Book of the Month for December 2024
Author Gavin Grift proposes that successful leadership is, at its core, a deeply personal endeavor built on self-awareness. This book equips teacher leaders with the knowledge and insight they need to meet the leader within themselves. With newfound leadership thinking, educators can remove mental barriers, become empowered to tackle the daily challenges ahead, and begin the journey to leading schools impactfully.
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May 2025
Collective Impact: Overcoming the Twelve Enemies of Teacher Efficacy (Discover the Enemies of Efficacy)
by - by Jenni Donohoo, Glenn Forbes
In Collective Impact, authors Jenni Donohoo and Glenn Forbes identify barriers that impede collective teacher efficacy and detail effective strategies school leaders can use to overcome these obstacles.
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January 2025
The Pruning Principle: Mastering the Art of Strategic Subtraction Within Education
by - Simon Breakspear, Michael Rosenbrock
The Pruning Principle offers a groundbreaking approach to educational leadership, drawing inspiration from horticulture to address the chronic issues of overwork and inefficiency in schools. The authors, Dr Simon Breakspear and Michael Rosenbrock, propose a radical shift from the culture of "doing more" to one of strategic subtraction, arguing that by carefully pruning away non-essential...
December 2024
Emerge: The Five Most Common Challenges Faced by Middle Leaders and How to Overcome Them (Unleash the power of self-awareness in leadership.)
by - Gavin Grift
Author Gavin Grift proposes that successful leadership is, at its core, a deeply personal endeavor built on self-awareness.
November 2024
Making Room for Impact: A De-implementation Guide for Educators
by - by Arran Hamilton, John Hattie, Dylan Wiliam
With teacher and leader workloads and burnout at an all-time high, it’s time for de-implementation: de-prioritizing and deleting the less effective, higher-cost initiatives we implement in schools. De-implementation allows us to focus on practices that have more supporting evidence and a higher probability of positive impact on students, and at the same time gain much-needed...