This webinar with Dr. Douglas B. Reeves is an overview of The Leadership Performance Matrix.

Special Guests: Angela Peery & Cathy Lassiter

Compelling topics include:

• Five things principals need to do now to prepare for the Common Core
• Most important changes in literacy
• Most important changes in math
• Bringing Common Core to subjects beyond math and English language arts
• Challenges to anticipate
• How The Center can help

Special Guest: Steve Ventura

Changing classroom and leadership practices requires a notable degree of school-wide dedication and consistency. When we can greatly reduce the variation in teacher grading practices, we will improve student achievement.

Grades need to be accurate while supporting learning. This webinar will focus on the elements of effective grading and how these elements can help provide feedback that is accurate, specific, and timely. Participants will have an opportunity to identify their most urgent needs in terms of grading, feedback, and accuracy, while looking at ways to implement some of the best teaching and leadership behaviors to improve grading.

Special Guest: Connie Kamm

Join Douglas B. Reeves and Connie Kamm for a webinar focused on a comprehensive accountability planning process that provides clarity and cohesiveness to the overall vision and mission of any school or district. As one of the authors of the book Activate, Connie discusses how this system acts as a “North Star” guiding the work of leaders in a deliberate and planned manner. Connie provides readers with real-life scenarios and research-based practices to support readers in beginning their own accountability system.

New York Principal Practice Rubric

The web address referred to by Connie Kamm during this webinar is http://www.ohioleadership.org/pd/user_mod.php. You will need to create an account on the site to gain access to all of the content. After registering, click on OLAC Learning Modules.

Special Guests: Connie Kamm and Cathy Lassiter

In this interactive Webinar, Dr. Douglas B. Reeves and his colleagues at The Leadership and Learning Center will present new ideas in linking the assessment of students, teachers, and leaders to create a new generation of accountability systems. “Three forces are driving a new look at accountablity systems,” Dr. Reeves contends. “First, states and districts have significant financial incentives to create new evaluation systems. Second, poorly planned and executed evaluation systems will have unintended and potentially disastrous consequences. Third, test-based accountablity is insufficient to meet the needs of students, educational leaders, and policymakers.” This webinar will address the challenges and opportunities of new generation accountability systems and provide practical alternatives for school, district, and state leaders.

Learn how to maximize productivity of your resources (time, money, and leadership) in focusing them toward the most effective instructional initiatives and strategic use of your operations. Take-away a solid understanding of ways to maximize the impact of your investment through the use of key tools like the Implementation Audit and the Resource Optimization service.

Power strategies for effective teaching are the instructional strategies that educators employ to significantly and quickly raise academic achievement in all subject areas. In addition to teacher collaboration and the examination of student work, widespread implementation of these strategies can produce dramatic results. Please join Dr. Angela Peery for a webinar highlighting several power strategies that are supported by decades of research by John Hattie, Robert Marzano, Douglas Reeves, and other renowned educators.

In this presentation, Douglas B. Reeves shares important research and practical strategies that link student achievement to effective teaching and leadership. The content will include the highlights from The Center’s Leadership Institutes.

• Leadership essentials of focus, monitoring, and efficacy
• Maximizing leadership time
• Feedback for leaders, teachers, and students
• Building collaborative culture
• Defining decision-making processes

One of the greatest challenges of educational leadership is motivation, particularly when schools are facing financial crises. In the words of one superintendent, “It’s pretty hard to motivate people who might lose their jobs.”  While there is no denying the economic realities of today, there are clear, positive, and free strategies that leaders can use that can have a positive impact on staff at every level.  In this interactive webinar, we will consider the preponderance of the evidence on staff motivation, including:

• The power of non-financial incentives
• Key mistakes to avoid in financial incentives
• How leaders reward the wrong behavior
• Purpose and passion—the best motivators of all
• Maintaining the leader’s personal motivation
• Motivating community stakeholders in challenging times

The “Implementation Gap” is the difference between the planning and announcement of new initiatives and the actual implementation of them.  In this important Webinar for district and school-level educational leaders, Dr. Reeves will help participants consider the following questions:

• How do I measure the implementation of initiatives?
• How do I gain focus at the organizational level?
• How do I gain focus at the school level?
• How do I gain focus at the individual level?
• What is a process for “weeding the garden” without uprooting our most important ideas?
• What are the risks and rewards of closing the implementation gap?