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The Importance of Effective Instructional Leadership
Week 1: High-Performance Instructional Leadership Fundamentals
1 Understanding Why Instructional Leaders Belong in Classrooms
Build Strong Professional Relationships
Enhance Professional Development
Day 1 Action Challenge: Determine Your Baseline for Classroom Visits
2 Following the High-Performance Instructional Leadership Model
Make Criterion-Referenced Visits
Make Conversation-Oriented Visits
Day 2 Action Challenge: Find Your Framework
3 Acknowledging Related Instructional Leadership, Supervision, and Walkthrough Models
Learning Walks and Instructional Rounds
Day 3 Action Challenge: Review Your Instructional Leadership Models
4 Conducting Your First Two Cycles of Visits
Conduct Your First Cycle of Visits
Look Ahead to Your Second Cycle of Visits
Day 4 Action Challenge: Visit Your First Three Classrooms
5 Thinking Ahead to Your Third Cycle of Visits
Keep an Open Mind
Prepare Staff for Your Third Round of Visits
Take Notes and Share Them With Teachers
Forge Stronger Links to Your Instructional Framework
Experience the Rewards of the Classroom Habit
Day 5 Action Challenge: Visit a Team
Week 2: High-Performance Habits
6 Making Time to Visit Classrooms
Reduce Interruptions From Emergencies
Create Time Through Self-Discipline
Schedule Short Time Blocks for Visiting Classrooms
Coordinate and Track Your Visits
Day 6 Action Challenge: Schedule Your Classroom Visit Blocks
7 Keeping Your Communication Channels Under Control
Stay Current
Streamline Your Information Sources
Reduce Interruptions From Non-Emergency Communication
Avoid “Fuzzy” Channels for Important Requests
Process Your Inboxes
Day 7 Action Challenge: Streamline Your Inboxes and Communication
8 Managing the Work You’re Not Doing Yet
Separate Planning From Doing
Use a Task-Management App
Keep Your Task Lists Short
Prioritize Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Day 8 Action Challenge: Link Everything to Your Task-Management App’s Inbox
Organize by Action With the PEEP Approach
Organize by Due Date, Time Required, and Energy Level
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, but Not Out of Control
Day 9 Action Challenge: Set Up Your PEEPs
10 Maximizing Your Mental Energy With Habits
Learn How Patterns Become Habits
Understand How Habits Work
See Why Habits Matter
Conserve Mental Energy With Habits
Learn Five Ways to Change Your Habits
Day 10 Action Challenge: Inventory Your Habits
Week 3: High-Impact Instructional Conversations
11 Going Beyond Data Collection and the Feedback Sandwich
Learn Why Data Collection Undermines Professional Conversations
Understand Why the Feedback Sandwich Undermines Professional Conversations
Avoid Feedback Unrelated to Teachers’ Goals
Day 11 Action Challenge: Break the Suggestion Habit
12 Facilitating Evidence-Based Conversations
Ask Evidence-Based Questions
Ask Genuine Questions
Ground Conversation in Specific Evidence
Understand the Teacher’s Goals
Seek Context and Withhold Judgment
Evaluate Practice, Not Lessons
Day 12 Action Challenge: Refer to Evidence
13 Bringing a Shared Instructional Framework Into the Conversation
Understand Problems With Opinion-Based Conversations
Use the Instructional Framework as an Arbiter
Understand the Components of Your Instructional Framework
Make Sense of the Instructional Framework and Grain Size
Learn Strategies for Handling Disagreements About Performance
Day 13 Action Challenge: Use Instructional Framework Language
14 Developing Skills for High-Impact Conversations
Have Professionally Rewarding Conversations
Listen When Teachers Ask for Feedback
Understand How to Handle Teachers Who Become Defensive
Have Impactful Conversations
Accept a Lack of Closure
Day 14 Action Challenge: Engage Without Defensiveness
15 Handling the Toughest Conversations
React Thoughtfully When You’re Not Welcome
Discourage the Impromptu Dog-and-Pony Show
Keep Conversations on Track
Maintain Rigor and Accuracy in Discussing Levels of Practice
Day 15 Action Challenge: Prepare for Challenging Conversations
Week 4: High-Performance Instructional Leadership Enhancement
16 Building Your Feedback Repertoire
Write High-Quality Feedback
Learn the Vocabulary of Your Curriculum
Keep Your Feedback Repertoire Accessible With a Phrase Database
Structure Your Thinking With Templates
Build Trust With Consistency, Not Canned Feedback
Notice and Document What Matters Most
Use Your Feedback Repertoire in Conversation
Day 16 Action Challenge: Find Reusable Language
17 Balancing Your Formal Evaluation Responsibilities
Consider Everything Fair Game
Remember Contractual Restrictions on Informal Observations
Differentiate High Stakes and Low Stakes
Allocate Formal Evaluation Time With the 80:20 Rule
Close the High-Stakes Evidence Gap
Learn the Claim, Evidence, Interpretation, and Judgment Format for Writing Rock-Solid Evaluations
Day 17 Action Challenge: Identify High-Stakes Teachers
18 Identifying Improvements From Classroom Visits
Build Relational Trust
Use Classroom Visits to Enable Better Decision Making
Build a Common Vision
Day 18 Action Challenge: Identify Your Biggest Insights From Classroom Visits
19 Opening the Door to New Models of Professional Learning
Celebrate Exemplary Practice in Meetings and in Writing
Share Practice-Focused Video Clips
Facilitate Instructional Rounds
Engage in Student Shadowing
Day 19 Action Challenge: Share the Highlights
20 Choosing an Instructional Focus for an Observation Cycle
Ensure Broad Relevance
Establish Observability
Confirm Strategic Impact
A Word of Caution About Instructional Strategies
Day 20 Action Challenge: Choose a Focus for Cycle Three
21 Scaling Classroom Visits Across Your School and District
Scale Within Your School
Scale Across Your Network
Day 21 Action Challenge: Scale Up Your Success
