To ensure learning for all students, schools must first build support systems that guarantee excellence for all teachers. This resource examines the Hierarchy of Instructional Excellence, which prioritizes the order of teacher development for ultimate success. Each chapter begins with a teacher narrative and ends with a reflection tool, which challenges readers to apply chapter content to their work as education leaders.
Benefits
Learn why teachers need to know their students as deeply as they know the lessons they share with these students if they want to maximize learning.
Study research that proves we need excellent teachers for students to experience significant growth in learning.
Consult schoolwide, team, and individualized support systems and interventions, which strengthen teachers at every level of need and experience.
Learn how the author's Hierarchy of Instructional Excellence relates to Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in order to address specific areas for teacher improvement and growth.
Contents
Introduction
1 Every Teacher Counts
2 Leading for Excellence-Learning Resources
3 Leading for Excellence-Classroom Routines and Procedures
4 Leading for Excellence-Relationships for Learning
5 Leading for Excellence-Student Engagement
6 Leading for Excellence-Rigor and Mastery
7 Leading for Excellence-Creative Strategies for Individual Students
