Learning Leader

<p><strong><em>We can't do that in our school district.<br />I don't have time to add that to my curriculum.<br />We're fighting against impossible odds with these students.</em></strong></p><p><strong>Sound familiar? School improvement can often feel like a losing battle but it doesn't have to be.</strong> In this fully revised and updated second edition of <em>The Learning Leader </em> Douglas B. Reeves helps leadership teams go beyond excuses to capitalize on their strengths reduce their weaknesses and reset their mindset and priorities to achieve unprecedented success.</p><p>A critical key is recognizing student achievement as more than just a set of test scores. Reeves asserts that when leaders focus exclusively on results they fail to measure and understand the importance of their own actions. He offers an alternative--the Leadership for Learning Framework which helps leaders identify and distinguish among four different types of educators and provide more effective tailored support to</p><p><strong>- Lucky educators </strong> who achieve high results but don't understand how their actions influence achievement.<br /><strong>- Losing educators </strong> who achieve low results yet keep doing the same thing expecting different outcomes.<br /><strong>- Learning educators </strong> who have not yet achieved the desired results but are working their way toward excellence.<br /><strong>- Leading educators </strong> who achieve high results and understand how their actions influence their success.</p><p>Reeves stresses that effective leadership is neither a unitary skill nor a solitary activity. <em>The Learning Leader</em> helps leaders reconceptualize their roles in the school improvement process and motivate themselves and their colleagues to keep working to better serve their students.</p>