A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0 How to Build Exceptional Schools Across Your District

Build better schools by training better leaders

A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership answers the question that district leaders have been asking across the country:  if Leverage Leadership is a roadmap for principals on how to lead great schools, what can principal managers and districts do to support them on that path?  A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership offers a step-by-step guide to coaching principals to the highest levels of achievement, and it is rooted in studying the most successful principal managers and districts across the country.  It can be used by principal managers/supervisors, superintendents, district and state leadership, and principal training organizations to accelerate the growth of principals in your community.  Used in conjunction with Leverage Leadership 2.0, this book identifies the key actions principal managers should take to create exceptional school leaders, integrating the seven levers of leadership into district culture from the principal manager on up. With a particular emphasis on the two “super-levers” of data-driven instruction and student culture, this book is packed with advice, professional development materials, and real-world videos of principal managers in action, offering principal managers a valuable resource for bringing about change.

A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership introduces a new unifying approach that is also highlighted in Leverage Leadership 2.0: See It, Name It, Do It. It gives you the tools to See it (see models of effective practice and identify gaps), Name it (name concrete actions for improvement) and Do it (provide means to practice these action steps until a principal masters them)

With A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership in hand, principal managers, superintendents and principal training organizations can facilitate district-wide and state-wide transformations and hasten the benefit to the students and community as a whole.

PAUL BAMBRICK-SANTOYO is the chief schools officer for Uncommon Schools and the founder and dean of the Leverage Leadership Institute, creating proof points of excellence in urban schools nationwide. Author of Driven by Data; Leverage Leadership 2.0; Great Habits, Great Readers; and Get Better Faster, Bambrick-Santoyo has trained more than twenty thousand school leaders worldwide in instructional leadership, including multiple schools that have gone on to become the highest-gaining or highest-achieving schools in their districts, states, and/or countries.

DVD Video Content ix

DVD Additional Materials xiii

Acknowledgments xix

About the Author xxi

Introduction 1

A Paradigm Shift: From Administration to Instruction 2

A “Practical Guide”: What You’ll Find in the Book 6

Who Should Use This Book—and How 11

The Path Ahead 13

PART 1 What to Coach 15

1 A Primer on Leverage Leadership 17

The Seven Levers of Leadership 20

See It. Name It. Do It. 22

How to Lift the Levers 23

Conclusion 26

2 Identifying the Right Action Steps 27

Criteria for Principal Action Steps 30

How to Use the Leverage Leadership Sequence of Action Steps for Principals 37

Case Studies—Try It Yourself 37

Conclusion 44

Pulling the Lever 66

PART 2 How to Coach 69

3 Coaching Data-Driven Instruction 71

Set the Table: A Primer on the Conditions for Success District Wide 75

Monitor the Learning 89

Coach by Example: Lead Data Meetings 104

Coach by Doing: Monitor Student Work 110

Conclusion 119

Pulling the Lever 124

4 Coaching Student Culture 127

Train the Rollout 130

Monitor Culture 133

Coach by Walking 136

Coach by Meeting 138

The 30-Day Playbook 146

Conclusion 149

Pulling the Lever 155

5 Coaching Teams of Principals 157

Establish the Norm—One School 159

Observe Each Other—Collaborative School Walkthroughs 161

Practice Together—Team Coaching 165

Conclusion 170

Pulling the Lever 170

PART 3 Systems 173

6 Finding the Time 175

Build Your Weekly Schedule 177

Defend Your Time 187

Manage Your Tasks 187

Conclusion 191

Pulling the Lever 192

7 A Superintendent’s Guide to Creating the Conditions for Success 195

Maximize Time in Schools 196

Build Data-Driven Instruction Systems 199

Provide Flexible Support for Turnarounds 200

Conclusion 201

Conclusion 203

PART 4 Professional Development 205

8 Workshops: Overview and Highlights 207

Workshop Overview: Data-Driven Instruction for Principal Managers 208

Workshop Overview: Leading Student Culture for Principal Managers 218

Notes 225

Index 229

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