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What Every Principal Should Know About Instructional Leadership

By: Jeffrey Glanz

Inspire schoolwide instructional excellence!

How can principals efficiently and effectively fulfill their critical role as the school's primary instructional leader? This concise yet comprehensive guide outlines an easy-to-implement blueprint for spearheading instructional excellence to bolster student and teacher performance. It offers a proactive approach for setting and attaining high academic goals and boils down the best practices for enhancing:

Teaching
Curriculum
Supervision/assessment
Professional development

From the latest research to real-life scenarios, this first volume in a seven-part series shares tangible strategies for mentoring and meaningfully engaging teachers to maximize instructional prowess and student achievement.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412915861
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2005
Page Count: 144
Publication date: October 13, 2005

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Inspire schoolwide instructional excellence!

Among the numerous factors that influence student learning, quality instruction is at the heart. However, in the face of administrative duties, logistical tasks, and disciplinary responsibilities, many principals struggle with how to efficiently and effectively fulfill their critical role as the school's primary instructional leader.

This concise yet comprehensive guide outlines an easy-to-implement blueprint for spearheading instructional excellence to bolster student and teacher performance. It offers a proactive approach for setting and attaining high academic goals and boils down the best practices for enhancing teaching, curriculum, supervision, assessment, and professional development.

From the latest research to real-life scenarios, this first volume in a seven-part series shares tangible strategies for mentoring and meaningfully engaging teachers to maximize instructional prowess and student achievement. Highlights include:

"Before We Get Started" questionnaire and response analysis
Case study and accompanying reflective questions
"What You Should Know About" section framing each chapter
Self-assessment resource for determining effectiveness of instructional leaders
26 best practice behaviors for principal leadership

Other titles in this leadership series:

What Every Principal Should Know About Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Operational Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About School-Community Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Strategic Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Collaborative Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Cultural Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Ethical and Spiritual Leadership

Author(s)

Jeffrey Glanz

Jeffrey Glanz currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for University-School Partnership, Director of the Masters Program and the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. Prior to coming to YU, Dr. Glanz served as Dean of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Department of Education at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. He also coordinated the educational leadership program that led to New York State certification as a principal and assistant principal. Prior to arriving at Wagner, he served as executive assistant to the president of Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Dr. Glanz held faculty status as a tenured professor in the Department of Instruction and Educational Leadership at Kean University’s College of Education. He was named Graduate Teacher of the Year in 1999 by the Student Graduate Association and was also that year’s recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholarship. He served as a teacher and assistant principal in the New York City public schools. He has conducted numerous workshops and seminars internationally. Dr. Glanz has authored, coauthored, and co-edited 20 books and has many peer-reviewed article publications.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Questionnaire: Before We Get Started...

1. Introduction

Case Study and Reflective Questions

2. Best Practices in Teaching

Reflective Practice

Pre-Planning

Incorporating Academic Allocated, Instructional, Engaged, Success Time

Using Wait Time

Using Direct Instruction

Incorporating Literacy Strategies

Differentiating Instruction

Using Divergent Questioning Techniques

Seeing Teaching in Action

Learning by Doing

Conclusion

3. Best Practices in Curriculum

Understand the Importance of Curriculum, and Assess Your Knowledge of Curriculum

Understand the Three Types of Curriculum

Understand the Three Approaches to Curriculum

Understand and Use the Tyler Model to Develop Curriculum

Understand the Curriculum Development Process

Understand How to Develop Quality Curriculum

Understand and Use Curriculum Standards

Conclusion

4. Best Practices in Supervision and Professional Development

Implement Clinical Supervision

Encourage Action Research

Collaboratively Plan and Implement Professional Development

Promote Instruction through PCOWBIRDS

Conclusion

5. Promoting Student Achievement for All

26 Best Practice Leadership Principal Behaviors

Conclusion: Making the Time for Instructional Leadership

Resource A. Realities of Instructional Leadership: In-Basket Simulations

Resource B. Assessing Your Role as Instructional Leader

Resource C. An Annotated Bibliography of Best Resources

References

Index

Reviews

"Written for the practicing principal, the book offers many valuable suggestions that can be implemented throughout the year."

Principal Navigator, September 2007

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