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Helping school leaders make a difference
McREL is helping school leaders nationwide make difference in student achievement. Click on the links below to learn how our rigorous research, practical products, and expert services can help you become a better instructional leader. |
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 | Balanced Leadership ProfileTM
Principals...benchmark yourselves against the best. Complete this online survey to see how well you are fufilling the 21 responsibilities of effective leaders reported in School Leadership that Works. The self-assessment is absolutely free! |
| | Power WalkthroughTM seminar & software
With McREL's Power Walkthrough software and training, school leaders can turn their regular classroom observations into "power walkthroughs" by using palm-held devices loaded with McREL software that uses our popular manual, Classroom Instruction that Works as the basis for observing teachers. |
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 | School District Leadership that Works®: Leadership Services for School Districts |
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| | Balanced Leadership Institutes at McREL |
| | Balanced Leadership Institute: An Overview (June 25–26, 2008) |
| | Balanced Leadership Institute: Developing a Purposeful Community (June 27–28, 2008) |
| | Balanced Leadership Institute: Managing Change (June 30–July 1, 2008) |
| | Balanced Leadership Institute: Choosing the Right Focus (July 2–3, 2008) |
| | Balanced Leadership™ Consortia |
| | What Works with ELLs: Academies for Instructional Leaders |
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| | 2007 ABEC Presentation, Arizona: Leadership Matters |
| | 2008 NSBA Annual Conference: Superintendents, school boards, and student achievement: Dispelling the myth of the “blob” |
| | AASA and Monmouth County, New Jersey, Superintendents Conference |
| | AASA Leadership Conference |
| | Arizona Mega Conference Presentation: Connecting the Dots From the Boardroom to the Classroom |
| | Minnesota School Boards Association: From the Boardroom to the Classroom: Value added leadership |
| | Nebraska Superintendents Presentation: Superintendents, Board Members, and Student Achievement |
| | New Hampshire Administrators Association: Superintendents, School Boards, and Student Achievement |
| | New Hampshire Administrators Association: Superintendents, School Boards, and Student Achievement. P.M. Session |
| | Paterson, New Jersey, District Superintendent Leadership Team Presentation: District-level leadership — Dispelling the myth of the “blob” |
| | Paterson, New Jersey, Superintendent's Conference: What am I accountable for? Value-added leadership |
| | South Dakota Superintendent's Association Presentation: Superintendents, School Boards, and Student Achievement |
| | West Virginia Superintendents Leadership Conference, A.M. Presentation: Superintendents, Board Members, and Student Achievement |
| | West Virginia Superintendents Leadership Conference, P.M. Presentation: Superintendents, Board Members, and Student Achievement |
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| | School Leadership That Works®: From Research to Results |
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| | Asking the Right Questions: A School Change Toolkit |
| | Balanced Leadership Profile™ |
| | Examining the meaning of accountability: Reframing the construct |
| | Imagine the Unimaginable |
| | Leading Schools: Distinguishing the Essential from the Important |
| | Noteworthy Perspectives: What's Noteworthy on...Education Issues in the Heartland |
| | The Leadership We Need: Using research to strengthen the use of standards for administrator preparation and licensure programs |
| | Asking why when observing classrooms [Fall 2007 Changing Schools article] |
| | Changing Schools, Winter 2008—Creating Purposeful Communities |
| | Understanding resistance: Lessons from a river [Fall 2007 Changing Schools article] |
| | Policy Brief - Creating Conditions for Leadership Effectiveness: The District's Role |
| | Policy Brief - School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement |
| | Policy Brief: Focusing on the Basics in Beat-the-Odds Schools |
| | Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District Leaders Presentation |
| | MCCC "Closing the Achievement Gap" Summit Presentation: Value Added Leadership |
| | A Monograph on Creating Organizational Change Using a Living-Systems Approach |
| | Balanced Leadership™: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us about the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement |
| | School District Leadership that Works™: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement |
| | Asking the Right Questions: A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement |
| | Leadership Folio Series: Guiding Comprehensive School Reform |
| | Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement |
| | Leadership for School Improvement |
| | The Balanced Leadership Framework®: Connecting Vision with Action |
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 | The AASA Professor
A refereed journal written for professors of education leadership with a focus on research and best practices |
| | The Primacy of the Superintendent
This cover article for the March 2007 issue of School Administrator, written by Tim Waters and Robert Marzano of McREL, reports on the results of their meta-analytic research study on the effect of superintendents on student achievement. |
