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Board Members Elected
Deborah Renee Jackson is special project administrator for Fairfax County Public Schools in McLean, Va. She works on the design and implementation of her school system’s new teacher..
Book Club
Schools Can Change: A Step-by-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning By Dale W. Lick, Karl H. Clauset, and Carlene U. Murphy ..
Cultural Proficiency
One of the most important concepts in cultural proficiency is understanding the extent to which culture affects every aspect of our lives. Cultural values acquired in childhood endure into adulthood a..
From The Editor
Think about a range of people widely considered to be leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi. One thing such leaders have in common is their role in making change happen. Through their..
Tool
Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning establish the core attributes of effective professional learning. Everyone with either direct or indirect responsibility for students’ educat..
Who Are The Advocates In Your school?
Here is a simple test: Identify leaders in your school system or school who are advocates for professional learning. The people you identify can be from any role group: school board member, central of..
What Leadership Looks Like
Finding out what instructional leadership looks like is at the center of a new trend in leadership development: videos of practice. These range from minimally edited videos of a leader’s own practic..
Out Of Isolation
Administrative demands, crisis management, and political challenges often strand superintendents miles away from the day-to-day work of teachers and students in the classroom. Even when superintendent..
Buoyed on All Sides
The idea of teacher leadership holds an immense and intuitive appeal. Most educators agree that teacher leaders are essential to fostering a climate of authentic and robust leadership and learning acr..
Wide-Open Opportunities
During a statewide literacy meeting, talk turned to reading resources and how to build literacy in schools across the state. “Our reading specialists are instrumental to improving literacy in our bu..
