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Improve Principal Evaluation And Create Highly Effective Leaders! Even with great teachers, student achievement hinges on an effective principal. Behind every high-quality principal is an airtight system of leadership evaluation that consistently rewards excellence and remedies deficits. While teacher evaluation methods have improved, instructional leadership evaluation has often stood still—and student learning and achievement have paid the price. This book identifies the major problems in this process and articulates clear solutions. The result is a blueprint for ensuring the best person for the job is occupying the principal’s chair. Content includes: • Extensive data, presented in a user-friendly manner • Clear connections to the new ISLLC Standards for School Leaders • A suite of interactive tools including sample self-assessments, mid-year and final evaluation forms, and professional growth plans “This book not only highlights the key messages about the role of the leader, but it is does so in a way that is engaging, practical, and reflects the Smiths’ long history of being school leaders, teaching school leaders, and seeing the effects of their teaching. I have seen the Smiths in action, separately and together, and they know how to lead and how to teach, they have a strength of purpose they do not waver from, and these attributes come through in this book.” —John Hattie, Director Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne “After reading this book, you’ll truly understand what it takes to grow as a lead learner. We can always get better. This book provides quality insight on strategies that will make good leaders great.” —Brad Currie, School Leader, Corwin Author and Co-Founder of #Satchat
Feedback for Learning
Feedback for Learning
This chapter addresses the importance of feedback to learning for school leaders, the manner in which feedback is given and secured between the participants within the evaluation cycle to prompt active information processing and application, and the impact of feedback on the participants that leads to enhanced leadership and instructional practices. Why devote an entire chapter to the topic of feedback? Simply put, “feedback significantly improves learning” (Wiliam, 2012, p. 32), regardless of whether it is the learning of adolescents or the learning of adults. Feedback is critical to all learning.
Think back for a moment to the childhood game in which you hide an object and provide clues such as “You’re cold! Now you’re getting warmer! Warmer! You’re HOT!” ...
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