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McREL: Turning what works in teaching, leading, and learning into innovation and results

         Balanced Leadership®: Leadership Development that Makes a Difference
Learn more about McREL's Balanced Leadership program, which has helped more than 10,000 leaders nationwide learn how to translate research into results in their schools.
         McREL online teacher & principal evaluation systems
Measure what matters most and improve performance with McREL's personnel evaluation systems.
         Power Walkthrough® Seminar & Software
With McREL's Power Walkthrough software and training, school leaders can turn their regular classroom observations into "power walkthroughs" by using hand-held devices loaded with McREL software that uses our popular manual, Classroom Instruction that Works as the basis for observing teachers.
         Balanced Leadership Consortia
         Balanced Leadership District Level: District-Level Leadership: A Systems Perspective
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Managing Change
         Balanced Leadership School Level: The Focus of Leadership
         Balanced Leadership School Level: An Overview
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Developing a Purposeful Community
         Power Walkthrough® Informal Observation Seminar & Software
         Asking the Right Questions: A School Change Toolkit
         Balanced Leadership Profile®
         Imagine the Unimaginable
         Leading Schools: Distinguishing the Essential from the Important
         McREL Insights—From Knowledge to Wisdom: Using Case Methodology to Develop Effective Leaders
         Noteworthy Perspectives: High Reliability Organizations in Education
         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]
         Creating Purposeful Communities [Changing Schools, Winter 2008]
         Understanding resistance: Lessons from a river [Changing Schools, Fall 2007]
         Education Service Agencies: Initiating, Sustaining, and Advancing School Improvement
         Policy Brief - School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement
         Policy Brief: ESEA Flexibility: Department of Education Criteria and State Responses
         Policy Brief: Focusing on the Basics in Beat-the-Odds Schools
         ABEC Annual Leadership Conference: From High Anxiety to High Reliability: Striking the Right Balance
         ABEC Annual Leadership Conference: Mindfulness: Aligned Structures and Processes
         Accountability for What Works, What Matters, and What’s Next: Accountability for High-Reliability Education
         AESA Resources for McREL's Educator Effectiveness Suite
         CCOSA presentation: District Leadership that Works
         EASTCONN ESA: Changing the Odds for U.S. Students
         From Managing Conflict to Leading Change
         IAPSS: School District Leadership that Works
         Lake County: From Beating the Odds to Changing Them
         Lake County: From Managing Conflict to Leading Change
         RIISA: From Boardrooms to Classrooms: Leadership for High(er) Reliability Education
         Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA) Summer Leadership Conference
         Seton Hall University: Leadership for High-Reliability Organizations
         The Association of School Business Officials—School Business Leadership that Works: Striking the Right Balance
         Wichita Falls presentation: Leadership for High(er) Reliability Education
         Balanced Leadership®: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us about the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement
         Identifying Differences Between Two Groups of High-Needs High Schools
         Leadership: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         McREL Reports for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         School District Leadership that Works®: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement
         McREL's Principal Evaluation System
         Asking the Right Questions: A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement
         District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance
         Leadership Folio Series: Guiding Comprehensive School Reform
         Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement
         School Leadership That Works: From Research to Results
         Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success
         The Balanced Leadership Framework®: Connecting Vision with Action

         Changing Schools, Summer 2009: Culture: A school's secret sauce