Peter M. DeWitt 
Instructional Leadership [PDF ebook] 
Creating Practice Out of Theory

About the Companion Website
Why this book?
This Book’s Features
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Tap Into Your True Inner Instructional Leader
Blog – Help! My Principal Says He’s an Instructional Leader!
Chapter One: Instructional Leadership: A Holistic Approach
What the Research Says About Instructional Leadership
In the End
Study Guide Questions
Chapter Two: The Logic Behind Implementation
What Is Program Logic?
From Program Logic to Implementation Cycle
Implementation Multi-Stage Model
In the End
Study Guide Questions
Chapter Three: A Focus on Learning: Deepening Our Impact as Instructional Leaders
Types of Learning: Knowledge vs. Skills
Levels of Learning: Surface, Deep, and Transfer
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Knowledge Dimensions
In the End
Study Guide Questions
Chapter Four: Student Engagement: From Alienation to Social-Emotional Learning
Alienation
Social-Emotional Learning
Five Easy Steps to Social-Emotional Learning
Enabling Conditions
Blog – Educators Need Mindfulness. Their Mental Health May Depend on It.
In the End
Study Guide Questions
Chapter Five: Instructional Strategies: Exploring Surface, Deep, and Transfer Learning
Academic Engagement
Blog – The Myth of Walkthroughs: Eight Unobserved Practices in Classrooms
Teacher Clarity
Classroom Discussion
Metacognition
In the End
Study Guide Questions
Chapter Six: Collective Efficacy: Easy to Define, Hard to Build?
Collective Teacher Efficacy: A Definition
Why Do We Need Collective Teacher Efficacy?
Blog – No Testing Week
No Testing Week
Leadership Efficacy
When Do We Build Collective Efficacy?
Why Is Collective Efficacy Hard to Build?
Collective Efficacy: A Program Logic Model
In the End
Study Guide Questions
Chapter Seven: Evidence: How Will You Evaluate Your Impact?
Evidence of Impact
Student Engagement Practices
Blog – Advisory Groups: Helping to Create a Positive School Climate
Instructional Leadership
In the End
Reflection Tool
Study Guide Questions
References
Index

Peter De Witt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For the last 10 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books.    De Witt′s professional learning relationships are a monthly hybrid approach that includes both coaching and the facilitating workshops on instructional leadership and collective efficacy.  Additionally, in the Summer of 2021, De Witt created a year long on-demand, asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has created a community of learners that include k-12 educators in leadership positions.    De Witt′s work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K.   Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week, which has been in circulation since 2011. In 2020 De Witt co-created Education Week′s A Seat At the Table where he moderates conversations with experts around the topics of race, gender, sexual orientation, research,  trauma and many other educational topics.    Additionally, De Witt is the Series Editor for the Connected Educator Series (Corwin Press) and the Impact Series (Corwin Press) that include books by Viviane Robinson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Yong Zhao and Michael Fullan.   He is the 2013 School Administrators Association of New York State′s (SAANYS) Outstanding Educator of the Year,  and the 2015 Education Blogger of the Year (Academy of Education Arts & Sciences), and sits on numerous advisory boards.  Peter is the author, co-author or contributor of numerous books. Click on title to purchase. They include: Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students