Todays Central Office
October 2014
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Learningforward.org
Professional Learning Initiative Analysis: A Workbook for States and Districts Given what system leaders must accomplish with limited resources, they must make bold decisions about their current investments to achieve […]
Eyes On The Prizewinners
The Learning Forward Foundation has grown from a fundraising organization that supports learning for superintendents, principals, learning teams, and individuals to become a more robust system of responsibility and accountability to donors and recipients.
From The Director
Standards serve as guideposts for today’s central office. (Available to the public.)
Abstracts
Abstracts
Leadership Society
Leadership Society
Book Club
Book Club
On Board
On Board
Learning Forward By The Numbers
Learning Forward by the numbers
Lessons From Research
Study links professional learning to impact on students’ civic literacy. (Available to the public.)
Tool
Protocol for establishing a theory of change.
Essentials
Teachers on Common Core, School leadership, Americans on schools, Coaching and planning tools, Reducing turnover, Student-centered practices, Educator engagement
From The Editor
What a cutting-edge central office staff needs to know. (Available to the public.)
From Theory To Action
A Wisconsin high school’s turnaround is attributable to the coalescence of distributed instructional leadership around three essentials of strong professional learning communities: a focus on learning, collaborative culture, and results orientation.
A Fresh Approach For Fresh Faces
Central office leaders in the Peel District School Board in Ontario, Canada, take on new roles to support beginning teachers and mentors as part of a mandate for all 72 districts within the province.
To Move Your Career Forward - Retreat
It is all too easy in the fast-paced life of the central office to lose sight of things that really matter. A personal retreat offers the opportunity to look at your work from a distance to be sure it’s becoming the picture you want it to be.
Beyond Buses, Boilers, and Books
School districts are experimenting with several strategies to build up the role of principals’ managers in the central office as a means to improve principal effectiveness and provide instructional support. This article is sponsored by The Wallace Foundation. (Available to the public.)
Learning To Be A Change Agent
Professional learning institutes for system-level leaders simultaneously build participants’ knowledge about the content of the literacy-based reform and leading and supporting implementation.
Partners In Achievement
The central office of Saskatoon Public Schools in Saskatchewan, Canada, has built a structure that supports the work of its schools. The central office facilitates planning to clarify goals, helps narrow the focus, marshals evidence of progress, and lays a research foundation for district leadership and teaching practices.
Wisdom From The Factory Floor
Instead of trying to control change, central office staff at Hastings (Nebraska) Public Schools create the conditions for change to occur: They focus their efforts, build the capacity of people in the district, and monitor implementation.
Champions Of Learning
Fort Wayne (Indiana) Community Schools takes a proactive approach to support educators and increase student outcomes through a focus on district and principal leadership, learning teams, effective learning designs, and deep commitment to a culture of learning. (Available to the public.)
Up Close
Analyze your district’s learning plan, Are we stuck in the past or moving ahead?, What superintendents say, What’s inside
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