• We strive to provide our community with the most highly trained, and informed staff in the country. Below is a list of book reading suggestions for staff that have been carefully compiled and read by our school board.

Suggested Reading for Staff

  • District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right

    District Leadership That Works

    by Robert J. Marzano,Timothy Waters Year Published: 2009
    District Leadership That Works begins by expunging the myth that district leadership and high-level school administrators are useless and deter educational progress. They explain how district leaders can tactfully and successfully deal with any resistance to the changes and the new role that district leadership must play. In the final analysis, the authors argue, the ultimate goal of stronger district leadership and non-negotiable goal-setting is student achievement, since that is why educational systems exist in the first place. - amazon listing
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  • Instructional Rounds in Education

    by Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, Sarah E. Fiarman, Lee Teitel Year Published: 2009
    Walk into any school in America and you will see adults who care deeply about their students and are doing the best they can every day to help students learn. But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done before educate all students to high levels yet we don t know how to do that in every classroom for every child.

    This book is intended to help education leaders and practitioners develop a shared understanding of what high-quality instruction looks like and what schools and districts need to do to support it. Inspired by the medical rounds model used by physicians, the authors have pioneered a new form of professional learning known as instructional rounds networks. Through this process, educators develop a shared practice of observing, discussing, and analyzing learning and teaching. -  Amazon Listing
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  • Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and S

    Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals ...

    by John Hoyle Year Published: 2010
    This book includes a step-by-step guide to selecting the best students, creating a pre- and post-assessment of student learning, a well-designed procedure to pretest and assure that all masters degree students actually acquire a strong knowledge base and score well on state licensure exams. - Amazon Listing
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