• Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing
• Principal to Principal DVD
• Presentation Materials

Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing

Chapter 1: March
Prioritizing Writing Instruction
• Decide if writing instruction will be your priority.
• Bring stakeholders into the decision.
• Choose a particular approach.
• Throw yourself into your chosen approach.

Chapter 6: October
Making and Meeting Expectations

• Create close-knit grade specific cohorts.
• Build effective cohorts with grade-level meetings.
• Use grade-level meetings to prepare for teaching.
• Visit classrooms to assess student writing, grade by grade.
• Deal directly with resistance to nurture good teaching.

These sample video clips are excerpts of full-length clips found on the Principal to Principal DVD. They have been compressed for Internet delivery and do not reflect the actual video quality of the DVD. On the DVD the actual video clips are shown full screen.

Making School-Wide Change with the Teaching of Writing
• How do we look at reform through the teaching of writing?

From the Principals

• Setting the Stage for Change, Identifying Needs and Next Steps
• Creating Buy-In, Collaborating on Change

• A Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing Flyer