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    Transformational Leadership for Rapid School Improvement

    Kevin Perks (Edited by), Terry Hofer (Foreword by), Charles S. Dedrick (Afterword by)

    9780807769553

    Hardback, published 22 March 2024

    224 pages
    23.5 x 16.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.272 kg

    To address today's numerous goals and challenges, K–12 schools need transformational leaders—leaders able to substantively enhance and improve educational systems and educator practices in order to achieve better, longer-lasting outcomes for all students. This practical resource is for superintendents, principals, and other education leaders who are charged with rapidly improving their schools and districts. Grounded in WestEd's research-based and field-tested Four Domains of Rapid School Improvement framework, this book offers guidance, support, and resources in the areas of school turnaround, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift. Every chapter includes prompts to encourage reflection and discussion with colleagues, as well as action steps to put guidance into practice. Transformational Leadership for Rapid School Improvement can be used as a text for educational leadership courses and for professional learning with practicing principals and superintendents.

    Book Features:

    • A collection of research-supported, field-tested leadership strategies to elicit rapid school improvement.
    • Recommendations from education leaders and experts with deep experience engaging in successful school improvement efforts.
    • Chapters organized according to four domains: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.
    • Timely topics such as leading with empathy, fostering teacher motivation, understanding the intersectionality of social–emotional learning, supporting trauma-informed practices, culturally responsive teaching, and critical race theory.
    • Prompts in every chapter to encourage reflection and discussion with colleagues.

    • Contents (Tentative)

    Foreword

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Part I: Introduction—Turnaround Leadership

    1.   Leading with Empathy: Leveraging an Essential Leadership Trait

  • Michael P. Nagler

    2.   Culturally Responsive Schools Start with Culturally Responsive Leaders

  • Saroja R. Warner

    3.   Is an Equity Audit in Your Future?

  • Shandy Hauk and Joyce Kaser

    4.   Planning and Implementing a Special Education Program Review

  • Nancy Hurley, Kristin Reedy, and Dona Meinders

    Part II: Talent Development

    5.   Supporting Educator Wellbeing: Strategies for Self-Care

  • Christina Pate

    6.   Strengthening Staff Motivation and Morale

  • Michael Middleton and Kevin Perks

    7.   Achieving the Promise of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

  • Kevin Perks

    Part III: Instructional Transformation

    8.   Understanding How Social–Emotional Learning, Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education and Critical Race Theory Intersect

  • Andrea Browning and Saroja R. Warner

    9.   Conducting a Targeted Curriculum Review

  • Robert Rosenfeld

    10.   Leading Formative Assessment to Improve Student Agency

  • Nancy Gerzon

    Part IV: Culture Shift

    11.   School Climate Essentials: A Call to Action

  • Shazia Hashmi, Rebeca Cerna, and Alexis Stern

    12.   Foundations of Trauma-Informed Practice in Education

  • Christina Pate, Nakanya Magby, and Jenny Betz

    13.   Building on Family and Community Strengths

  • Maria Paredes

    14.   Deepening Understanding to Support Transgender Youth

  • Deborah A. Bradley and Stephen C. Hamilton

    Afterword

    Index

    About the Editor and Contributors

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