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         Balanced Leadership® Workshops
Learn how leaders make a difference for students
Learn what the largest-ever analysis of leadership reveals about how school- and district-level leaders make a difference for students.

McREL—Denver, Colo.
July 6–15, 2009
$299 (one day)   |   $575 (two days)   |   $825 (three days)
         District Leadership that Works: Striking the Right Balance
Learn how effective districts and superintendents raise student achievement.

District Leadership that Works offers research-based recommendations for setting and monitoring nonnegotiable goals for achievement and instruction at district and school levels.

By Robert Marzano and Tim Waters
         Balanced Leadership for Technology Consortium
         School District Leadership that Works®: Leadership Services for School Districts
         Balanced Leadership® Consortia
         Balanced Leadership® Institutes at McREL
         Balanced Leadership® (School Level) Institute: An Overview (July 6, 2009)
         Balanced Leadership® (School Level) Institute: Developing a Purposeful Community (July 7–8, 2009)
         Balanced Leadership® (School Level) Institute: Managing Change (July 9–10, 2009)
         Balanced Leadership® (School Level) Institute: Choosing the Right Focus (July 11, 2009—Saturday Session)
         Balanced Leadership® (District Level) Institute: School District Leadership That Works: An Overview (July 13, 2009)
         Balanced Leadership® (District Level) Institute: Connecting District and School Leadership to Student Achievement (July 14, 2009)
         Balanced Leadership® (District Level) Institute: District-Level Leadership: A Systems Perspective (July 15, 2009)
         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, 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
         ASCD Annual Conference 2009: Presentation by Tim Waters and Robert Marzano—From the Boardroom to the Classroom; value-added leadership
         Curriculum and Instruction Leadership Symposium (Breakout session)—Striking the Right Balance; the science and art of educational leadership
         Curriculum and Instruction Leadership Symposium (Keynote presentation)—Visionary Leadership in Challenging Times; From High Anxiety to High Reliability
         Monmouth County Superintendents Conference Presentation 3/25/2009: School District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance
         Solution Tree’s Conference on Standards and Assessment 4/22/2009: School District Leadership that Works: Striking the Right Balance
         Tennessee Educational LEADership Conference Keynote 9/24/2008: Balanced Leadership: School leadership that works
         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
         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.