Education - Leadership

Safety. It's a basic human need, a workplace right, a misunderstood concept with situational importance, and a challenging word to apply. It's also a science. To be safe, you need to know about things like electrical theory, ergonomics, and standards applicable to your work....

Coaching strategies and resources that will give new teachers a head start toward a successful first year--and a great teaching career Over the past 20 years, more new teachers than ever have entered the teaching profession. These educators are eager to do the best...

The insider's guide to turning your run-of-the-mill coaching job into a wildly powerful coaching practice that boosts teacher skill and student scores! Here you have it...again! You learned in Jill's first book, Get a Backbone, Principal!, how to get rid of fancy educational jargon...

Establish a culture of coaching at your school in which any conversation can turn into a moment of professional growth. As a principal, coach, or instructional leader, you are responsible for helping to shape the professional development of the teachers in your school. Every...

Eliminate school discipline and classroom management problems with schoolwide restorative justiceWashington Post bestseller Hacking School Discipline brought restorative practice to classrooms around the world. The sequel, Hacking School Discipline TOGETHER, is helping all stakeholders--teachers, students, counselors, principals, superintendents, and parents--create a schoolwide restorative justice...

Heart Over Hype: Transforming Higher Ed Marketing with Empathy is a bold call to action for higher education marketers, enrollment professionals, communicators, and leaders who believe there's a better way to connect with audience-one rooted in authenticity, compassion, and trust. Drawing on real-world experience,...

Teaching is more than a career-it's a calling. Whether you're starting out or have been in the classroom for decades, you've likely felt the weight of this work. Teaching is one of the most emotionally demanding professions. Many educators-new and veteran alike-feel overburdened, undervalued,...

The Holy Grail of Marketing is not just a theoretical concept; it is a practical approach to achieving marketing success. It is about reaching the Right person with the Right message at the Right time within the Right environment, all leading to the Right...

The best schools embrace accountability--they don't run from it. You've got strong teachers. A solid plan. Deep belief in your students. So why are you still getting inconsistent results? Why do some teachers thrive while others struggle with the same expectations? Make no mistake:...

Jonathan Conyers introduces us to the teachers, his debate coach, and a boy named Diego who changed his life. Everybody was rooting for Jonathan Conyers after his inspiring story went viral, sparked millions in donations to the Brooklyn Debate League, and captured the heart...

Your instructional leadership can make the difference between isolated classroom success and systematic, collective achievement.Strong instructional leadership is the cornerstone of student success. But what truly makes an instructional leader effective, and how can you foster a collaborative environment where teacher teams thrive? In...

Indigenous Educational Leadership Through Community-Based Knowledge and Research highlights the Native American Leadership in Education (NALE) heartwork. The edited collection illuminates the beauty and essence of NALE, which uniquely conceptualizes Indigenous leadership identity, philosophy, community leadership, and research in ways that have empowered students...

Leadership isn't about authority - it's about influence.In Influence, Dr Judi Newman reveals how understanding the brain through a neuroscience lens can transform your ability to inspire, unite and deliver results. Drawing from her PhD research shadowing high-performing school principals, Newman demonstrates that without...

The answer to creating innovative teaching and learning opportunities lies within you.Every educator faces constraints--from budget restrictions to predetermined curriculum to "one-size-fits-all" mandatory assessments. The question is, how can you, as a teacher or administrator, ensure that regulations and limitations don't impede authentic learning?In...

Effective instructional leadership doesn't just happen - it's created by design. Research shows it has a greater impact on student outcomes than any other form of school leadership, yet developing this capability remains one of education's most pressing challenges.Instructional Leadership: 15 High-Impact Practices to...

Applying the findings from the science of reading as well as the research on school leadership and highly effective schools, authors Pati Montgomery and Angela Hanlin guide principals and leaders on how to build systems and structures needed to ensure quality literacy instruction. Principals...

What if learning was exciting? What if students felt important and empowered every time they walked into the building? What if parents looked forward to calls from their children's teachers and principals, instead of cringing when the school's number popped up on their phones?...

A roadmap for running a lab--and developing the leadership skills you didn't know you needed. As a graduate student and postdoctoral researcher, chemist Jen Heemstra learned how to collect data, write papers, and give talks to other scientists. But when, just a few years...

Authentic short stories from a career Marine and combat veteranUsing skillful storytelling, hilarious episodes are presented alongside heartbreaking tales from war and its aftermath.Laughing & Crying as a U.S. Marine contains 50 stories drawn from over 25 years of service in every clime and...

Get the book that started the revolution! Sooner or later, all of us will be called upon to lead in some capacity. Leadership skills are vital in corporate settings, small businesses, churches, community organizations, and even at home. Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward have...