School Leadership

This book describes and demystifies the factors that have helped accomplished schools generate successful and equitable outcomes for all their students, regardless of racial/ethnic background, language, or income. Grounded in observations of award-winning schools and high-functioning teams that have achieved impressive results, this practical resource explores success from the perspective of leadership teams. As a K-12 educator at any level of leadership or within a leadership team, you can influence the success of all groups of students!

Whether you're discussing the terms of a high-stakes deal, forming a key partnership, asking for a raise, or planning a family event, negotiating can be stressful. One person makes a demand, the other concedes a point. In the end, you settle on a subpar solution in the middle—if you come to any agreement at all. But these discussions don't need to be win-or-lose situations. Written by negotiation expert Jeff Weiss, the HBR Guide to Negotiating provides a disciplined approach to finding a solution that works for everyone involved.

In this story filled with “romantic tension, royal drama, and family secrets” (Kristy Boyce), four teens living in a glamorous boarding school must compete in order to inherit a European kingdom. Perfect for fans of Elite and Maxton Hall—The World Between Us. For fifty years, King Leander...

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives—now updated for today’s social media age. In this newly revised edition, Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to...

The purpose of international schools' athletics programs is to best prepare its students for the next level of life, not the next level of athletics. This global playbook focuses on six key elements that all schools need to excel in in order to raise the game of their entire school: core, commitment, care, culture, competition, and communication. If you are a director, principal, teacher, coach, athletic director, or anyone involved in an international school, this book is for you!

A heartfelt, hands-on guide to setting boundaries, increasing productivity, and finding fulfillment for teachers who know that their classrooms won’t thrive unless they do. Over time, teachers internalize myths about their success that cause them to fall out of love with teaching. “I’ll...

Is successful leadership measured simply by the outcomes a leader achieves, or is there another—more essential—yardstick for measuring success? In Redefining Leadership, author, pastor, and college president Joe Stowell shows us that the best leaders are driven by Christ-formed character...

You can have a satisfying career. Are you a school principal who is completely fed up with conflicting priorities and misalignment in our nation’s schools? It’s no surprise you feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Every day, you deal with federal and state regulations, district policies, and parental pressures. The expectations on educators are higher than ever, tempting many principals to consider alternate livelihoods. How amazing would it feel to take control of your own career and make decisions from a place of empowerment and clarity? Listen to find out more.

Army Ranger School. Experience the inspiring true stories of Army Rangers going through the leadership crucible of Army Ranger School. Great for any listener looking for adventure and perspective in these tough times. The challenge, the pain, and the leadership value of US Army Ranger School have been squeezed into this book. Experience the first book to illuminate the best leadership school in the US Army; Ranger School.

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Dr. Stephen R. Covey illustrates how his principles of leadership can be applied to children of all ages. In today’s world, we are inundated with information about who to be, what to do, and how to live...

How you create a legendary school starting tomorrow. Have you ever wondered, why didn’t they teach me about this in school?

This audiobook provides you with the keys to having an outstanding career as a school leader. The American educational system is in crisis; trends of recent years have been extraordinarily hard on educators. An entire generation of school leaders is retiring, many of them early, and the number of candidates applying to replace them is plummeting. In many districts, applications have shrunk by nearly two-thirds.

What does it take to have fearless schools? It starts with psychological safety-students, teachers, and leaders who know that mistakes are the source of learning, not shame or embarrassment. In order for great learning to take place, we first must build the trust and resilience needed to produce fearless students, teachers, and leaders - and ultimately create fearless schools.

If you want to transform your school culture, boost staff morale, and elevate student achievement through empathetic leadership, then you need to listen to Leading With Empathy!

This article is about leadership through the eyes someone who started as an instructional aid and ended his career as a superintendent. In between he served as a teacher, counselor, assistant principal, principal of six schools, director, assistant superintendent, college professor and finally-superintendent. He opened a new high school and led the process of building a school culture from the ground up. In his final year he conducted a variety of workshops for the young administrative team.

Written in a highly accessible, anecdotal style, Turn Can’t into Next: Leadership Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks weaves leadership lessons, storytelling, and humor together in a way that will resonate with listeners with varying levels of professional experience and across various industries who are looking to become better leaders. The book is a fascinating journey full of stories and hard lessons learned over Gerry Cadorath’s more than 40-year career with his family business.

If you're going to climb a tree would you rather hire a squirrel or train a horse? That's the premise for this very clever and insightful audiobook. Mac Anderson shares his 30-plus years of leadership experience in a fresh and engaging manner. A must-have guide for every leader - this audiobook will help you hire better people, become a better leader, get more done in less time and ignite your team to perform to their highest potential.

The Distance Learning Playbook for School Leaders applies the wisdom and evidence of the VISIBLE LEARNING® research to understand what works best. Spanning topics from school climate at a distance, leader credibility, care for self and colleagues, instructional leadership teams, stakeholder advisory groups, and virtual visibility, this comprehensive playbook details the research- and evidence-based strategies school leaders can mobilize to lead the delivery of high-impact learning in an online, virtual, and distributed environment.

Breakthrough Principals debunks the myth of the 'superhero' principal by detailing the common actions and practices of leaders at our nation's fastest-gaining public schools. Based on the authors' Transformational Leadership Framework, which they developed through in-depth study of more than 100 high-gaining, high-poverty schools, the book distills findings into a practical, action-focused plan for diagnosing school needs and implementing structures, systems and practices that accelerate student achievement.

Most preaching and teaching in the church engages only one of the senses—hearing. In The Power of Multisensory Preaching and Teaching, Rick Blackwood shows how recognizing and engaging the multiple senses of the congregation can lead to greater impact.Blackwood presents both biblical evidence...