Cognitive Coaching
Resources and links pertaining to CC. Cognitive Coaching derives from the work of Art Costa and others on teaching for Mind Sates.

Performance Assessment
A site with links to resources for performance assessment: Workshops and other assessment events, organizations, written materials, video tapes, audiotapes, web sites with and about performance assessment, and assessment software.

Supervision and Evaluation of Classroom Teachers [Acrobat File]
The supervision and evaluation process is as much a philosophy of teaching and administrating as it is a 'how to' book. The basic assumption is that all of the supervision and evaluation work done by administration and teachers will lead to improved instruction in the classroom and a higher achievement level by the students.

Measuring Effectiveness
Within the performance appraisal process, measuring means determining the level of performance by judging the quality, quantity, timeliness, and/or cost effectiveness of the work against a set of standards.

Education World - Administrators: The Principles of Principal Assessment
Many states in America are testing new principals and eliminating established principals' tenure. Will these measures improve our schools? Will there be enough qualified principals left to staff our schools?

Leadership profiles
Defines some of the characteristics of effective leadership. The Principal as a Manager, The Principal as Instructional Leader/Program Facilitator, The Principal as a School Community Leader, The Principal as a Visionary, The Principal as a Motivator.

Defining Effective Leadership for Connecticut Schools, Leithwood and Duke [pdf 176k]
The implications for leadership encompasses most of the models of leadership advocated in contemporary educational leadership (moral, instructional, and transformational).

Assessment of School-Based Management
For SBM to work, people at the school site must have "real" authority over budget, personnel and curriculum. Equally important, that authority must be used to introduce changes in school functioning that actually impact teaching and learning if SBM is to help improve school performance.