Learning With Purpose: Approaches to a Meaningful School Visit
Visiting another school can be incredibly useful. School leaders get to walk through the building, see what people are doing, talk with students and s…
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Leading with Transparency: Closing the Feedback Loop with Purpose
Collecting feedback is a critical part of leading a responsive school—but it’s what happens after that matters most. When we ask for input, we set…
Turn Data Into Direction: Using PIN Analysis to Guide Schoolwide Improvement
Data can tell powerful stories, but only when we take time to understand what it reveals. In schools, where leaders juggle student needs, district pri…
Envisioning What’s Possible: Using Innovation Configuration Maps to Define the Ideal
At Inflexion, we believe meaningful school transformation doesn’t come from top-down mandates or silver-bullet programs. It starts from within by he…
The Five Shifts: Helping School Leaders Think Differently, Act Boldly, and Embrace Transformation
To truly help schools thrive, leaders need to think differently, act boldly, and embrace transformation. That’s where these five critical shifts com…
Manage Complex Change: Keeping Your Shared Vision for Readiness in Mind
Complex change in schools is both necessary and challenging. Drawing on Mary Lippitt’s Integrated Change Management Model, this resource explores ac…
Enticing Into Confusion
No matter our instructional, distributed, or transformational leadership strengths their value does not address the change agent’s mortal enemy, the…
Build Unity Through Change: Engage Staff in Continuous Improvement Processes
Continuous improvement should be embedded in day-to-day work, in a systemized, organic way. You can think of the cyclical process as a formative asses…
Monday Morning Wins: Staff Newsletters Support and Connect the School Community
When we expanded the implementation of Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) at Ocean View High School, it quickly became clear that we needed more t…
What Great Principals Really Do: 4 Leadership Behaviors that Contribute to Your School Success
According to the article "What Great Principals Really Do," "A school's success is largely determined by the effectiveness of its principal—decades …