Enrollment and Marketing Strategies for Schools | Enrollment Catalyst s free educational resources for School Websites Include links to these FREE resources for teachers, parents, and kids your District or School web page in just a few simple steps. In the examples below, find the content you would like to feature on your website.Click the orange “get code” button.Highlight and copy the code.Find the area on your site that you would like the content to appear, and paste the code into the your site’s HTML code or Content Management System. Resources for Teachers These links and widgets can help teachers find lesson plans and student activities, as well as find and level books with the Book Wizard. Resources for Parents For the community sections of your website, give your parents extra value by linking to our Parents site with complete parenting guides on homework help, children’s book recommendations, and learning resources for every age and grade. Resources for Kids
Canadian Association of Principals The Principal Story Learning Guide School leadership matters. During the past decade, there has been a growing recognition among educators and policymakers that school principals must be instructional leaders who ensure that high-quality teaching occurs in every classroom. This view is backed up by a solid body of evidence showing that leadership places second only to teaching among school-related influences on learning. In culling lessons from 13 years of research that describes what effective principals do well, The Wallace Foundation has found they perform five key practices: Learning Forward has developed this web-based professional learning guide using excerpts from the award-winning PBS documentary film, The Principal Story, to illustrate the five practices. Watch excerpts from the film here and explore each practice below. Unit 1: Shaping a vision of academic success for all students Unit 2: Creating a climate hospitable to education Unit 3: Cultivating leadership in others Unit 4: Improving instruction
11 Great Leadership and Vision Quotes 11 Great Leadership and Vision Quotes 1. “A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.” What is leadership? When I started this blog, I called it “Teaching: Leading Learning” because I believe the role of classroom teacher and school leader are closely connected. In both cases, you have a group of people and you want to take them from one situation to another. You have to enact change. Authoritarian: Classroom situation: I am the teacher. Last week I ran a twilight session for aspiring leaders in school, exploring the question “what is leadership?” Model #1: The Bus, or “who before where” (Jim Collins) Jim Collins advises leaders to start with “who” not “where” (source) Most people assume that great bus drivers (read: leaders) immediately start the journey by announcing to the people on the bus where they’re going—by setting a new direction or by articulating a fresh corporate vision.In fact, leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with “who.” A bus only has one driver; everyone else is a passenger, no matter which seat they’re in. Model #3: Geese Like this:
Growth Mindset I am leading an initiative to help my school become a Growth Mindset school. I have written about this in the following posts: Many other posts refer to our growth mindset ethos and approach, and I have tagged them here: Growth Mindset Posts. You can read my article about Becoming a growth mindset school on page 2 of the SSAT journal here. Chew Valley School also has a teaching and learning blog charting our growth mindset journey. Growth Mindset is the brainchild of Carol Dweck.
The Daily Handbook for Extreme Leaders The Leadership Strategy of Jesus So much of the activity I see among leaders today is focused on reaching the masses. “Successful leaders” speak at big conferences, host popular television or radio shows, publish bestselling books, write successful blogs, or engage in social media. Sermon on the Mount by Cosimo Rosselli Simply put, their goal is breadth. Nothing wrong with that. His goal was not “reach” or popularity. On more than one occasion, after performing a jaw-dropping miracle, he told those who witnessed it, “Tell no one what you have seen” (see e.g., Matthew 8:4; 16:20; 17:9; Mark 7:36; 8:30; 9:9; Luke 5:14; and 8:56). He was a publicist’s nightmare. Instead, Jesus focused on true depth and long-term impact. He led himself. Jesus’ leadership strategy evidently worked well. Within seven generations (318 A.D.), the emperor Constantine accepted his message and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. And here I am, almost two millennia later, writing about it.
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