Academic Lessons

Once the school leadership team has completed the data mining and goal setting parts of academic leadership, their tasks expanded to include planning for the… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 7

Years ago, teachers used to talk about the “big” learning months – September, October, January, February, and March – because these months offered large blocks… Read More »The October Imperative – The Academic Leader

The Academic Leadership Year – The July Period (Part Six) If leadership has done adequate pre-planning and provided teachers with time to collect and organize… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 6

Years ago, teachers used to talk about the “big” learning months – September, October, January, February, and March – because these months offered large blocks… Read More »The October Imperative – The Effect of Teachers

Once schools know the number of students needed for success, their next step would be to identify the teachers of the assessed areas and their… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 5

When working with underperforming schools, Ed Directions’ coaches always emphasize that a school cannot improve scores by setting out to improve scores. In our approach… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 4

In states with more detailed district and school reports, we can carry our analysis to another level. In states that offer information on individual student… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 3

Once we have established where students are expected to be as learners and performers by the time they take a test or transition to the… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 2

There are lots of things for school leaders to do between the time students leave school to the time they return for the next year,… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 1

This tool can be used to focus academic leader/teacher end-of-year conferences and teacher professional development planning, or can be used by teachers to begin the rethinking of their program for next year’s students