High-Payoff Strategies: How Education Leaders Get Results

Powerful leadership is a strong component of a school's influence on student success. How can you become a culture-altering school principal? How can your teachers establish themselves as curriculum changers? And how do young educators grow into valuable school leaders? How Principals Get Results: The 3 C's Of Successful Change Leadership answers these questions and many more. The book gives you real-life examples and practical strategies from successful principals across a diverse range of schools. By implementing the five practices highlighted in this text, you can become an influential school leader and improve achievement for all your students.

There is a connection between strong leadership and successful students. How Principals Get Results: The 3 C's Of Successful Change Leadership shares the detailed research collected over the past decade by the reputed Wallace Foundation, which will help you discover that connection and build upon it. The book also shares actual success stories to motivate and encourage you as you exercise the five practices outlined. Using the practices in this text will enable you to:

• Build supportive district and school culture
• Lead your school in making curriculum changes
• Develop a learning community among your district personnel and your school workers
• Learn helpful strategies to implement to build school leaders

By combining the latest survey research with actual practices from a number of education leaders across a diverse demographic,How Principals Get Results: The 3 C's Of Successful Change Leadership provides you with the necessary tools to create change in culture, curriculum, and community.

JODY SPIRO, EdD, Director of Education Leadership at The Wallace Foundation, is the author ofLeading Change Step-by-Step: Tactics, Tools, and Tales (Jossey-Bass, 2011).