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Back from Break PD Edition

The Question I Had Been Waiting For

Why I am recruiting pissed off teachers

It’s baseline - you have to believe in them

Feedback is Clarity Wrapped in Discomfort

Celebrating 100 Articles: 10 Highlights that Changed Me

Stay conversation guide

This is the week to have "stay" conversations

Why “People Quit Their Bosses” is a Short-Sighted View

You Don’t Still Got It

Action Step of the Week: Call and Response Question

Playing for Two Teams: Framing District Initiatives

Why Teachers Should Be the Smartest People in the World

Hi, I'm new here

Now what?

See the Bar to Reach the Bar Part 2

See the Bar to Reach the Bar Part 1

Chapter 3 Preview: Who Do You Need Me to Be?

Action Step of the Week: Poll Questions

The single strategy to accelerate collective efficacy the fastest

Engagement Won't Do It

Action Step of the Week: Everybody Writes

The trouble with Jeremy...

Chapter 2 Preview: Who Do You Need Me to Be?

Action Step of the Week: Attention-Getter

The Power of Closing Questions in Coaching: Making It Stick

Action Step of the Week: Explicit Modeling

The Clicker That Sparked Tears

Action Step of the Week: Narrate Student Behavior

Empathy-based Stress vs. Compassionate Responding

Action Step of the Week: Cooperative Learning Groups

Chapter 1 Preview: Who Do You Need Me to Be?

Small Slights, Lasting Ripples: How Emotional Breaches Shape Trust

Action Step of the Week: Monitor the Do Now

The Absence Issue Conversation

Is this something that requires my immediate attention?

Action Step of the Week: Select Questions for Guided Practice

I'm sorry, Ms. Doe (Part 2)

I'm sorry, Ms. Doe (Part 1)

From Compliance to Ownership: The Power of Redirecting Questions

The mindset all school leaders must have

Back-to-School PD Edition

Replacing "Should"

Action Step of the Week: Think Questions (Culminating Focus Questions)

The Micro-Yes

The Influencer, Micromanager, and Catalyzer

The Ripple Effect of Coaching

Building Trust: Small Behaviors, Big Impact

Mastering Accountability: Using Low-Inference Notes to Counter the 4Ds

Action Step of the Week: Text Application

The Low-Inference Note Guide

If you ever get set on fire, I'll warn you: Your training fails you

Leading the Science of Reading Edition

"So your action step is..."

"I trust that this will no longer be an issue moving forward"

Action Step of the Week: Sound-by-Sound Blending

The Teaching Intervention Matrix

Hope is a Fickle Friend

Seeking the Coachable Disrupter

Action Step of the Week: Do It Again

Playing for Two Teams

Eyes, Ears, and Allies: The Multifaceted Role of Transition Teams

4 Things to Know About Empathy-Driven Coaching

Action Step of the Week: MVP Directions

Fingerprinting goal setting

Who the f**k is the system?

Communicating beliefs through feedback

Schools are always improving but never truly getting better

4 Ways to Build Productive Mindsets in Professional Development

The case against a principal's "open-door policy"

Action Step of the Week: Narrate Student Behavior

Navigating choppy waters: end-of-year messages for resilience and support

The Termination Conversation

Action Step of the Week: Assign a Do Now

How to practice without a role-play

The Position Change Conversation

Action Step of the Week: Hunt for Exemplar

The hidden costs of standardized testing

Action Step of the Week: Stop and Jot

Supporting Resigning Teachers: A Guide for School Leaders

Are you seriously making me role-play?

Action Step of the Week: Turn-and-Talk

Action Step of the Week: Annotation

5 Signs You're Not as Self-Aware as You Think

Action Step of the Week: Partner Reading a Shared Text

Empowered women empower women - but what if they are disempowered?

Action Step of the Week: Creation of a Learning Goal

3 hypocritical things leaders say that make their teachers hate them

The Action Step Primer

Less is more: narrowing to a single strategy

What do you want for dinner?

The announcement my grad students probably won't read, but you should

3 Things Leaders Should Avoid When Promoting Accountability

The Accountability Phrase Every School Leader Needs

Thank you, accountability. Can I have another?

Is empathy the missing piece in the puzzle of accountability?

I was here to save the world

Does compliance kill ownership?

4Ds and Some Powerhouse Responses

4 Ways to Build Productive Mindsets in Professional Development

What really is coaching?

4Ds in action: lesson planning

The 4Ds for Avoiding Accountability: Creating a Culture of Accountability

4Ds for Avoiding Accountability

Why "How Did the Lesson Go?" Is an Ineffective Coaching Question

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually