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Build better schools by training better leaders


A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership answers the question that district leaders have been asking across the country: if Leverage Leadership is a roadmap for principals on how to lead great schools, what can principal managers and districts do to support them on that path? A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership offers a step-by-step guide to coaching principals to the highest levels of achievement, and it is rooted in studying the most successful principal managers and districts across the country. It can be used by principal managers/supervisors, superintendents, district and state leadership, and principal training organizations to accelerate the growth of principals in your community. Used in conjunction with Leverage Leadership 2.0, this book identifies the key actions principal managers should take to create exceptional school leaders, integrating the seven levers of leadership into district culture from the principal manager on up. With a particular emphasis on the two "super-levers" of data-driven instruction and student culture, this book is packed with advice, professional development materials, and real-world videos of principal managers in action, offering principal managers a valuable resource for bringing about change.


A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership introduces a new unifying approach that is also highlighted in Leverage Leadership 2.0: See It, Name It, Do It. It gives you the tools to See it (see models of effective practice and identify gaps), Name it (name concrete actions for improvement) and Do it (provide means to practice these action steps until a principal masters them)


With A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership in hand, principal managers, superintendents and principal training organizations can facilitate district-wide and state-wide transformations and hasten the benefit to the students and community as a whole.

A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0

DVD Video Content ix





DVD Additional Materials xiii





Acknowledgments xix





About the Author xxi





Introduction 1





A Paradigm Shift: From Administration to Instruction 2





A "Practical Guide": What You'll Find in the Book 6





Who Should Use This Book-and How 11





The Path Ahead 13





PART 1 What to Coach 15





1 A Primer on Leverage Leadership 17





The Seven Levers of Leadership 20





See It. Name It. Do It. 22





How to Lift the Levers 23





Conclusion 26





2 Identifying the Right Action Steps 27





Criteria for Principal Action Steps 30





How to Use the Leverage Leadership Sequence of Action Steps for Principals 37





Case Studies-Try It Yourself 37





Conclusion 44





Pulling the Lever 66





PART 2 How to Coach 69





3 Coaching Data-Driven Instruction 71





Set the Table: A Primer on the Conditions for Success District Wide 75





Monitor the Learning 89





Coach by Example: Lead Data Meetings 104





Coach by Doing: Monitor Student Work 110





Conclusion 119





Pulling the Lever 124





4 Coaching Student Culture 127





Train the Rollout 130





Monitor Culture 133





Coach by Walking 136





Coach by Meeting 138





The 30-Day Playbook 146





Conclusion 149





Pulling the Lever 155





5 Coaching Teams of Principals 157





Establish the Norm-One School 159





Observe Each Other-Collaborative School Walkthroughs 161





Practice Together-Team Coaching 165





Conclusion 170





Pulling the Lever 170





PART 3 Systems 173





6 Finding the Time 175





Build Your Weekly Schedule 177





Defend Your Time 187





Manage Your Tasks 187





Conclusion 191





Pulling the Lever 192





7 A Superintendent's Guide to Creating the Conditions for Success 195





Maximize Time in Schools 196





Build Data-Driven Instruction Systems 199





Provide Flexible Support for Turnarounds 200





Conclusion 201





Conclusion 203





PART 4 Professional Development 205





8 Workshops: Overview and Highlights 207





Workshop Overview: Data-Driven Instruction for Principal Managers 208





Workshop Overview: Leading Student Culture for Principal Managers 218





Notes 225





Index 229