The Elements of Education for School Leaders 50 Research-Based Principles Every School Leader Should Know

What skills are needed to ensure success as a school leader today? How do you ensure great teaching and learning is happening in your school? How do you build leadership capacity within your teams? To answer these questions, the authors combined up-to-date research with their own leadership experiences to assemble fifty essential principles that will help school leaders focus on what is most important. This book provides clear, concise, and valuable advice for school leaders and their leadership teams. Each principle is paired with a case study that places each one in a real-life context. The Elements of Education for School Leaders is an essential resource for anyone who wants to lead an effective school.

Acknowledgements Meet the Authors Introduction 1. Admissions 2. Assessment 3. Attendance 4. Change Management 5. College Counseling 6. Communication Excellence 7. Community Engagement 8. Co-Teaching 9. Crisis Leadership 10. Crisis Management 11. Curriculum Leadership 12. Data-Driven Decision-Making 13. Death and Bereavement 14. Developmental Coaching 15. Differentiation 16. Discipline 17. Double-Loop Learning 18. Ethical Misconduct 19. Faculty Evaluation 20. Goal Setting 21. Grading 22. Hiring 23. In-the-Moment Feedback 24. Inclusivity and Diversity 25. Innovation Leadership 26. Instructional Coaching 27. Instructional Rounds 28. Leadership Team 29. Meeting Facilitation 30. Mentorship 31. Mission and Vision 32. Networking 33. New Teacher Induction 34. One-on-One (O3) Meeting 35. Operational Excellence 36. Piloting Crazy Ideas 37. Principal Practices 38. Prioritization 39. Professional Development 40. Progress Over Perfection 41. Safety and Security 42. Scheduling 43. School Climate 44. Situational Decision-Making 45. Special Education 46. Strategic Retention 47. Succession Planning 48. Termination 49. Turnaround Leadership 50. Union Partnerships

Julia Chun is the director of global education at Avenues The World School. She also was the founding principal of the New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science, the first in a network of ten charter high schools in New York City. Tyler Tingley has led four American independent schools: Kingswood-Oxford School in Connecticut, the Blake School in Minnesota, and Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, as well as co-head of Avenues The World School in New York City. He is currently a strategic advisor at Avenues The World School. William Lidwell is the chief research and development officer of the Tiger Works research and development team at Avenues The World School. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Universal Principles of Design.