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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

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ASCD is a research website filled with many articles on effective practices and new information for educational leaders. In addition to the articles, ASCD provides subscribers with access to webinars, books, magazines, podcasts, and more. Users can gain access to these things for as low as $4.99 each month.

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We create practical, timely, affordable professional learning to help educators and instructional leaders provide students with a modern, equitable, and quality education.

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LiveBinders allows users to create virtual binders to organize material. I think administrators can use LiveBinders to highlight and archive excellent information about their school to share with stakeholders.
User can create 5 free binders.

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Canvas is a learning management system. It is similar to Google Classroom, however, this system can be integrated with more interactive programs. Check out the video above to gain insight into great information about the program.

Here is a video from the students' perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_i0232PWzI

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A Principal's Reflection is an award-winning blog that offers educational leaders guidance through articles written by top experts in the field. Many articles focus on the learning process, integrating technology, and culture and climate. This site is a great way read many perspectives in place on several topics.

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The Main Idea is a website created by Jenn David-Lang. Lang reviews top educational literature on effective practices and provides thorough monthly summaries to subscribers. This website is a great way to get some initial information on new topics. The subscription is $39 each month.

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Resources to Strengthen Your Leadership

These are difficult times to navigate as a leader. To help, I've created a page where you can view useful resources all in one place. You can click on a topic and easily explore all of the related book summaries, PD ideas, discussion questions, BookBits, tools, and podcasts.

What exactly does THE MAIN IDEA provide?

THE MAIN IDEA creates an 8-page summary of a current education book each month. This summary contains the core ideas of the book, and organizes those ideas with enough accompanying details and examples, so you can have a working knowledge of its content. At the end, THE MAIN IDEA includes a full page of suggestions for ways to use the ideas in the book for professional development of your staff.

A year-long subscription to THE MAIN IDEA not only includes these monthly book summaries, but it also includes free access to over 140 book summaries and workshops in our archives.

Mission of THE MAIN IDEA

At THE MAIN IDEA we believe education can be transformative for students. Currently there is a great deal of information about improving student learning. However, although expert knowledge is available, it is not necessarily in the hands of true practitioners - principals and school leaders.

THE MAIN IDEA helps to bridge that gap by providing school leaders with the best current education ideas and practices. Through in-depth 8-page summaries of current education books, and suggestions for implementing those ideas, THE MAIN IDEA empowers education leaders with the knowledge and tools to improve student learning.

What are the benefits of THE MAIN IDEA's summaries?

Improve your knowledge → Improve your school

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Learn the core ideas of 8-10 powerful education books a year

Improve your knowledge of current education ideas and practices

Get the important information in each book from the clearly organized format

Stay current and continue to learn - all the best education leaders do

IMPLEMENT MORE

Provide in-house professional development sessions yourself with PD suggestions in each summary

Use the ideas from the summaries in working with individual teachers

Rejuvenate yourself and your teachers by infusing your school with new ideas

The book I've been working on with Kim Marshall available now!

Kim and I chose 11 crucial "must know" education topics every busy school leader should know about. Then we combed through more than 8,000 article summaries in the Marshall Memo archive and compiled a "best of" collection for these 11 topics.

Free Sample Summary

Enter your info below for a link to download a free sample summary.

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Skip to content These are difficult times to navigate as a leader. To help, I've created a page where you can view useful resources all in one place. You can click on a topic and easily explore all of the related book summaries, PD ideas, discussion questions, BookBits, tools, and podcasts.