Focused Leadership

Instruction, Learning, and School Improvement

By (author) Roger E. Jones

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Publication date:

22 July 2014

Length of book:

108 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475810332

Building-level and central office administrators must be both instructional and learning leaders. Instructional leadership means focusing on teacher behaviors that support student learning and helping teachers make good decisions about their own behaviors in the classroom. Learning leadership focuses on the learning itself—how students absorb, process, and retain information.

This guide will assist administrators in their quest to be more effective at what they do; this is meant not as a prescriptive document, but rather a baseline from which to grow. This guide provides information about the intricacies of the teaching and learning process and how these elements are linked. Readers are encouraged to use the guide as a foundation, as a starting point to expand their own instructional and learning leadership. They should modify, add to, and personalize the guide as they challenge themselves to grow.

The guide encompasses many components, all of which are important. It should help administrators to know what to look for during an observation, and, perhaps even more important, topics of conversations to have with teachers. Transformational leadership begins with understanding teaching and learning as well as having the ability to generate quality conversations.

Introduction
Chapter One Planning
Chapter Three Learning Theory
Chapter Two Differentiation, Learning Styles, and Thinking Taxonomy
Chapter Four The Lesson Line
Chapter Five Research-Based Instructional Strategies
Chapter Six Practice and Retention
Chapter Seven Reinforcement and Intangibles
Chapter Eight Student Engagement
Chapter Nine Formative Assessment
Chapter Ten The Essential 12
Chapter Eleven Five Levels of Listening and Qualities of Effective Feedback
Chapter Twelve The School Improvement Process
Chapter Thirteen Creating a Culture of Achievement
Chapter Fourteen Instruction and Learning
Chapter Fifteen Expanding the Leadership Capacity of Others
Chapter Sixteen Establishing Cultural Change and Rebranding
Chapter Seventeen Final Thoughts

References and Further Readings
About the Author

Any administrator, new or seasoned, can use this book as a guide to not only do the right thing but to do what is right to move a school forward and contribute to the success of each child and teacher.