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      • Dr. Cynthia Elsberry
      • Dr. Faron Hollinger
      • Shawn Nutting, CETL
      • Franklin Schargel
      • Jim Williams
  • Our Services
  • Five Critical Leadership Practices: The Secret to High-Performing Schools
  • Five Critical Practices of Principals Who Improve Student Learning
    • 1. Focus on the Direction
    • 2. Build a Powerful Organization
    • 3. Ensure Student Focused Vision and Action
    • 4. Give Life to Data
    • 5. Lead Learning
  • Resources
    • Five Critical Practices School or District Inventory
    • Five Critical Practices Correlation with Alabama Plan 2020
    • Five Critical Practices Correlation
    • Five Critical Practices Research Base
    • Comprehensive Recruitment and Selection Guide
    • Principal Recruitment and Selection Kit
  • Links
    • Radio Interview
  • Selected Publications
    • The Recruitment and Selection of Principals Who Improve Student Learning
    • The Principal as Chief Learning Officer: Developing Teacher Leaders
  • Alabama Superintendents' Transformational Leadership Academy
    • Current TLA Members and Partners
    • Meetings
  • Hoover Assistant Principal Academy Resources
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    • Critical Practice 1 >
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5.            Lead learning. 

 5.1          Establishing an environment of daily learning and providing time for others to collaborate, reflect, and share knowledge


  • Modeling collaboration, reflection, and knowledge sharing in daily practice and encouraging others to do the same
  • Providing protected time in the daily schedule for others to collaborate, reflect, and share knowledge, while shifting classroom work from a focus on teaching to learning
  • Rewarding formal and informal collaboration and knowledge sharing
  • Maintaining systematic processes for sharing knowledge

  5.2          Challenging the status quo and working with others to achieve change goals


  • Inviting different perspectives from others by asking the right questions and listening to the answers
  • Creating a sense of urgency about positive change and improvement in every area
  • Empowering others to remove barriers to change
  • Encouraging conversations about new ideas for improvement

  5.3          Implementing methods to motivate, support, and/or encourage innovation


  • Creating opportunities for others to work together in teams to generate new ideas and create significant, meaningful change
  • Working with others to develop innovation goals and systematic processes so that innovation is part of the culture
  • Celebrating new ideas and recognizing the efforts of others who try new ideas, even if the outcomes are not always successful
  • Investing resources in supporting innovation in programs, services, and processes to create new value for stakeholders
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