Get your data team working effectively! 

Data is a valuable resource for improving education. Unfortunately, many school teams struggle to make sense of new and often overwhelming data. What Does Your Data Team Sound Like? provides an approach that supports teams as they review a range of data sets, and improves their conversation about effectively applying data to instructional decision-making. Written to help teams navigate the world of data analysis for on-going school improvement, this book offers an easy to follow framework that dives deep into data-driven instruction. Readers will find: 

• Easy, step-by-step analysis techniques  
• Case studies that demonstrate different approaches 
• Checklists and flowcharts to help visual the process 

Developed by expert authors who have worked with data teams across a wide variety of settings and scenarios, this book will help educators take action to create better learning environments for students. 

Design high-impact professional learning programs with results-based evaluations

With increasing accountability pressure for evidence-based strategies and ever-tightening budgets, you want to make sure that the time, effort, and resources you are investing in your professional learning programs is truly making an impact on educator effectiveness and student achievement. 

In this third edition of Assessing Impact, Joellen Killion guides administrators, professional learning leaders, school improvement teams, and evaluators step by step through the rigors of producing an effective, in-depth, results-based analysis of your professional learning programs. A recognized expert in professional learning, Killion emphasizes the critical role of evaluation in bolstering effectiveness and retaining stakeholder support for ongoing educator development. The methods outlined here help you:

• Adhere to changes in federal and state policy relating to professional learning and educator development
• Facilitate the use of extensive datasets crucial for measuring feasibility, equity, sustainability, and impact of professional learning
• Produce more powerful, data-driven professional learning programs that benefit both students and educators
• Evaluate the effectiveness and impact of professional learning to make data-informed decisions and increase quality and results
  
  

Assessing Impact is a vital resource for staff developers and educational leaders seeking to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of professional learning, while retaining the support of parents and the public alike. 

Praise for the Second Edition:

"Anyone who reads this book has to feel obligated to 'set their world on fire.' The text not only forces the reader to see how we are failing our children and their teachers, it provides the means for each of us to do better."
—Michael J. Ford, Superintendent
Phelps-Clifton Springs CSD, Clifton Springs, NY
 

 

The future of education centers empowered students in a global learning ecosystem.

Despite decades of reform, the traditional borders of education—graduation, curriculum, classrooms, schools—have failed to deliver on the goals of excellence and equity.

Despite massive societal changes, education remains controlled by an old mindset. It is time to change that limiting mindset and, more importantly, the ineffective practices in education. To truly serve all learners, future classrooms must remove the boundaries of learning and become student-centered, culturally responsive, and personalized—supportive and equitable environments where each student can direct their own learning and seek multiple pathways to skills and knowledge in a global learning ecosystem. This compelling call for transformative change offers all involved in education

• Evidence-based arguments that reveal the need to break the traditional borders that limit learning
• Strategies to personalize learning and remove the confinement of traditional pathways
• Examples from around the world to create equitable and student-centric learning environments
• Resources for creating a school learning environment that expands opportunities for personalized learning into the global learning ecosystem

Develop Your Most Powerful Tool For Influencing And Leading Change

Good principals know that empowering student voices is essential. But what about their own voice? If principal voice is not articulate, trustworthy and strong, how can the school achieve progress?

Student voice authority Russell Quaglia brings his nuanced understanding of communication, listening, and leadership to this definitive guide to principal voice. Content includes:

• How to apply the Listen-Learn-Lead model for student voice to principal voice. 
• Contrasting examples of good and bad ways to address students, teachers, parents and community. 
• Prompts for reflection that enable principals to apply the book’s teachings to their unique situation.  

This series has been developed to bring the best thinking from the leading education change experts in the field. Experts have been asked to reflect upon their collected experience and wisdom to highlight the very best advice they would offer today’ school leaders. This vibrant addition to Corwin’s Impact Leadership series belongs on every forward-thinking educator’s bookshelf alongside other series titles written by well-known authors:

• Michael Fullan
• Avis Glaze
• Andy Hargreaves
• Viviane Robinson
• Pasi Sahlberg
• Yong Zhao

“Listen, learn and lead sounds simple, but Quaglia’s wisdom is rich and his authentic voice guides principals through the model. This book should be used as the Voice Model for any principal who wishes to influence their states’ plans for Every Student Succeeds Act. A must read for every principal!”
—Joan E. Auchter, Director of Professional Development
National Association of Secondary School Principals


?"With a perfect blend of wit and wisdom, Russ Quaglia expands upon his compelling research related to student and teacher voice to reveal the value and importance of principal voice in leading and supporting growth schoolwide.  Alternately encouraging and challenging, Quaglia beseeches principals to listen carefully to student and teacher voice in finding and leveraging their own voice to influence policy and practice.  Principal Voice is a must read for principals and anyone who is involved with educating our nation’s children–it provides a blueprint for utilizing 'voice' in leading through collaboration to achieve better results for students."
—Gail Connelly, Executive Director
National Association of Elementary School Principals


?"Dr. Quaglia calls upon principals to prioritize listening as the core strategy toward building authentic engagement among students, staff, parents, and community members, thereby transforming schools into vibrant communities where all voices are heard, valued and empowered. Dr. Quaglia's personal and inspiring words are an uplifting and timely message for all principals: let every voice—including the principal's—be in the lead!"
—Sandra A. Trach, Principal
Estabrook Elementary School, Lexington, MA


?"Russell Quaglia has hit it out of the ballpark with his excellent and inspiring read, Principal Voice: Listen, Learn, Lead. This short but essential book is a must-read for every practicing and/or prospective school leader. The author provides real and relevant advice -- reminding readers to listen to improve the message and thus lead by creating a caring, collaborative, and enthusiastic learning community. Read this book so your voice can be effectively and readily heard as a means of becoming an instrument of critical change!"
—Dr. Richard Sorenson, Professor Emeritus
The University of Texas at El Paso
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Deliver real change and real results for your school

This book focuses directly on what promotes delivery. It provides the practical tools and implementation guide for re-invigorating your school. Set against a solid blend of international research and international best practice, the narrative is carried by voices from schools that are currently delivering across six countries. They tell it how it is, in lived reality. Every process in the book has been tested and refined under the heat of practice, addressing the current realities in education. The book provides a carefully selected repertoire of skills, models, and processes that:

• deliver results for children, teachers, school leaders, families and their communities
• build trust through ensuring every voice is heard and respected
• develop a strong culture of leadership and alignment, while recognizing and embracing the complexities of school change
• address the frustrations currently felt by teachers in a positive, productive way

Schools That Deliver fills the gap between intention and delivery. The book respects your voice, and your ability to create your own ways of delivering while remaining loyal to the unique personality of your school. When a school community delivers together what really matters for their children, they feel the true joy of education, that splendid feeling of professional satisfaction and achievement that we all deserve.

Grow yourself in order to grow your team.

Do you spend your days managing others only to find you’re still putting out fire after fire? What if there was a better way to get things done? There is—leadership coaching is disrupting the scattered management era of education in all the right ways.

Get the tools and strategies needed to transform how you think about school supervision that builds capacity, leadership, and learning. This book will help you:

• Learn to use neuroscience research productively
• Expand your use of communication skills
• Understand examples of leaders implementing coach-like behaviors into everyday practice to produce results 
• Learn specific approaches to supervise and coach for growth 
• Approach difficult conversations that impact thinking and change with confidence

At the crux of coaching culture is mindset—this book will teach you how to cultivate a growth  mindset and strong emotional intelligence as you coach and  grow  capacity in others.

"RESULTS Coaching Next Steps invites leaders to function as coaches and clearly teaches them how to coach. It is truly transformational for those unfamiliar with coach leadership and for veteran coaches alike. This book transformed me as a school principal and continues to serve as a fundamental resource in training school leaders. It is without a doubt my top recommendation to anyone who asks how to learn coach-leader skills."
—Dr. Hank Staggs, ACC, Director
Governors Academy for School Leadership, Tennessee

"Finally! Another must-have for my professional library! RESULTS Coaching Next Steps speaks to education leaders who continue to focus on being a coach leader, no matter what their title or position. The book drives novice and experienced coaches to reconnect to the essentials and renews your commitment to never interact the same way again."
—Kim Richardson ACC
Teacher Development Coordinator, Hampton City Schools

Help teachers listen, learn, and lead for powerful school reform!

Teacher insight and experience is a powerful yet underutilized resource in education, especially in these days of the new ESSA. Help teachers find their voice and positively influence their school’s learning environment with this inspiring guide. Student aspirations pioneer, Russell Quaglia, helps you expertly facilitate the process. Using the author’s three-part School Voice Model, you’ll discover in-depth action steps to help you incorporate teacher voice that has to be heard to sustain change.

With Quaglia and Lande’s clear, step-by-step guidance, teacher interviews, reflections, and expert research, you’ll help teachers:

• Work collaboratively for school change
• Inspire and positively affect education stakeholders 
• Effectively express themselves 
• Build self-worth and realize their potential 
• Increase engagement and define a sense of purpose
• Amplify their voice via technology
  

Bolster teacher leadership and improve retention, innovation, professional development, and student achievement with this breakthrough guide!

"In this innovative book, Russell Quaglia and Lisa Lande sets out how we can change that and how the voice of teachers can serve to systematically advance the knowledge-base of the profession and establish opportunities for exchange, collaboration and support. In today’s world, even the best Minister of Education can no longer solve the challenges of millions of teachers. But if we can capitalise on the expertise of millions of teachers, we can create the world’s best school system.”
Andreas Schleicher
OECD

"Quaglia and Lande have produced a treasure trove of new and high leverage ideas. Teachers Voice contains two powerful messages. One is that teacher voice contains the seeds of widespread transformation of learning. The other main message, alas, is that teacher voice is vastly under utilized---and teachers know it! This book is a call and guide to action to leverage a resource that is under our noses. Read it and act."
Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
 
"Teaching and fishing? Only a couple very imaginative educators would pair these two topics in a book. But that is just what Russell Quaglia and Lisa Lande have done, and that is just what they are—imaginative, optimistic, and deep-thinking educators. Their triadic epigram—Listen, Learn, Lead—would have saved many a frustrated school administrator who thought they should start with 'lead.' This book is chock-full of sound advice, practical ideas, and voices of teachers, all describing how teachers work together and communicate with each other, with students, and with parents. Who, other than teachers, deserves a more prominent, yes central, role in any discussion of how schools improve. This is a delightful read that makes a less-imaginative educator want to get up in the morning and go to work. Or go fishing." 
Dr. Sam Redding, Executive Director
Academic Development Institute

Make a deep impact today that leaves a growing legacy for tomorrow.

Learn to lead well and leave a lasting impact with this compact, richly innovative book from the Corwin Impact Leadership series. Discover six specific leadership attributes to stimulate deep learning— and deep leadership— that transforms schools for the future. 

Concrete examples and critical, yet implementable action steps help you:

• Commit to deep, meaningful work 
• Master the content and process of change
• Co-learn and co-lead simultaneously 
• Collaboratively develop individuals and groups 
• Link your goals to the larger school system
• Produce new, capable leaders  

Uncover new ways of thinking and acting, for you and for those you lead, with this powerful leadership guide!

Other books by Corwin:

1. Quaglia: Principal Voice
2. Zhao: Teaching for Greatness
3. Glaze: Avis Glaze’s Impact Leadership

"Few today have broader and deeper insights than Michael Fullan in helping to develop leadership amidst the cross currents of today’s school environments. Two of Fullan’s timely insights in Indelible Leadership—Students themselves are the hidden agents for deep change, and the real leadership capabilities needed today can be learned."

Peter Senge

MIT and Academy for Systemic Change

"This book provides a wonderfully clear and concise guide for education leaders who want to make a real difference in the midst of challenging times. Fullan is a master!"

Tony Wagner, Author

The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators

"A wonderful collection that addresses issues important in today's classrooms. This is an invaluable tool for any educator willing to strive for personal, student, and schoolwide excellence."
—Gayla LeMay, Social Studies Teacher
Louise Radloff Middle School, Duluth, GA

"Presseisen has skillfully assembled an exceptionally fine collection of articles."
—Burt Saxon, Adjunct Professor
Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University

A vast world of thought, inquiry, and wisdom for educating all learners.

This remarkable collection features an interview with Howard Gardner and includes contributions from such luminaries as Robert J. Sternberg, Robert R. Spillane, Arthur L. Costa, Linda Darling-Hammond, Dorothy Strickland, Joseph S. Renzulli, and Joyce VanTassel-Baska. The insightful articles encourage educators to examine their perspectives about the nature of intelligence, standardized testing, and curriculum requirements. Readers will be able to evaluate critical questions such as:

• What does teaching for intelligence mean?
• Who is the intelligent learner?
• What do educators and scientists have to say about teaching for intelligence?

Updated with current research, this thought-provoking resource looks closely at current classroom instructional practice, students' intellectual development, and how educators view students in the learning process.