In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator's role is more important than ever. How do you maintain the right balance of "loose-tight" leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and more in compelling chapters that deliver the strategies and heartfelt inspiration essential to being the best administrator you can be.

• Mike Mattos makes the case for total commitment to the vision of learning for all; successful PLCs align all practices with all six core principles of a PLC.
• Cassandra Erkens explains how to grow and empower the teacher leaders critical to true distributed leadership.
• Austin Buffum offers insights on building, maintaining, and repairing trust—the foundation of collaborative teams and effective leadership.
• Kenneth Williams asks thought-provoking reflective questions and gives practical strategies for moving staff from compliance to commitment.
• Chuck Hinman provides four engaging activities for reigniting educators’ passion for teaching and learning in the age of accountability.
• Lillie Jessie shares the “principal’s principles” for leading a PLC.
• Anthony Muhammad outlines a process of job-embedded learning to support quality teaching.
• Terri Martin explains how to turn professional development from an occasional chore into a natural way of doing business.
• Peter Noonan demonstrates how to reinvent the school schedule to create or find more time for learning.
• Geri Parscale outlines the process for creating a system of tiered interventions to ensure that all students learn.
• Susan Huff shows that data can be converted into powerful information.
• Eric Twadell describes how to turn contract negotiations into a win-win collaboration focused on student learning.
• Jay Westover shows how the central office can advocate, support, and sustain PLC development.

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