Category: Leadership

Book cover titled Intentional Moves: How Skillful Team Leaders Impact Learning by Elisa B. MacDonald, featuring multicolored curved ribbons forming arcs above a white background.

Moves to Help Team Leaders Impact Learning

In “Intentional Moves” Elisa B. MacDonald lays out ready-to-use strategies for team leaders, insightfully describing to readers how her 10 moves will play out within different team dynamics. After four years as a team leader, reviewer Katie Dunkin still keeps the book handy.

Finding Your Way as a Woman Education Leader

Cofino and Botbyl offer an accessible mentorship resource for women seeking to enhance their leadership skills and effectiveness. Principal DeAnna Miller found many valuable insights for both women who aspire to ed leadership roles and those interested in mentoring future leaders.

Lead Collaboratively for Positive Change

Turning It Around by Todd Whitaker and Courtney Monterecy provides both a conceptual framework and a tactical approach for educational leaders committed to creating schools truly worthy of their students through a dual lens of incremental improvement and systemic change.

Support Top Teachers to Benefit Everyone

Invest in Your Best is full of practical insights that any school leader can trust will lead to improved retention of their most effective teachers. Implementing the book’s ideas will also benefit the whole faculty and students, writes Wisconsin systems coach Matt Renwick.

Create the School Your Students Deserve

With its tools, approaches and ideas that can work in any school, Turning It Around by Todd Whitaker and award-winning principal Courtney Monterecy is a valuable addition to the literature on school improvement, writes former principal and leadership expert Dr. Ron Williamson.

A Leadership Blueprint for Growth and Success

Whether read individually or as a group study, Melissa Collins’ book will help educators understand the growth cycle of a teacher leader and to reflect on their own experiences. Collins includes teacher leader roles beyond the classroom, notes reviewer Stacy Haynes-Moore.