Learn how to adapt leadership and keep motivation alive in a remote learning setting or hybrid school. In this essential book, bestselling authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn share frameworks and tools you can use to immediately make a difference in your school. You’ll learn how to:

• Navigate the change process in remote learning
• Maintain a collaborative remote learning school
• Address equity issues in remote instruction
• Communicate effectively across online platforms
• Provide essential professional development remotely

You will gain practical strategies and tips you can implement immediately to help your school and community flourish in a remote learning environment.

Raise the level of rigor in your school and dramatically improve student learning with the tools in this book. Each illuminating exercise is tailored to educators looking to spread the word on rigor and beat the obstacles to achieving it schoolwide. Formatted for duplication and repeated use, these tools are perfect for those who currently hold a leadership position, who aspire to a leadership role, and for those who simply are leaders within their schools or departments.

Sample tools include:

• Assess where you are now
• Recognize the right people
• Evaluate and adjust curriculum
• Design an advocacy plan
• Ensure accountability with parents
• Use your school's schedule to increase rigor
• And more!
• Apply the courage of principals and the energy of teacher leaders as you work to provide every student with a rigorous education. This toolkit will take you through each step of the way to improved rigor and achievement.

Review from Middleweb (1st Edition)

In today’s educational climate, advocacy is a critical part of any teacher or leader’s job. Advocacy from A to Z unpacks the difficult task of understanding the movers and shakers—including teachers, parents, the union, legislatures, and policy makers—that impact your school, affect your students, and shape policy. 

Organized into 26 chapters—one for each letter of the alphabet—this book provides school-based examples and specific strategies needed to be a successful advocate for education. 

Advocacy begins at the local level, and the newest book in the A to Z series helps educational leaders navigate, plan, and shape their message to the right people at the right time. 

Now you can find your voice and become an active advocate to help your students succeed. 

(As a bonus, Barbara wrote this book with her Dad!!)

Like the other books in the A-Z series, this book provides practical tools and activities that can be used immediately to improve your practice. This guide offers specific strategies that will help you become a more effective principal. There are 26 chapters in this book, one for each letter of the alphabet. 

Topics include motivating teachers, hiring and firing teachers, observations and evaluations, using social media, connecting with parents and families, scheduling, and leading for the future.

Review from Middleweb

2nd Review from Middleweb