Breaking the Low Achieving Mindset

by Dr. Susan Abplanalp with forewords by Mary Louise Gomez, Anne Conzemius & Jan O'Neill (QLD, 2007)

Dr. Susan Abplanalp

Breaking the Low Achieving Mindset: A S.M.A.R.T. Journey of Purposeful Change provides a rare first-hand account of how a Principal turned a low-performing urban school into an award-winning, high-performing professional learning community.

Through Sue Abplanalp's story, you'll learn:

• How to unite a school around a common vision
• How to use data to dispel myths about why students are underperforming
• How staff teams can become a catalyst for change in teaching practices
• How to use ongoing, diverse professional development to drive improvements in student achievement
• How to work through challenges and frustrations
• Skills and methods that build shared leadership
• Actions of an effective school leader
• S.M.A.R.T. tools and methods that help you with all the above

. . . and much more!

"Sue Abplanalp's work as a principal leading change, and as an author reporting that process, is powerful.  . . . The clear and concrete language, the crisp articulation of strategies, tools and conditions necessary for improving teaching quality are described vividly so that potential school improvers might use Abplanalp's guide as a means for achieving their own students' successful learning."

Shirley Hord, author of Taking Charge of Change, co-author of Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes

 

Download the Study Guide for this book below, as well as the handouts and slides from Sue's webinar "Engaging Students in Change."