Balanced Leadership Institute: Choosing the Right Focus
 

• School- and classroom-level practices and student characteristics correlated with achievement
• Sustaining leadership and continuous improvement
• Tools to asses the extent to which research-based practices are implemented
• Tools to select research-based practices.
• Building capacity and using reflective practice

McREL's meta-analytic research identifying research-based classroom practices, school practices, and leadership responsibilities positively associated with high levels of student achievement is the basis for this session.

• Balanced Leadership: Choosing the Right Focus Participant's Manual
• The Balanced Leadership Framework: Connecting Vision with Action

Requirement:
Prior to this session, attend Balanced Leadership: An Overview, Developing a Purposeful Community, and/or Managing Change and read School Leadership that Works: From Research to Results (ASCD, 2005) by Marzano, Waters, & McNulty. In addition, we strongly recommended reading What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action (ASCD, 2003) by R. J. Marzano and Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (ASCD, 2001) by Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock.

Costs
$350* per participant per session ($50 processing fee is waived when registering for additional sessions and for guest registrations)

*Continental breakfast and lunch provided daily.

• Balanced Leadership Profile®
• School Leadership That Works: From Research to Results
• Balanced Leadership Institutes at McREL