Educational Leadership

teacher can get into a rut by doing the same thing semester after semester. Have you talked with your teachers lately about their jobs? Asking, “What could I do to help you become a better teacher?” always yields rich responses. If nothing else, the question reminds teachers about your role and lets them know that you care. (Know, though, that when you ask that question, you need to be prepared to at least consider what they suggest!)

Is there a way to help a teacher
reinvent his or her job? Can you offer
some new technology? Would switching
locations or assignments help? Is there
an opportunity for teachers to come
together and capitalize on one another’s
talents and ideas in creating curriculum?
What would happen if you formed
cross-grade or cross-discipline teams
to look at student growth? How might
the art and social studies teachers learn
from one another? What insights could
kindergarten and 6th grade teachers
trade?

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2Herzberg, F. (1987, September– October). One more time: How do you motivate employees? Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from www.facilitif.eu/ user_files/file/herzburg_article.pdf.

CORE READY SERIES by Pam Allyn

Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards such as literary narrative, comprehension and critique in reading, informational reading and writing, and persuasive writing. “The Common Core State Standards are a Bill of Rights for all children.” —Pam Allyn

ISBN: 9780132907460

The series is founded on the author’s 4 Doors to Core Ready, an easy to use yet strikingly brilliant way to access and organize all of the content within the standards.

“Core Ready Lesson Sets will make the standards fully accessible to you and ensure that you are supported in helping every child reach and even exceed the goals that the standards have set forth.”