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March 2019 | Volume 76 | Number 6
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Anthony Rebora
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Pete Hall
Effective administrators don't dance around teacher performance issues.
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
By highlighting models of stellar teaching, leaders can help teachers see where their practice can go.
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Mike Schmoker
Is your school trying to do too much?
Diane Sweeney and Ann Mausbach
How principals can partner with coaches to improve student achievement.
Craig Hochbein
Stop thinking of administrative tasks as burdens. Start thinking of them as opportunities.
Jennifer Gill
To help principals become better instructional leaders, districts are boosting on-the-job supports such as mentoring and coaching.
Jacy Ippolito and Douglas Fisher
Principals don't have to be experts in every subject area to lead disciplinary literacy efforts.
Charles Sampson, Jeff Moore and Rachel Roegman
How one district brought hidden academic inequities to light.
Shane Safir
Adopting an equity-centered coaching model for school leaders.
Jamel Adkins-Sharif
How one principal honed his role as a classroom-focused leader and learner.
Jeffrey Benson
Returning to the classroom part-time can be an enlightening—and humbling—experience.
Bryan Goodwin
They can't fly, but they can leap tall obstacles—if they stay balanced.
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Professional learning cycles can get teacher learning to stick. Watch the video.
Jill Harrison Berg
Are we ready to debunk the myth of the lone instructional leader?
Adam Alvarez
Small groups of committed teachers can drive change.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Effective leaders focus on purpose.
Readers share about leadership mistakes that turned into learning or growth opportunities.
Reader responses to recent issues of EL
An interview with the former high school teacher and middle school administrator and founder of professional development firm Mindsteps.
Findings from the Vanderbilt University study "Strategic Retention: Principal and Teacher Turnover in Multiple-Measure Teacher Evaluation Systems."
Baruti Kafele's new book, Is My School a Better School Because I Lead It?, encourages self-reflection to improve principals' performance.
Thomas R. Guskey and Laura J. Link
Getting the school team coordinated on grading and reporting policies—and the purpose of grading—is too often overlooked in instructional leadership.
Anne Vilen
How an urban elementary school uses data to help teachers drive their own improvement.
Susan Kessler, high school principal and author of The Principal's Survival Guide, shares tips for becoming a more effective instructional leader. Watch the video.
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