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  • Overview
  • Leadership Diagnostic
  • Leadership Cohort
  • Feedback
  • Instructional Leadership
  • Systems Thinking
  • Climate and Culture
  • Collaborative Teams
  • Built to Improve
  • From Data to Decisions
  • Leader to Leader Coaching
  • More
    • Overview
    • Leadership Diagnostic
    • Leadership Cohort
    • Feedback
    • Instructional Leadership
    • Systems Thinking
    • Climate and Culture
    • Collaborative Teams
    • Built to Improve
    • From Data to Decisions
    • Leader to Leader Coaching
  • Overview
  • Leadership Diagnostic
  • Leadership Cohort
  • Feedback
  • Instructional Leadership
  • Systems Thinking
  • Climate and Culture
  • Collaborative Teams
  • Built to Improve
  • From Data to Decisions
  • Leader to Leader Coaching

Instructional Leadership in Practice

  Keep teaching and learning at the center of your day, even when operations try to take over.

FORMAT Semester or year-long engagement · On-site walkthroughs and side-by-side coaching · For principals and leadership teams  

Sound Familiar?

"Discipline and operations eat my day before I reach a classroom."

"Discipline and operations eat my day before I reach a classroom."

"Discipline and operations eat my day before I reach a classroom."

"We have too many initiatives and no clear instructional focus."

"Discipline and operations eat my day before I reach a classroom."

"Discipline and operations eat my day before I reach a classroom."

"We do walkthroughs, but the data just sits there."

"Discipline and operations eat my day before I reach a classroom."

"We do walkthroughs, but the data just sits there."

What the work looks like

  • Choose one instructional focus and define what it looks like in classrooms
  • A walkthrough routine that spots patterns across the building
  • Protected calendars so instruction comes first
  • Side-by-side coaching during walkthroughs and team meetings 

How we measure success

  • Share of leader time spent on instruction, from calendar audits
  • How consistently the focus practice shows up in classrooms
  • Student growth on the targeted skill
  • Walkthrough data that leads to decisions and follow-up 

Anchored in "What's Holding You Back"

Built on the book's Bedrock Framework and its practical tools for keeping instruction first. Every engagement includes copies of the book.  

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