The pandemic has led to powerful shifts in practice and perspective, writes *EL* columnist Jill Harrison Berg. These mindset shifts—among students and teachers—stand to have a “profound and lasting impact on instructional effectiveness.”

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To ensure students receive the best instruction, principals and teacher leaders must keep a finger on the pulse of the latest advances in the field, says Educational Leadership columnist Jill Harrison Berg. Leaders can begin with their school's own priorities, identify a range of resources for these priorities, and regularly engage educators in critical dialogue with them. Part of a theme issue on "From Research to Practice."

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True empowerment comes from helping others tap the power in themselves, write Jill Harrison Berg and Monakatellia Ford Walker. These key leadership moves, they explain, can help school leaders create the conditions for "teachers' superpowers to activate and align."

Monakatellia Ford Walker

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Capacity building

Principal

Distributed Leadership

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Leadership

When it comes to advancing equity, individual teacher change is a starting point. But it must be matched by organizational change. Here, Jill Harrison Berg and her coauthor Elizabeth C. Homan share three critically important conditions to ensuring a school district—as an organization—can learn alongside individual educators on the path toward equity. Part of a theme issue on "Equity in Action."

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Systems change

Cultural competency

School and district management

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Equity

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Leading In Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning (Print Book)

Leading In Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning

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