Leading With Intention: Eight Areas for Reflection and Planning in Your PLC at Work® (40+ Educational Leadership Practices You Can Use in Your School Today)

As a school leader, your influence and impact on students, staff, and families is beyond measure. Designed as a guide and reflective tool, Leading With Intention will help focus your invaluable everyday work. The authors provide in-depth advice and actionable steps for creating a highly effective school culture in which leaders and teachers collaborate, make evidence-based decisions, and most importantly, believe students are the top priority.

Effective school leadership practices for your professional development:

• Explore eight interrelated areas of school leadership that will assist you in becoming a more synergistic leader.
• Explore four concepts essential to your work in leading schools: collaboration, a shared leadership model, evidence-based decision-making, and a focus on learning.
• Learn how to enhance student achievement in your school or district with the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ (PLC) process.
• Acquire 40+ specific instructional leadership actions you can put into practice immediately.
• Access leadership reflection questions and downloadable reproducibles designed to support your educational leadership development.

Contents:
Introduction: Using Your Great Power as a Leader Chapter 1: Achieving Focus and Staying Intentional Chapter 2: Establishing and Maintaining Organization Chapter 3: Building Shared Leadership Chapter 4: Using Evidence for Decision Making and Action Chapter 5: Prioritizing the Student Chapter 6: Leading Instruction Chapter 7: Fostering Communication Chapter 8: Developing Community and Relationships Afterword: Creating the Future References and Resources