A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0 - by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Build better schools by training better leaders

A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership answers the question that district leaders have been asking across the country: if Leverage Leadership is a roadmap for principals on how to lead great schools, what can principal managers and districts do to support them on that path? A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership offers a step-by-step guide to coaching principals to the highest levels of achievement, and it is rooted in studying the most successful principal managers and districts across the country. It can be used by principal managers/supervisors, superintendents, district and state leadership, and principal training organizations to accelerate the growth of principals in your community. Used in conjunction with Leverage Leadership 2.0, this book identifies the key actions principal managers should take to create exceptional school leaders, integrating the seven levers of leadership into district culture from the principal manager on up. With a particular emphasis on the two "super-levers" of data-driven instruction and student culture, this book is packed with advice, professional development materials, and real-world videos of principal managers in action, offering principal managers a valuable resource for bringing about change.

A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership introduces a new unifying approach that is also highlighted in Leverage Leadership 2.0 See It, Name It, Do It. It gives you the tools to See it (see models of effective practice and identify gaps), Name it (name concrete actions for improvement) and Do it (provide means to practice these action steps until a principal masters them)

With A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership in hand, principal managers, superintendents and principal training organizations can facilitate district-wide and state-wide transformations and hasten the benefit to the students and community as a whole.

From the Back Cover

TO BUILD GREAT SCHOOLS AT SCALE, MAKE THE SHIFT FROM ADMINISTRATOR TO INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER

A common refrain among principal managers is: "Nothing prepared me for this." Support and training for leaders who transition from serving as principals to managing principals is scarce. Who leads these leaders--and how can they tell whether their work is making an impact?

That's where this book comes in. A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0 gives you the framework and tools to shift your approach from administration to instructional leadership. With this book in hand, you can start developing principals instead of just evaluating them, making direct improvements to teaching and driving success across your schools.

• Improve your capacity to coach principals to accelerate their development, using a trajectory of leader action steps linked to the seven levers of leadership
• Create the conditions for district-wide success by offering flexible support and increased in-school presence
• Design your schedule to maximize time spent on instructional leadership
• Utilize ready-made training materials and video clips to lead workshops for your leadership team and streamline implementation

Whether your schools are large or small, rural or urban, successful or struggling, your principals can thrive with your guidance. The path ahead may be long, but this book provides the roadmap you've been looking for.

"If your goal is to become a more strategic practitioner, you must have A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0 in your library! It provides educational leaders at all levels with practical tools to accelerate principals' development to impact learning outcomes for students. This book emphasizes what we already know: the real work is done before you even step foot in the classroom! This book has transformed the way I support my school leaders."
--Celeste Douglas, Assistant Superintendent, District 18, New York City Public Schools

"Paul has few peers in the crusade to ensure school leaders have high fidelity, high priority practices critical to grow the capacity of their teachers so they can ensure student growth. His latest book fills another void: a clear, detailed map for principal supervisors and coaches to travel further down the road towards student growth. Inspiring...and our school leaders are so thankful!"
--Rosemary Perlmeter, Founding Director, Master's in Urban School Leadership, SMU

"Working with Bambrick-Santoyo and the content of this book has been a defining event in my professional life which has made me stronger and better (faster). Following the guidance and protocols set forth in A Principal Manager's Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0 helped me strengthen my practice and build the capacity of the leaders I support. Now principal managers have a common language and tools to have a laser-focus on improving the teaching and learning, which can profoundly impact student achievement--as it has for us."
--Jeanine Zitta, EdD, Network Superintendent, St. Louis Public Schools

About the Author

PAUL BAMBRICK-SANTOYO is the chief schools officer for Uncommon Schools and the founder and dean of the Leverage Leadership Institute, creating proof points of excellence in urban schools nationwide. Author of Driven by Data; Leverage Leadership 2.0; Great Habits, Great Readers; and Get Better Faster, Bambrick-Santoyo has trained more than twenty thousand school leaders worldwide in instructional leadership, including multiple schools that have gone on to become the highest-gaining or highest-achieving schools in their districts, states, and/or countries.