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Being a Successful Principal: Riding the Wave of Change Without Drowning: This book, written by principals for principals, covers a variety of topics including trust, change, assessment, and mediating.
Living on a Tightrope: A Survival Handbook for Principals: This handbook of activities helps principals reflect on and analyze how they react in typical situations that they face daily.
Leadership for Changing Schools: This kit provides seven training modules to guide district leaders and teams as they work with individual schools to make the changes needed to provide a high-quality education for every child.
Learning Together, Leading Together: Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities: This book presents a clear definition of a professional learning community and offers practical advice from schools that have successfully modeled or are creating such communities.
Professional Learning Communities: An Ongoing Exploration: This book reviews the five dimensions along which a school staff must operate to develop a professional learning community and discusses the role such a community plays in school reform.
Promoting Technology Leadership: This series of professional development activities is designed for school administrators who need to help school leaders learn more about technology planning and integration for their campus or school district.
Working Systemically in Action: A Guide for Facilitators: Produced by a team of SEDL staff who drew upon more than 3 decades of school reform research and theory, the Working Systemically approach is a process for school improvement and increased student achievement that focuses on key components and competencies at all levels of the local educational system.
The Professional Teaching and Learning Cycle: Introduction: The professional teaching and learning cycle (PTLC) is a professional development process in which teachers collaboratively plan and implement lessons aligned to state standards. PTLC is a critical component of the Working Systemically approach that directly impacts classroom instruction and student learning.