Instructional Leadership: Creating Practice Out of Theory - Softcover

DeWitt, Peter M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544381417 ISBN 13: 9781544381411

Publisher: Corwin, 2020

Synopsis

Bridge the gap between good intentions and real results

Instructional Leadership is one of the most researched and discussed leadership practices, but most school leaders don’t know where to begin or how to balance this role with all of their other responsibilities. Peter DeWitt’s Instructional Leadership provides practical tools for delivering lasting improvement through small, manageable changes over time.

 

This step-by-step, how-to guide presents the six driving forces of instructional leadership―implementation, focus on learning, student engagement, instructional strategies, efficacy, and evaluation of impact―within an easy-to-follow, multi-stage implementation model. It also includes:

 

·         Practical strategies grounded in research

·         "Entry point" sections highlighting the best places to start

·         Help working with PLCs, faculty meetings, teacher observations, and walkthroughs

·         Study questions

 

As a leader, you are the guide for your teachers, staff, and students. Let this book guide you to a vision of instructional leadership that really works.

About this title

About the Author

Peter DeWitt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective, and approaches everything with a learner′s mindset. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For over 12 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books. 

DeWitt′s professional learning relationships are a monthly hybrid approach that includes both coaching and the facilitating workshops on instructional leadership and collective efficacy. His work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K.

Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week with Michael Nelson and they host Corwin’s Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast. In 2020 DeWitt co-created Education Week′s A Seat At the Table where he moderates conversations with experts around the topics of race, gender, research, trauma and many other educational topics.

Peter is the author, co-author or contributor of numerous books and his articles have appeared in educational research journals at the state, national and international level. His books have been translated into numerous languages. 

From the Back Cover

This step-by-step how-to guide presents the six driving forces of instructional leadership within a multi-stage model for implementation, delivering lasting improvement through small, collaborative changes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544381417
• ISBN 13: 9781544381411
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176