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This website contains up to date articles on educational leadership topics. Since new topics and problems are arising every day in the educational field, it is important to stay current with trends and issues. Some of the articles that I read were about tips for becoming a better educational leader, how to demonstrate leadership potential, teacher shortages, and experimental education. I like how this website showcases numerous current educational articles in one location so you do not need to search for them.

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This website contains up to date articles on educational leadership topics. Since new topics and problems are arising every day in the educational field, it is important to stay current with trends and issues. Some of the articles that I read were about tips for becoming a better educational leader, how to demonstrate leadership potential, teacher shortages, and experimental education. I like how this website showcases numerous current educational articles in one location so you do not need to search for them.

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Education Leadership Archives - The Edvocate

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Never lose touch with the latest education information. We created The Edvocate to keep a check on the belief systems and educational policies that are negatively impacting the education.

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This is a list of the top 10 blogs to follow on social media. There are twitter accounts, blogs, and other social media platforms where well known educator leaders are sharing their thoughts and insights about educational leadership. Each of the suggested sites are geared towards different groups such as principals, classroom management, educational toolkits, and perspectives on educational leadership. There are other links to resources such as websites and books that you can access. The great thing about blogs and social media posts is that they are constantly being updated with current information and new ideas, which would keep a teacher leader up to date. 

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This is a list of the top 10 blogs to follow on social media. There are twitter accounts, blogs, and other social media platforms where well known educator leaders are sharing their thoughts and insights about educational leadership. Each of the suggested sites are geared towards different groups such as principals, classroom management, educational toolkits, and perspectives on educational leadership. There are other links to resources such as websites and books that you can access. The great thing about blogs and social media posts is that they are constantly being updated with current information and new ideas, which would keep a teacher leader up to date. 

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Think back to 15-20 years ago, educational leaders got most of their professional learning from books and conferences. Now there are many including blogs. different methods of professional learning as there are a variety of social media tools to use Blogs are a great way to learn more about certain topics and more about the people who write them. Click To Tweet Having the opportunity to learn more about topics such as educational leadership, and leadership in general, is a huge professional benefit in the day and age we currently live.

There are many good leadership blogs such as Lolly Daskal's , Leadership Freak , and by Ken Blanchard to name a few. Not to mention many good leadership websites such as , Fast Company, and . In this post, we will focus on educational leadership blogs and some of my favorites to read for professional growth. Hopefully you will find a few of them useful to help you grow as a leader:

A collection of blogs (a few from some of the blogs listed below) written by leaders from around the world. Check out the Guided Principles on the site; it has some inspiring statements in it.

Great blog by covering a variety of topics, from innovation and creativity to parents attending professional learning days. Check out the George Couros Presentation Resources portion of the blog. Its filled with many tools and resources at your disposal.

Jimmy Casas knows his stuff when it comes to building culture. Check out the link; definitely some keepers in there.

The Compelled Educator by Jennifer Hogan includes a wide variety of topics for leaders and educators just getting into social media and blogging. Continuously updated and a neat link with many different educational tools. Also, check out the #CompelledTribe hashtag on Twitter for other educational bloggers from around the world.

Sean Galliard mixes music with leadership in a unique way. Mixing music, education and different leadership ideas, this blog is one to check out for a different perspective on leadership.

Eric Sheninger covers all the realms of leadership from every perspective: education technology integration, leadership thoughts, innovation, and creating student-centered environments. His is full of resources and includes links to purchase his latest books.

This leadership blog by David Geurin focuses on many tools to help your teachers and teams including classroom management, educational tech tools, communications and other important leadership topics. David averages around 53 blog posts a year, so there is constantly new material on his blog.

Empowering educators on the road to change, Craig Vroom (also a member of the #CompelledTribe group) has timely posts ranging from gearing up for the beginning of the school year, how to finish the school year strong, and essentials of being a teacher and leader.

's blog walks you through his different life experiences and the effects they have had on his views in education. He also shares a large number of his books on his site as well.

shares his insights on coaching, design thinking and leadership. This blog is so good, it doesn't even need a name.

BONUS: Check out Reflections by for an insightful look into leadership and some meaningful experiences that help us all grow.

Read, Write and Learn

Reading and writing will help make you a better leader. You should start your own blog and really set a goal to continuously reflect and share your experiences with others. Not only will it help you grow, you will be helping others along the way.

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The 10 Best Blogs to Follow on Educational Leadership -

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"Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy." - Phil Cooke Think back to 15-20 years ago, educational leaders got most of their professional learning from books and conferences. Now there are many different methods of professional learning as there are a variety of social media tools to use including blogs.

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This website is geared towards balanced literacy and promoting best practice techniques. It focuses on being a literacy coach and how to effectively assist teachers. There are different sections based upon literacy components such as interactive read alouds, guided reading, reading workshop, writing workshop, and classroom environment. Each section has coaching conversation starters, lesson planning prompts, problem solving, articles on the topic, and resources to guide conversations. This website emphasizes how coaching is about building relationships and forming a collaboration where the teacher and the coach are both learners. As a teacher leader it is important to be able to share resources as well be able to assist another teacher in a specific area of learning. If one is unfamiliar with literacy, this would be the perfect resource to use. 

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This website is geared towards balanced literacy and promoting best practice techniques. It focuses on being a literacy coach and how to effectively assist teachers. There are different sections based upon literacy components such as interactive read alouds, guided reading, reading workshop, writing workshop, and classroom environment. Each section has coaching conversation starters, lesson planning prompts, problem solving, articles on the topic, and resources to guide conversations. This website emphasizes how coaching is about building relationships and forming a collaboration where the teacher and the coach are both learners. As a teacher leader it is important to be able to share resources as well be able to assist another teacher in a specific area of learning. If one is unfamiliar with literacy, this would be the perfect resource to use. 

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Read, watch and talk about the best practices in comprehensive literacy.