Using evidence-based strategies, this inspiring handbook provides principals and teachers with a catalog of practiced "moves," or actions that upgrade performance, create durable motivation, and renew energy levels.

Take your leadership style to a whole new level! "Very powerful and user-friendly. If this book is carefully and intentionally implemented in schools, student performance will improve and principals and teachers can help eliminate achievement gaps." -Steve Hutton, Educational Consultant Villa Hills, KY Even the best principals and teachers need additional inspiration and energy to motivate students and even themselves. This inspiring handbook guides principals and teachers in upgrading their performance in the classroom and schoolwide. Using evidence-based strategies, John Parks Le Tellier provides a catalog of practiced "moves" to help create an empowering classroom climate, reinforce content, and increase or sustain motivation. Le Tellier offers four connections to becoming a highly effective leader. The Context Connection creates the "moves" to establish empowering classroom context; the Cognitive Connection updates educators on the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience; the Character Connection establishes character education′s importance to leadership practice; and the Classroom Connection develops strategies for accelerating learning, strengthening classroom management, and upgrading energy. Each chapter includes Leadership Notes that show you how specific moves can be used for Leadership initiatives. Learn to: Improve teaching effectiveness Improve student motivation Strengthen student character Implement and support leadership in the classroom Renew teachers′ energy and passion for their profession

A district administrator, principal, and elementary school teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin declares that Newtonian physics an inappropriate model for current leadership practices, and that quantum physics is. Readers are not expected to know anything about physics of any variety. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Offers education leaders practical advice and strategies to help them transform their schools into effective, accountable institutions better able to cope with the challenges schools face in the twenty-first century.

This capstone project was a study focused on how the practice of Quantum Learning and real world applicability could benefit student achievement in junior high school math classrooms that have become stagnant. Through this study a junior high curriculum was developed in order to enhance student achievement in mathematics. Quantum learning involves a classroom full of movement and procedures. Through this process students grasp a deeper understanding of mathematics with the ability to retain what they have learned. Understanding by Design was the curriculum model I chose to create my mathematics curriculum. By the practice of identifying what I wanted the students to learn before I developed the instruction, I felt I was able to better prepare myself for how I wanted to teach the students.

Provides leaders in the healthcare industry with the skills they need to ensure that their organizations are guided accurately and effectively through periods of transformation. As rapid changes continue to affect the healthcare system, this text offers strategies for handling challenges that arise in healthcare organizations to better assist leaders in creating a healing environment for both the providers and consumers of health care.