Coaches provide individualized support as
needed and help principals identify and
support struggling teachers at the
schools.
Dr. Lynch strongly believes in providing
coaching through familiarity with the
research on effective schools. Over the
past few years, district and school leaders
have read From Good to Great Schools:
What Their Principals Do Well by Susan
Gray and William Streshly; Focus:
Elevating the Essentials to Radically
Improve Student Learning by Michael
Schmoker; The Talent Code: Greatness
Isn’t Born, It’s Grown by Daniel Coyle;
Qualities of Effective Teachers by James
H. Stronge; and Pathways to the Common
Core: Accelerating Achievement by Lucy
Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher
Lehman. Dr. Lynch also shares articles
about leadership and current educational
issues with principals and central office
staff several times a week.
Collaboration. Principals collaborate with
other during monthly principal meetings.
meetings, they discuss pertinent leadership issues,
such as recruiting and hiring teachers, school
safety, teacher evaluation, and retention of effective
teachers. In addition, each fall, the district hosts
Camp ABC, which is an administration and board
collaborative meeting where participants discuss
data and district plans for the upcoming year. Last
year, leaders also attended a P-20 Apple Education
Mobilization Summit where they learned about the
role of new technologies in mobilizing learning as
well as apps related to helping students master
Common Core standards.
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three Southern Regional Education Board modules:
Building Instructional Leadership Teams that Make
a Difference; Using Root Cause Analysis to Reduce
Student Failure; and Assessing Academic Rigor to
Ensure Grade-Level Proficiency. “You can’t implement things well unless the principal is part of that
learning,” Dr. Lynch said. “You can’t lead what you
don’t know.”
“Curriculum Modules: Engaging Leaders
in Solving Real World Problems”
http://tnscore.org/scoreprize/downloads/2012/SREB_
Leadership_Curriculum_Modules.pdf
Targeted professional development. Leaders are
also provided targeted training and professional
development, with an emphasis on the Common
Core, media and technology, student acquisition
of academic vocabulary, and instructional skills,
with a special focus on rigor. The dis