Maximizing Your Assistant Principals and Instructional Coaches Instructionally

How to Scale Your Impact with AI Tools

Understanding Culturally Responsive Principal Pipelines

Leading the Change: Transforming School Climate and Culture

School Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Kafele is one of the most sought-after school leadership experts in North America. He is the author of 13 books, including The Aspiring Principal 50 and his seven ASCD bestsellers: The Assistant Principal 50, Closing the Attitude Gap, The Equity and Social Justice Education 50, Is My School a Better School Because I Lead It?, Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life, The Principal 50, and The Teacher 50. Kafele can be reached via his website.

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Baruti Kafele will lead a focused conversation on maximizing the instructional impact of assistant principals and instructional coaches. Learn how to create conditions that support effective coaching and instructional growth.

About the presenter

Baruti K. Kafele, a highly regarded urban educator in New Jersey for more than 20 years, has distinguished himself as a master teacher and a transformational school leader. As an elementary school teacher in East Orange, New Jersey, he was named East Orange School District and Essex County Public Schools Teacher of the Year, and he was a finalist for New Jersey State Teacher of the Year. As a middle and high school principal, he led the transformation of four different New Jersey urban schools.

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