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Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership

Second Edition
By: Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

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Make a substantive impact on the lives of your students and your staff. This practical, hands-on guide will help you become a more effective instructional leader. Here are research-based activities to help you lead your staff through McEwan's seven steps:

Establish, implement, and achieve academic standards
Be an instructional resource for your staff
Create a learning-oriented school culture and climate
Communicate your school's vision and mission to staff and students
Set high expectations for your staff and yourself
Develop teacher leaders
Develop and maintain positive relationships with students, staff, and parents

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761946304
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2002
Page Count: 216
Publication date: September 06, 2002

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Updated Edition of Best Seller!

"You won't find a more practical, detailed guide to improving school effectiveness than is contained between the covers of this book!"
Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean School of Education
University of La Verne
La Verne, CA

"Few books on school leadership have effectively brought together the best of educational theory and practice for school administrators as Elaine McEwan's Seven Steps to Instructional Leadership."
Michael Pladus
1999 MetLife/NASSP National Principal of the Year

Have the courage and the vision to lead your staff to achieve their highest instructional goals!

Make a substantive impact on the lives of your students and your staff. This practical, hands-on guide can help you become a more effective instructional leader. Here are research-based activities to help you lead your staff though McEwans's seven steps:

Establish, implement, and achieve academic standards
Be an instructional resource for your staff
Create a learning-oriented school culture and climate
Communicate your school's vision and mission to staff and students
Set high expectations for your staff and yourself
Develop teacher leaders
Develop and maintain positive relationships with students, staff, and parents

Integrate these seven steps into your daily behavior. Chapters on each step include research data, discussion and advice from instructional leaders, and practical suggestions from dozens of leading principals that you can use right now in your own school.

Use the Instructional Leadership Checklist to:

Assess your current level of instructional leadership
Find out how your staff thinks you're doing
Set goals for improving your instructional leadership practice
Evaluate your progress toward your goals

Attaining a new and higher level of instructional leadership will make a difference for each person in your school. Staff, students, and parents will get the message that all students matter. Everyone will start expecting that all students can learn, and your school will achieve its mission—improving education.

Author(s)

Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

Elaine K. McEwan is an educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001).

McEwan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (EdD) from Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Step One: Establish, Implement, and Achieve Academic Standards

2. Step Two: Be an Instructional Resource for Your Staff

3. Step Three: Create a School Culture and Climate Conducive to Learning

4. Step Four: Communicate the Vision and Mission of Your School

5. Step Five: Set High Expectations for Your Staff and Yourself

6. Step Six: Develop Teacher Leaders

7. Step Seven: Establish and Maintain Positive Relationships With Students, Staff, and Parents

Conclusion

Resource A: Instructional Leadership Checklist

Resource B: Instructional Leadership Checklist Response Form

Resource C: Elizabeth McCay's Assignment

References

Index

Reviews

You won't find a more practical, detailed guide to improving school effectiveness than is contained between the covers of this book!

Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean School of Education
University of La Verne

Few books on school leadership have effectively brought together the best of educational theory and practice for school administrators as Elaine McEwan's Seven Steps to Instructional Leadership has.

Michael Pladus, 1999 MetLife/NASSP National Principal of the Year

This is an outstanding book with practical, ready to use suggestions as to how to improve teaching and learning in our schools. As practitioners, the students found the books to be researched-based, easy to absorb, clearly defined traits and descriptors, with stories to bring clarity to the traits, and with meaningful reflection activities to focus on present and future practices.

Pauli Nikolay, Adjunct Professor
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

The book is an excellent resource for self assessment or a tool for gaining feedback from staff.

The School Administrator, June 2003

There is a good balance between the summary of research and references to the aquired wisdom born out of first-hand experience.

School Leadership & Management, February 2004

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