Marcia Baldanza is also the author of Professional Practices, a Just ASK Senior Consultant and adjunct professor at Marymount University. She examines research from multiple fields to help school district leaders improve, enhance, and increase staff and student performance. She uses her more than 25 years of experience as a teacher, turnaround principal, director of state and federal programs, director of school reform and accountability, supervisor of principals, and mom to offer practical strategies and insightful reflections from the field to help answer the powerful and essential questions embedded in Just ASK publications and consulting services. She is also the author of the Just ASK brief EmpowerED 3.2.1.
The Professional Practices for the 21st Century Leader library houses forty issues of this newsletter in which Dr. Marcia Baldanza examines research from multiple fields to help school district leaders improve, enhance, and increase staff and student performance. She uses her more than 25 years of experience as a teacher, turnaround principal, director of state and federal programs, director of school reform and accountability, supervisor of principals, and mom to offer practical strategies and insightful reflections from the field to help answer the powerful and essential questions embedded in Just ASK publications and consulting services as listed here:
- What do districts, schools, and classrooms look like when
- they are organized around a commitment to high levels of learning and the well being of all students?
- all the adults are committed to the success of all other adults?
- they are results oriented?
- What is my role in creating, implementing, and maintaining such districts, schools, and classrooms?
Marcia”™s commentaries feature the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) which were published in 2015 and are now used by many states as the basis of their leadership performance standards and by many universities in their educational leadership programs. The copyright-free resource section of the Instructional Leadership Area of Focus includes PSEL self-assessments and insightful comparisons about past and present priorities of educational leaders.
- A Few of My Favorite Things
- Achieving Equity in Grading
- Baldanza’s Model of 21st Century Instructional Leadership
- Community of Care and Support for Students
- Compasses and Cornerstones
- Creating a Culture of Inquiry: A Focus on Data Teams
- Creating Professional Community for Teachers and Staff
- Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
- Developing the Professional Capacity of School Personnel
- Ethics and Professional Norms
- Equity and Cultural Responsiveness
- Equity and Cultural Responsiveness – Part II
- eVALU(E)ation & superVISION
- Growth-Producing Feedback and Looking at Student Work
- Happy New (School)! Year
- Hiring Coachable High Performers
- Learning for All Students, All Staff, and Yourself
- Make a Difference Messages
- Making PSEL Come Alive!
- Making Rigor a Reality
- Marcia’s Musings on Leadership
- Meaningful Engagement of Families and Community
- Mission, Vision, and Core Values
- My Three R’s: Review, Reflection, and Renewal
- Operations and Management
- Rethinking School Improvement:Planning with Purpose and Living the Plan
- Rigorous and Innovative Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
- School Improvement
- School Improvement… What Matters Most?
- School Improvement… What Matters Most? Part II
- School Operations Matter!
- Student-Led Conferences
- Teachers as Leaders
- The Best of 2018
- The Power of Student-Led Conferences
- The Year in Review
- There is No Need for” Guess What’s on My Mind… or Theirs!”
- Timely Tips for New Principals and Teachers
- What’s On Your Mind?
- What’s On your Mind? Part II