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McREL: Turning what works in teaching, leading, and learning into innovation and results

          School-Level Balanced Leadership: An Overview
June 21 & 22, 2010
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
         Balanced Leadership®: Leadership Development that Makes a Difference
Learn more about McREL's Balanced Leadership program, which has helped more than 10,000 leaders nationwide learn how to translate research into results in their schools.
         McREL online teacher & principal evaluation systems
Measure what matters most and improve performance with McREL's personnel evaluation systems.
         Power Walkthrough® Seminar & Software
With McREL's Power Walkthrough software and training, school leaders can turn their regular classroom observations into "power walkthroughs" by using hand-held devices loaded with McREL software that uses our popular manual, Classroom Instruction that Works as the basis for observing teachers.
         Balanced Leadership Consortia
         Balanced Leadership District Level: District-Level Leadership: A Systems Perspective
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Managing Change
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Choosing the Right Focus
         Balanced Leadership School Level: An Overview
         Balanced Leadership School Level: Developing a Purposeful Community
         Connecting District and School Leadership to Student Achievement
         Asking the Right Questions: A School Change Toolkit
         Balanced Leadership Profile®
         Imagine the Unimaginable
         Leading Schools: Distinguishing the Essential from the Important
         McREL Insights—From Knowledge to Wisdom: Using Case Methodology to Develop Effective Leaders
         The Leadership We Need: Using research to strengthen the use of standards for administrator preparation and licensure programs
         Asking why when observing classrooms [Fall 2007 Changing Schools article]
         Creating Purposeful Communities [Changing Schools, Winter 2008]
         Culture: A school's secret sauce [Changing Schools, Summer 2009]
         Understanding resistance: Lessons from a river [Changing Schools, Fall 2007]
         Education Service Agencies: Initiating, Sustaining, and Advancing School Improvement
         Policy Brief - School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement
         Policy Brief: Focusing on the Basics in Beat-the-Odds Schools
         AASA Summer Leadership Conference (Breakout session)—From High Anxiety to High Reliability; School District Leadership That Works
         ABEC Annual Leadership Conference: From High Anxiety to High Reliability: Striking the Right Balance
         ABEC Annual Leadership Conference: Mindfulness: Aligned Structures and Processes
         NSDC 5th Annual Summer Conference Presentation—From Fear to Hope: Practical tools for going the distance
         Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA) Summer Leadership Conference
         Solution Tree Conference on Standards & Assessment: From Managing Conflict to Leading Change
         The Association of School Business Officials—School Business Leadership that Works: Striking the Right Balance
         Balanced Leadership®: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us about the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement
         Identifying Differences Between Two Groups of High-Needs High Schools
         Leadership: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         McREL Reports for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         School District Leadership that Works®: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement
         McREL's Principal Evaluation System
         Asking the Right Questions: A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement
         District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance
         Leadership Folio Series: Guiding Comprehensive School Reform
         Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement
         School Leadership That Works: From Research to Results
         The Balanced Leadership Framework®: Connecting Vision with Action

         The AASA Professor
A refereed journal written for professors of education leadership with a focus on research and best practices
         The Primacy of the Superintendent
This cover article for the March 2007 issue of School Administrator, written by Tim Waters and Robert Marzano of McREL, reports on the results of their meta-analytic research study on the effect of superintendents on student achievement.