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Keeping Teams Positive, Perceptive, and Productive: Five Leadership Practices That Build Sustainable, High-Performing Educational Teams
This Blog explores a fundamental problem that both NASA (on its missions to Mars) and school leaders (relative to committees and teams that work together for many years) must solve: Why the initial en...
Read Full ArticleEvaluating the Essential Characteristics of Staff Cohesion and Collaboration: Assessing This Summer What You Want to See This Fall (Part IV)
The Blog discusses the seven characteristics (the “7 C’s”) of staff cohesion and collaboration: Communication, Caring, Commitment, Collaboration, Consultation, Celebration, and Consistency. The resear...
Read Full ArticlePreparing for Excellence This Coming School Year: Summer Planning to Strategically Transform Classroom Instruction (Part I)
Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to drive school improvement during the coming new school year. Focusing on improving classroom instruction, the Blog outlines seven research...
Read Full ArticleStudents’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss
This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...
Read Full ArticleDelegating Duties and Decisions in a Shared Leadership School: Avoiding Staff Reservations or Resentment
This Blog discusses the significant benefits of having a Shared Leadership structure and process in every school across the country. The structure is defined by seven research-to-practice components e...
Read Full ArticleSpeed Counts When Making Successful Changes Across Your District or School—When to Go Slow and When to Go Fast
This Blog emphasizes that the success of a district or school’s change process or initiative often rests on the speed of its implementation. We review ten variables that help determine if a change pro...
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