Improve leadership impact by reducing organizational drag

Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Sarah Green Carmichael.

When linking teacher pay to student achievement, the devil is in the details. Be aware of potentially explosive issues when exploring a performance pay policy for your district

Responding to data, evaluating employees fairly, and constantly assessing your district’s performance are just some of the ways you can make a merit system work

Like many districts, Indiana’s Elkhart Community Schools faced a host of challenges due to the recession. So how did the district manage to thrive despite hard times?

Discover constructive ideas for the teacher shortage.

We don't need to speculate about the causes of the teacher shortages that have been playing out in many parts of the country.

Evaluting your superintendent is important, but rankings are often ambiguous or politicized. How can you make superintendent assessments a valuable tool for change?

One demands evidence before embracing change, while the other resists it at all cost. Here’s why you should listen to the skeptics and avoid the cynics when making crucial decisions

What you can do to redesign public education from the ground up

There is a prevailing mythology of change leadership that if we just find the right blend of persuasion, research, and emotional appeal, then the staff will embrace the changes that leaders wish to make.

Although the demand for 21st century skills has spawned a good deal of enthusiasm, the reality of curriculum in K–12 education remains firmly rooted in the traditions of past centuries.

Why PLCs Fail to Meet their Potential

Although many schools around the world have claimed to embrace the professional learning community (PLC) process, it would be more accurate to describe the current state of affairs in many schools as PLC Lite. Educators rename their traditional faculty or department meetings as PLC meetings, engage in book studies that result in no action, or devote collaborative time to topics that have no effect on student achievement — all in the name of the PLC process.

How an Iowa school district confronted its challenges, made significant changes, and worked its way to improved student achievement

One of the most difficult challenges in any school reform proposal is the local context.

A strategy for building a strong collegial culture while taking student learning into account in assessing teachers.

Board members must separate fact from fiction when trying to figure out the real expectations their community has for the school district and from public education as a whole

The New Model of Educational Change focuses on action before buy-in. What does the 21st century say about educational change? One to one, peer to peer and non evaluative coaching has more impact than traditional evaluation systems.