Best bets for building a culture of shared leadership
by Rick Fisher and Sharon Nepote
Check out our new article published in The Learning Professional – The Learning Forward Journal
As we start 2025, school leaders have an opportunity to re-focus on what matters most: classroom instruction. We know that effective instruction leads to deeper learning and higher student achievement, so how are you helping all of your teachers become exemplary this school year?
A Free Webinar for Superintendents, Aspiring Superintendents, and School Board Members. Join us for this exclusive 30-minute webinar, featuring Michael Cornell, a highly successful superintendent and creator of the SUNY-Buffalo Aspiring Superintendent Program.
As teachers, the most critical academic skill we can help students develop is their proficiency as readers. This is true in ELA and every classroom, regardless of grade level or content area. If we want students to engage deeply with texts, collect and evaluate textual evidence, attend to important text features, and make meaningful notes, then we need to build their skills and confidence as proficient readers who regularly process texts in these ways. In this session, participants will explore two reading tools designed to engage students and empower them to address even the most rigorous literary and informative texts.
Learn how you can refine your work in teacher evaluation so that it fires up your team’s passion for collaborative growth and provides practical support for what matters most: Helping every teacher raise the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom.
Join us for this insightful, 30-minute webinar featuring practical tools and tips for implementing New York State’s Portrait of a Graduate components into your classrooms, schools, and districts. Aligned with the recommendations of the Blue-Ribbon Commission, this webinar will:
With KY’s latest Accountability & Assessment Data released, the question remains: How do we help all teachers, including new educators, become exemplary? Join Rick Fisher, a longtime KY educator and school improvement specialist, for a dynamic session on practical strategies that make exemplary teaching achievable. He will highlight key attributes of exemplary practice based on the KY Adapted Framework for Teaching, introduce simple, ready-to-use instructional tools, and show how these tools create a spillover effect that strengthens multiple framework components. Don’t miss it!
