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Aiming High
Leadership Actions to Increase Learning Gains

  • Evan Robb - Principal, Johnson-Williams Middle School; Berryville, VA


December 2021 | 216 pages | Corwin

Aim high to improve leading, teaching, and learning

Skillful leadership is critical as schools return to a new normalcy. Improving students’ learning and addressing the challenges many learners experienced due to recent learning interruptions are top priorities for all school leaders.

Aiming High offers leaders a framework for creating an environment where both effective instruction and a focus on social and emotional needs benefits all students and teachers. Evan Robb maps a route to building a positive, trusting culture of collaboration, creativity, and empowerment. Features include:

  • An outline of the leadership elements required to build a learner-focused culture
  • Tools for fostering productive collaboration, creating shared teacher leadership, and building trusting relationships
  • Insightful tips for addressing complexities that come with new learning formats
  • Provocative questions that guide readers toward redefining instructional leadership

Your mission as leader is clear: aim high, work intentionally and collaboratively with teachers, and create a refreshed school culture centered on learning and growth for all.


 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Introduction
 
Chapter 1. Redefining Instructional Leadership
 
Chapter 2. Collaborative Leadership: Activate, Influence, and Elevate
 
Chapter 3. Building Trusting Relationships
 
Chapter 4. Supporting Students and Staff Through Professional Learning
 
Chapter 5. Creating a Culture of Access, Equity, and High Expectations
 
Chapter 6. Leading for Literacy
 
Chapter 7. Leading for Numeracy
 
Chapter 8. Next Steps: Leading a Culture of Learning
 
Appendix
 
References
Key features

In this book, school leaders from instructional coaches to central office staff will find:

- A positive, strengths-based focus on learning gains, rather than learning loss
- Long-term strategies for improving instruction and increasing achievement
- A focus on literacy and numeracy to help all students improve
- Short, easy-to-read approach to lasting improvement

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