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Leading the Evolution

Move beyond the existing model of schooling toward a personalized competency-based approach to drive transformational change. Connect educational leadership, student engagement, and teacher optimism to support academic achievement.

Benefits

  • Understand the current state of education and why changing it is imperative. Identify the leadership behaviors that lead to the organizational and cultural shift necessary to transform the current education paradigm.
  • Consider in detail all three points of the evolutionary triad: transformational instructional leadership, teacher optimism, and student engagement.
  • Examine the central focus of the evolutionary triad: personalized, competency-based education.
  • Explore leadership practices that support successfully implementing the evolutionary triad and learning competencies in schools.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Foundations for Evolution
Chapter 2: The Transformational Instructional Leader
Chapter 3: The Optimistic Teacher
Chapter 4: The Engaged Student
Chapter 5: The High-Impact School

Study Guide

Suggested Resources

BOOKS

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  • Marzano, R. J. (2018). Making Classroom Assessments Reliable and Valid. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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