James H. Stronge is president and CEO of Stronge and Associates Educational Consulting, LLC, an educational consulting company that focuses on teacher and
leader effectiveness with projects internationally and in many U.S. states.
James H. Stronge is CEO of Stronge and Associates Educational Consulting, an educational consulting company that focuses on teacher and
leader effectiveness with projects internationally and in many U.S. states.
Not exact matches
Fortune's World's Greatest
Leaders list is out this morning, and at the top of it are a bunch of kids — the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and elsewhere, who have challenged the powerful NRA
with surprising
effectiveness.
Reading novels can improve empathy and understanding of social cues, allowing a
leader to better work
with and understand others — traits that author Anne Kreamer persuasively linked to increased organizational
effectiveness, and to pay raises and promotions for the
leaders who possessed these qualities.
Digital marketers can agree, though, on the keys to content marketing
effectiveness with audience relevance the top choice among 90 % of B2B marketing
leaders in a Regalix study.
Furthermore, though religious
leaders themselves generally pray —
with varying degrees of
effectiveness — relatively few, it may be judged, have consciously analyzed the process of prayer enough to attempt to instruct others.
«Clergy psychologists and others who have to deal
with clergy health problems and burnout» now strongly caution pastors that to enhance their overall physical, mental and spiritual well - being and maintain
effectiveness as pastoral
leaders, they must learn to maintain boundaries, particularly between church work and private time.»
But if our friends all come from the same background
with the same views and beliefs, it limits our exposure to different views and ideas, minimizing our
effectiveness as
leaders.
LifeWay Research is a leading evangelical research firm in Nashville, Tenn. that conducts frequent research into today's church and culture to equip church
leaders with insight and advice that will lead to greater levels of church
effectiveness.
Our partnership
with the world
leader in aromatherapy, acknowledged for the
effectiveness of its 100 % natural products, fits perfectly
with our ethos.»
I offer a variety of tools for helping you be the best you can be in this field, to improve the
effectiveness of your teaching, your relationships
with the families you serve, the success of your child care business, the success of your association, and help you build the skills that will make you a
leader!
If they combine the smart use of those tools
with equally smart investments in teacher and
leader effectiveness, the goal of having every student succeed will start to seem less like the horizon line we can't reach and more like the finish line we can.
Ms Rodgers, who most recently served as Deputy Secretary, Early Learning and Student Achievement at the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has experience in improving system
effectiveness with school
leaders across education and the wider social sector.
Each year the program provides Learning and Development
leaders with a chance to review their strategy against their peers and receive personalized feedback on their
effectiveness.
We work
with education
leaders to measure the
effectiveness of teachers, principals, and schools; to examine the equitable distribution of effective teaching; and to understand the factors that help educators have a greater impact on the students they serve.
Prior to this role, Shaull also served as the Executive Director for Teacher and
Leader Effectiveness where, along
with a talented team of educators and national experts, she led the initial implementation of a comprehensive teacher evaluation system to accurately track teacher performance.
Teaching
effectiveness measures have great potential to provide teachers
with feedback as they work to hone their craft and to help school system
leaders understand where support for better teaching and learning is needed, whether that support is effective, and, ultimately, how to design a system of supports to get better results.
«I'm excited that we have begun our work
with these national
leaders and that our local school districts will be able to use their expertise to help build the types of comprehensive evaluation systems that will provide meaningful feedback to teachers while gauging their
effectiveness in a fair manner.»
«As school
leaders,» write the study's authors, «administrators are charged
with creating an organizational climate that promotes individual commitment and organizational
effectiveness (e.g., providing adequate resources and professional development, giving meaningful feedback and encouragement, and including teachers in decision making).»
IF the IDOE collaborates
with key stakeholders, including LEAs, institutions of higher education, and educator associations, to refine existing human capital management systems that leverage evaluation and support systems to recruit, prepare, develop, support, advance, reward, and retain great teachers and
leaders, THEN increased educator capacity and
effectiveness will ensure equitable access to excellent educators and lead to improved student outcomes.50
Engaging Schools works
with school and program
leaders and educators to support students in developing and strengthening social - emotional learning competencies and qualities of character that increase interpersonal
effectiveness, reduce aggressive and antisocial behavior and intolerance, and enhance academic achievement.
This webinar provided participants an opportunity to identify the opportunities of SRCLP program to increase language and literacy skills of young children and improve practice of educators; share evidence - based research to improve reading comprehension of children preschool to third grade; and discuss considerations for state
leaders in designing policy and professional learning to increase
effectiveness of early language and literacy instruction, particularly for dual language learners, and children
with special needs.
In this blog post for the Chalkboard Project, Sharon Williams shares some of her own experience as a principal, the foundations of CEL's work
with central office
leaders and superintendents and how it will help establish a culture in which every school
leader is supported to improve teaching
effectiveness for every student in every classroom across Oregon.
Both of his children are products of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and he has coordinated
with parent
leaders statewide in addressing the State Board of Education on the need to strengthen oversight and
effectiveness of School Site Councils and overhaul school improvement and shared decision - making processes.
What the group came up
with in that all - important category of teacher and
leader effectiveness is a plan to give those districts that have endorsed the state's Race to the Top application 13 months to create new teacher and principal evaluations that will, at a minimum, link 30 percent of job performance to growth in student achievement.
Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district
leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher
effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers»
effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores,
with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.
Dr. Todd Whitaker Todd Whitaker, best - selling author of What Great Teachers Do Differently, will deliver a dynamic keynote presentation on the habits of great
leaders, what makes them effective, and how to implement strategies that improve principal and educator
effectiveness — drawing from his experience
with staff motivation, teacher leadership, technology, instructional improvement, and more.
This book will help school
leaders find the equanimity needed to lead
with calm, clarity, and
effectiveness in the midst of the storm.
Todd Whitaker, best - selling author of What Great Teachers Do Differently, will deliver a dynamic keynote presentation on the habits of great
leaders, what makes them effective, and how to implement strategies that improve principal and educator
effectiveness — drawing from his experience
with staff motivation, teacher leadership, technology, instructional improvement, and more.
The distinctive characteristic of schools
with superior evaluation systems is that their
leaders can identify practices that they have stopped doing because their evaluations found insufficient evidence of
effectiveness.
While coaching provides teachers and school
leaders with a «thought partner» as they apply their new learning and changes to their practice, it is Cognitive Coaching that systematically changes educator practice and ultimately improves educator
effectiveness.
But the Obama administration, which was elected
with teacher - union support, has pushed for objective measures of teacher
effectiveness, and some union
leaders have gradually shifted positions.
This webinar includes tips for school
leaders, decision makers, teachers, and anyone
with an interest in increasing educator
effectiveness.
They also, along
with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school
leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not
effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.
Instead of adding new responsibilities to an assistant superintendent's workload, central office
leaders need to create roles that emphasize working side - by - side
with principals to improve their
effectiveness.
In Ascension Parish, Louisiana, a suburban district just south of Baton Rouge, district and school
leaders use data on teacher
effectiveness with students to analyze strategies, both within and across schools, to ensure that high - need students are taught by effective educators.
While coaching provides teachers and school
leaders with a «thought partner» as they apply new learning and changes to their practice, it is Cognitive Coaching that systematically changes educator practice and ultimately improves educator
effectiveness.
In a speech in September, Tony Evers, the state superintendent of public instruction, challenged school and union
leaders across the state to come up
with effective systems for improving teacher
effectiveness.
Five states have been added to the list of 10 already taking part in a $ 25 million UF College of Education project aimed at improving the
effectiveness of teachers and public school
leaders who serve students
with disabilities.
REL Central focuses on building alliances
with state - and district - level education
leaders in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming to explore key policies surrounding educator
effectiveness, postsecondary education and workforce readiness, and closing the achievement gap.
In 2011, SEDL and the other partners (ICF, AIR, Education Northwest, and McREL) assisted
with Communities of Practice addressing stakeholder engagement, school turnaround, and teacher and
leader effectiveness.
We also partnered
with the district to help share this work
with other districts through a New York State Strengthening Teacher and
Leader Effectiveness grant.
These roles may include, for example: team
leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads
with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other teachers, assesses teachers»
effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration teacher, who models excellent teaching for teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners
with schools and districts to promote teacher leadership — teacher
leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other teachers, lead teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new teachers.12
Graduates are more racially diverse than other new teachers in Boston Public Schools; they are also more likely to teach in STEM fields and to remain teaching in the district through their fifth year, which is when data show that teachers tend to be at or close to their peak
effectiveness.27 Like the Boston Teacher Residency, the Relay Teaching Residency, founded in 2007 and supported by Relay Graduate School of Education, is a two - year program that provides residents
with a structured, gradual on - ramp into the profession, along
with a master's degree.28 Ninety - two percent of employing school
leaders affirmed their satisfaction
with the performance of their teachers who were enrolled at Relay.29
This large, suburban district partnered
with McREL to improve the
effectiveness of its current and aspiring
leaders, including instructional supervisors, principals, assistant principals, and teacher
leaders.
CORE experts work closely
with prek - 12 school and district
leaders to create and communicate district literacy plans, select and use effective assessments, establish pacing calendars and MTSS plans for interventions, and monitor teaching
effectiveness school - and district - wide.
The 5Essentials Survey assesses five key
effectiveness factors that are correlated
with school success: Effective
Leaders, Collaborative Teachers, Supportive Environment, Involved Families, and Ambitious Instruction.
Principals, as instructional
leaders, are in the throes of facilitating a paradigm shift away from thinking about teacher
effectiveness through the lens of static teacher ratings toward a holistic view of the learning process,
with a keen focus on the constant, iterative interaction that exists between students and teachers.
In turn, ALET members provide these industry
leaders with vital feedback on how their products and services can be further developed to improve their usefulness and
effectiveness.
I work
with school
leaders nearly every day who struggle to find the right balance in their educator
effectiveness systems between what I call the «growth vs. gotcha» factor.