New leaders face a steep learning curve. Whether you are new to an organization or new to a position, demonstrating your leadership value cannot wait. Casey Reason shows how to identify the critical impact points for new leaders, build a culture that drives employees to learn and innovate together, and create the momentum necessary to carry your organization forward.

100 Days to Leadership Impact

Business & Money

Casey Reason

Management & Leadership

Triple Nickel Press

Improve the quality of organizational learning in your school and address how current demands for rapid change and accountability contribute to levels of fear and stress. The author draws on educational, psychological, and neuroscientific research to show how leaders can change the prevailing emotional climate or tone of a school to promote deeper learning at all levels. Benefits: 
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<li>Understand why the rapid pace of change in education has created more fear and stress. </li> <li>Learn how school leaders can reduce the impact of negative emotions and promote empowering ones. </li> <li>Establish a more focused and effective work environment. </li> <li>Recognize why new knowledge about memory can enhance learning at all levels. </li> <li>Discover how to handle an overwhelming learning agenda. </li> <li>Make collaboration an integral part of school culture. </li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: Strategic Emotional Focus Chapter 2: Acknowledging and Reframing Fear Chapter 3: The Impact of Stress on Organizational Learning Chapter 4: Vision With Learning in Mind Chapter 5: Purpose-Driven Inquiry Chapter 6: Using Memory Systems to Stimulate Deep Organizational Learning Chapter 7: Handling Learning Overload Chapter 8: Creating a Defined Learning Culture Chapter 9: Inspired Collaboration Chapter 10: Conclusion

Leading a Learning Organization: The Science of Working with Others (Leading Edge)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Solution Tree

Improve the quality of organizational learning in your school. Leading a Learning Organization examines the role that emotion plays in school cultures and how current demands for rapid change and accountability contribute to levels of fear and stress. Dr. Reason draws on educational, psychological, and neuroscientific research to show how leaders can change the prevailing emotional climate or tone of a school to promote deeper learning at all levels. Principals and teacher leaders learn how to overcome obstacles to improve the emotional climate of schools, as well as explore the benefits of collaboration in building deep organizational learning. Practical strategies for enhancing organizational learning include change, analysis, and reframing; purpose-driven inquiry; the creation of a defined learning culture; conscious use of current scientific knowledge about the way memory works; and frequent, effective collaboration. Benefits Using the latest educational and neuroscientific research, this book explores: Why the rapid pace of change in education has created more fear and stress and why we become addicted to them  How school leaders can reduce the impact of negative emotions and promote empowering ones  How to establish a more focused and effective work environment  Why new knowledge about memory can enhance learning at all levels How to handle an overwhelming learning agenda  How to make collaboration an integral part of school culture

Leading a Learning Organization: The Science of Working with Others

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Now is the time to transform school culture! By combining the capacities of the PLC at WorkTM process and powerful technology tools, teams of educators can meaningfully modify teaching and learning. Realize the potential of virtual collaboration to support the PLC process, and discover research-based strategies that teams of educators can implement to meet contemporary challenges in collaboration. Using technology, create conditions that foster constant teacher learning. Educators will enhance their own and their virtual teams capabilities in the learner-focused culture that PLCs promote. 
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<li>Learn about the three strategic levels for organizing virtual teams, and consider the 10 dimensions for engineering a strategic e-connection.</li> <li>Gain insights on how to organize virtual and face-to-face teaming in order to bolster the success of your professional learning community.</li> <li>Examine an example case scenario in which a high school successfully uses technology to implement the PLC at WorkTM process.</li> <li>Study the elements of PLC leadership in collaborative teams and approaches that can help ensure effective teaching in all classrooms.</li> <li>Reference a comprehensive glossary of PLC and virtual collaboration terms and a list of websites to help support virtual teamwork.</li>
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Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Examining the Past to Understand the Present Chapter 2: Focusing on the Right Work Chapter 3: Organizing Virtual Connections Chapter 4: Strategizing for e-Collaboration Chapter 5: Enhancing Learning With e-Acceleration Chapter 6: Improving School-Based Teams With Virtual Teams Chapter 7: Virtual Teaming: A Case Scenario Chapter 8: Leading School-Based and Virtual Teams Chapter 9: Reaching the Tipping Point Appendix: Reproducibles References and Resources Index

Professional Learning Communities at Work and Virtual Collaboration: On the Tipping Point of Transformation (Foster a Learner-Focused Culture with Technology) (Essentials for Principals)

Richard DuFour

Leadership practices from the Industrial Revolution are no longer effective in 21st century classrooms. Explore the Leading for Excellence and Fulfillment model, and discover practical, research-based strategies that will be relevant to school leaders today and tomorrow. Integrate ready-to-use techniques into your current leadership practices to maximize learning and open up an unprecedented world of opportunities for both students and teachers. Benefits: 
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<li>Learn to recognize educational practices that are outdated and irrelevant to today's students. </li> <li>Understand how leadership practices influence students' academic achievement and future success. </li> <li>Explore critical conversations leaders must have with their staff. </li> <li>Discover how to inspire team collaboration and innovation. </li> <li>Read success stories from actual educators. </li>
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Contents: Introduction: Today Is Not Yesterday--Get Ready! Chapter 1: Establishing Vision Clarity Chapter 2: Generating Enhanced Reflective Learning Chapter 3: Asking Meaningful Questions Chapter 4: Inspiring Dynamic Innovation Chapter 5: Developing and Enhancing Authentic Teacher Leadership Chapter 6: Igniting Next-Level Collaboration Chapter 7: Using Conflict and Repurposed Energy to Improve and Inspire Chapter 8: Encouraging Will, Determination, and Resilience Chapter 9: Developing Individual and Systemic Belief in Next-Level Performance Chapter 10: Cultivating Organic Leadership Epilogue: Coaching in Your Corner

Stop Leading Like It's Yesterday!: Key Concepts for Shaping Today's School Culture

As technology continues to shift the educational landscape, most K-12 teachers' instructional strategies remain mostly unchanged. Discover how to enhance student learning in online and blended classrooms. This user-friendly resource offers direct guidance on the steps K-12 educators must take to facilitate online learning and maximize student growth using readily available digital tools. Each chapter includes suggestions, tips, and examples tied to pedagogical practices associated with learning online, so you can confidently and fully engage in the best practices with your students. Benefits: <ul>
<li>Use technology tools like online classroom platforms and apps to foster digitally enhanced learning.</li> <li>Understand the benefits of learning online and its advantages over traditional real-world classrooms.</li> <li>Learn how to effectively facilitate digital learning experiences and organize the online learning space in a way that encourages comfort, motivation, and engagement.</li> <li>Study the challenges and opportunities teaching online offers.</li> <li>Gain strategies and examples to help initiate and sustain digital learning while engaging students.</li> </ul>
Contents: Chapter 1: Understanding the Modality and the Moment Chapter 2: Planning Curriculum, Assessment, and Preinstruction Chapter 3: Preparing the Learning Experience Chapter 4: Initiating the Learning Experience Chapter 5: Maintaining the Momentum in the Learning Experience Chapter 6: Teaching Thoughtful Online Collaboration Chapter 7: Managing and Overcoming Toxic Conversations Chapter 8: Concluding the Learning Experience Concluding Thoughts

Creating the Anywhere, Anytime Classroom: A Blueprint for Learning Online in Grades K-12 (Enrich the online and blended classroom experience)

Lisa Reason

Crystal Guiler

Inside PLCs takes readers on a journey to Sheridan County School District 2, a district in Wyoming that has built a professional learning community (PLC) to great success. Using Sheridan as a real-world example, authors Casey Reason and Craig Dougherty help educators develop a deep, nuanced understanding of the PLC at Work® model and how PLCs work, preparing them in successfully implementing the PLC process in their own schools. Follow one school's journey to implement the professional learning community model: 
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<li>Understand the foundational concepts and qualities of professional learning communities, such as the three big ideas and four guiding questions.</li> <li>Deepen your comprehension of how PLC works by learning about Sheridan County School District 2's journey.</li> <li>Utilize this book's appendices to access other real-world examples of effective PLC schools.</li> <li>Learn how the best PLC schools fully implement the PLC process for the greatest benefit possible.</li> <li>Supplement your learning of the PLC model with free online reproducibles.</li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The Big Ideas in PLCs Chapter 2: Teams in PLCs Chapter 3: Inquiry in PLCs Chapter 4: Collaborative Culture in PLCs Chapter 5: Intervention, Extension, and Innovation in PLCs Afterword Appendix References and Resources

Inside PLCs at Work®: Your Guided Tour Through One District's Successes, Challenges, and Celebrations (How Effective Professional Learning Communities Work)

Craig Dougherty

Solution Tree Press

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