technical fixes; many of the hardest do not.
Open workshop →WorkshopA student cannot learn if they are not there, and chronic absenteeism, missing 10% or more of school, has surged into one of the most pressing challenges facing schools.
Open workshop →WorkshopBuying technology is easy; getting it to improve learning is hard.
Open workshop →WorkshopWithin the same school, students often have very different access to opportunity, who takes advanced courses, who is disciplined, where resources go.
Open workshop →WorkshopChoosing a new curriculum is a major investment, and most of the value is won or lost in implementation, not selection.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen every teacher handles behavior differently and discipline is inconsistent, students and staff suffer.
Open workshop →WorkshopIn some schools, coaching is a role one person holds; in the strongest schools, coaching is a culture, where growth, feedback, and learning from one another are simply how everyone works.
Open workshop →WorkshopSchools improve when people try new things, but staff only take risks when it feels safe to do so.
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