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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.
         Power Walkthrough® Software and Training
McREL's popular Power Walkthrough software & training can be delivered in multiple formats to meet your needs and budget:
         Balanced Leadership Consortia
         Balanced Leadership for Technology Consortium
         School District Leadership that Works®: Leadership Services for School Districts
         Balanced Leadership District-Level Leadership Foundation Series Institute
         Balanced Leadership District Level: School District Leadership That Works: An Overview
         Balanced Leadership District Level: Connecting District and School Leadership to Student Achievement
         Balanced Leadership District Level: District-Level Leadership: A Systems Perspective
         Balanced Leadership School Level: An Overview
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Developing a Purposeful Community
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Managing Change
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Choosing the Right Focus
         What Works with ELLs: Academies for Instructional Leaders
         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: 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, Summer 2009—Culture: A school's secret sauce
         Changing Schools, Winter 2008—Creating Purposeful Communities
         Understanding resistance: Lessons from a river [Fall 2007 Changing Schools article]
         Education Service Agencies: Initiating, Sustaining, and Advancing School Improvement
         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
         AASA Summer Leadership Conference (Breakout session)—From High Anxiety to High Reliability; School District Leadership That Works
         Houston Independent School District 11/19/2009: Balanced Leadership—School Leadership That Works
         NSDC 5th Annual Summer Conference Presentation—From Fear to Hope: Practical tools for going the distance
         The Association of School Business Officials—School Business Leadership that Works: Striking the Right Balance
         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
         Identifying Differences Between Two Groups of High-Needs High Schools
         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
         Leadership for School Improvement
         School Leadership That Works: From Research to Results
         The Balanced Leadership Framework®: Connecting Vision with Action

         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.