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Standards for Professional Learning
- Article: Aligned standards keep students, teachers, and leaders moving in the same direction
- Article: Leaders play key roles in implementing standards
- Blog post: How states embed Standards for Professional Learning
- Blog post: Leaders voice how revised professional learning standards are transformative
- Book: Action Guide for the Principal: Implementation Strategies and Innovation Configuration Maps for Standards for Professional Learning
- Interactive tools: Innovation Configuration maps for Principals and System/Central Office
- Webinar: Setting the standard for school success: The Power of the principalship
- Webinar: Standards for Professional Learning at all levels of the system
Leadership Webinars
- Building a continuum of leadership learning and support: Principals and central office
- Defining and growing your leadership style
- Equity-centered leadership in challenging times
- How principals affect students and schools: Leading learning in a virtual world
- The Learning Principal: Living equity-centered leadership
- The role of principal supervisors in challenging times: Focus on teaching and learning
- Taking the lead: Roles for teachers and teacher leaders
The Learning Professional
Leadership-Focused Journal Issues
- Leading for Equity – December 2021
- Leadership Under Pressure – October 2021
- Resilient Leadership – October 2019
- Learning Leaders for Learning Systems – February 2018
- Principal Learning – June 2017
- Pathways to Leadership (JSD) – October 2015
Featured Leadership Articles
- 5 core roles of central office learning leaders
- 5 pivotal practices that shape instructional leadership
- Asking good questions is a leader’s superpower
- District leaders set the stage for equity-focused learning
- Districts collaborate to strengthen principal practices
- Four roots of anti-racist leadership – and how to cultivate them
- How school leaders manage stress and stay focused
- How teachers learn to lead
- Leaders play key roles in the professional learning ecosystem
- Let’s get specific about how leaders can build trust
- No principal is an island
- Principal turnover is too high. Principal supervisors can help
- Principals rediscover their joy and purpose through coaching
- The principal’s coach
- Tackling instructional mismatch
Columnists
Author: Frederick Brown
- Celebrating principals and their powerful leadership practices
- Investments in principals are investments in teachers
- Learning leaders for learning schools
- New report highlights the importance of principal supervisors
- No more random acts of professional learning
- The Principal Pipeline Initiative: Unpacking the effects
- What professional learning leaders can learn from Disney
- Why principals matter more than ever
Author: Baruti K. Kafele
Infographics & Tools
Bookstore
- Action Guide for the Principal: Implementation Strategies and Innovation Configuration Maps for Standards for Professional Learning
- The Learning Principal, Becoming a Learning Leader (Psencik, Brown, Hirsh; Learning Forward 2020)
