After reading the introduction and Chapter 1 in Leading with Focus, discuss what in your school experience would lead you to believe that it is important to have a coherent, content-rich curriculum that is delivered through lessons that require purposeful reading and writing. Why should these be priorities that a school leader guards? Include in your discussion how the 5 Steps in Schmoker’s formula for effective leadership could assist your school if leadership shifted to this focus on simplification.
Chapter 1 (Bambrick-Santoyo text)
View the video clips as indicated within the text. (The clips are short and model behaviors needed by a leader.)
Introduction and Chapter 1 (Schmoker text)
Read the Executive Summary and Review of Research (pages 3-19) in Review of Research: How Leadership Influences Student Learningby Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom. Click here to download.
John 14:6; Proverbs 1:7