This book offers clear guidance for facilitating curriculum improvement at the building level. It includes real-life scenarios that principals encounter, accompanied by strategies to help schools sustain focus on student learning and continuous organizational development. It is aimed at current and prospective administrators looking to update or refresh their understandings of curriculum leadership fundamentals. Its actionable ideas and useful examples can be applied across multiple school subjects and grade levels. Its practical overviews center on seven questions essential to planning, coordinating, overseeing, and supporting collective improvement efforts: .Which big ideas set the stage for curriculum leadership? .How can leaders help focus the curriculum? .When is curriculum mapping useful? .What are other curriculum support strategies? .Where do more integrated models come in? .What about alternatives to standardized curricula? .Why do philosophy & political leadership matter? Though principal is used as shorthand, the concepts and tools highlighted are equally relevant to the work of teacher leaders, instructional coordinators, central office personnel, and others interested in PreK-12 curriculum improvement.

'Tallerico empowers principals with her view that leaders matter and demonstrates how their influence is expanded when they focus their attention on high-quality professional learning that continuously improves teaching, student learning, and relationships within the school community' - Dennis Sparks, Executive Director, National Staff Development Council 'Although there are many resources for building administrators to learn models and implementation issues for quality professional development, few I've seen have compiled as handy a resource as this one' - Karla Reiss, Founder, Consultant, and Coach, The Change Place; Professional Coaching and Consulting for Work and Life Transformation Nurture teacher development through focused and realistic approaches! Although school administrators consider supporting and sustaining teachers' professional development a priority, more pressing day-to-day imperatives often eclipse this goal. Supporting and Sustaining Teachers' Professional Development specifically targets busy headteachers who want practical suggestions for how to balance these everyday administrative tasks with encouraging teacher's professional growth. Focusing on seven questions selected for their relevance to school administrators, this essential reference summarizes the practical implications of the latest research and theory on the topic of teacher development. New, experienced, and aspiring school leaders will learn how to: - Emphasize research and practice - Provide rationales that explain and justify the encouragement of professional development - Link teachers' professional development to student learning - Interpret national standards for professional development and practically apply them - Improve student achievement, retain highly qualified teachers, and ground school practices in sound research by learning how to encourage your teachers while remaining committed to your leadership responsibilities.

Pursuing and obtaining a superintendency is more complicated than any other educational employment process. Marilyn Tallerico demonstrates how to navigate this challenging terrain by providing an insider?s view of how superintendents are found, selected, and viewed.

Research-based and very practical, Accessing the Superintendency shows how to overcome the invisible selection criteria, the unwritten rules, and the biases that often shut out qualified women and racially and ethnically diverse candidates.

Introduction Part I: Demystifying Selection Practices 1.How Do School Boards Prepare for the Search? 2. What is Recruiting & Interviewing Candidates All About? 3. How Are Hiring & Powerbrokering Related? Part II: Preventing & Promoting Advancement 4. What Do Sex and Color Have to Do With It? 5. Where Are the Biases? 6. How Do Consultants & School Boards Help? 7. How Can You Get the Most Out of the Network? Conclusions: So What? Appendix: Research Methods References Index

This book offers clear guidance for facilitating curriculum improvement at the building level. It includes real-life scenarios that principals encounter, accompanied by strategies to help schools sustain focus on student learning and continuous organizational development. It is aimed at current and prospective administrators looking to update or refresh their understandings of curriculum leadership fundamentals. Its actionable ideas and useful examples can be applied across multiple school subjects and grade levels. Its practical overviews center on seven questions essential to planning, coordinating, overseeing, and supporting collective improvement efforts: *Which big ideas set the stage for curriculum leadership? *How can leaders help focus the curriculum? *When is curriculum mapping useful? *What are other curriculum support strategies? *Where do more integrated models come in? *What about alternatives to standardized curricula? and *Why do philosophy & political leadership matter? Though principal is used as shorthand, the concepts and tools highlighted are equally relevant to the work of teacher leaders, instructional coordinators, central office personnel, and others interested in PreK-12 curriculum improvement.

'Tallerico empowers principals with her view that leaders matter and demonstrates how their influence is expanded when they focus their attention on high-quality professional learning that continuously improves teaching, student learning, and relationships within the school community' - Dennis Sparks, Executive Director, National Staff Development Council 'Although there are many resources for building administrators to learn models and implementation issues for quality professional development, few I've seen have compiled as handy a resource as this one' - Karla Reiss, Founder, Consultant, and Coach, The Change Place; Professional Coaching and Consulting for Work and Life Transformation Nurture teacher development through focused and realistic approaches! Although school administrators consider supporting and sustaining teachers' professional development a priority, more pressing day-to-day imperatives often eclipse this goal. Supporting and Sustaining Teachers' Professional Development specifically targets busy headteachers who want practical suggestions for how to balance these everyday administrative tasks with encouraging teacher's professional growth. Focusing on seven questions selected for their relevance to school administrators, this essential reference summarizes the practical implications of the latest research and theory on the topic of teacher development. New, experienced, and aspiring school leaders will learn how to: - Emphasize research and practice - Provide rationales that explain and justify the encouragement of professional development - Link teachers' professional development to student learning - Interpret national standards for professional development and practically apply them - Improve student achievement, retain highly qualified teachers, and ground school practices in sound research by learning how to encourage your teachers while remaining committed to your leadership responsibilities.

Pursuing and obtaining a superintendency is more complicated than any other educational employment process. Marilyn Tallerico demonstrates how to navigate this challenging terrain by providing an insider?s view of how superintendents are found, selected, and viewed.

Research-based and very practical, Accessing the Superintendency shows how to overcome the invisible selection criteria, the unwritten rules, and the biases that often shut out qualified women and racially and ethnically diverse candidates.

Introduction Part I: Demystifying Selection Practices 1.How Do School Boards Prepare for the Search? 2. What is Recruiting & Interviewing Candidates All About? 3. How Are Hiring & Powerbrokering Related? Part II: Preventing & Promoting Advancement 4. What Do Sex and Color Have to Do With It? 5. Where Are the Biases? 6. How Do Consultants & School Boards Help? 7. How Can You Get the Most Out of the Network? Conclusions: So What? Appendix: Research Methods References Index

By understanding the realities, complex relationships and conditions of practice that influence urban schooling, educators can take advantage of the opportunities that urban settings present. The authors identify nine key problems of practice affecting city schools in the United States and provide examples of the possible interventions needed to improve the education of urban youth. The theory, research and analytic tools relevant to each issue are presented clearly and in a non-technical way.