Dr. Douglas Reeves

Dr. Douglas Reeves is the author of more than 40 books and 100 articles on education and leadership. Twice named to the Harvard University Distinguished Authors Series, Doug is the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Brock International Prize and the Contribution to the Field Award. He was named by Consulting Magazine as one of the top five leadership consultants in the United States. He has worked in 50 states and more than 40 countries. Doug’s most recent books include Fearless Schools and Fearless Classrooms. He lives in Boston.

Categories: Educator, Educator - Assessment and Grading, Educator - Leadership, Educator - Poverty, Local to New England

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Topics

Achieving Equity and Excellence: Immediate Results From the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools

Accountability

New Generation Leadership and Teacher Evaluations: Linking Student Results, Teaching Practices, and Leadership Strategies in Real Time

With landmark new research, Dr. Reeves provides the latest evidence from a dynamic system linking teaching, learning, and leadership. Accountability and evaluation have been the toxic waste dump of education, humiliating, and alienating students, teachers, and administrators. "It doesn't have to be that way," says Reeves. "We can use accountability as a learning system." The hallmarks of this new research represent three essential shifts. First, accountability changes from summative to formative-teachers and leaders received feedback throughout the year. Second, it is reciprocal-rather than teachers evaluated by administrators and principals evaluated by superintendents, accountability is an interactive process in which both the person assessed and the assessor make contributions to the evidence. Third, it is real-time and future-oriented rather than retrospective and backward-oriented. "The fundamental purpose of accountability is not to rate, rank, and humiliate," Reeves concludes, "but to improve system performance. That is what the new generation of leadership and teacher evaluations can do."

Leadership

Leadership and Learning: What's New About Change Leadership?

In this provocative keynote address, Dr. Reeves challenges the conventional wisdom about change leadership. Does system-level change really take five to seven years? Is an implementation dip necessary? Is stakeholder buy-in a precondition of significant change? With compelling evidence from different research perspectives, Dr. Reeves challenges these and other prevailing notions of change leadership. In addition, Dr. Reeves addresses these critical topics for educators, school leaders, and policymakers:

* How can schools save time and money?
* How can schools innovate in a time of limited resources?
* How can we assess creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and other 21st-century skills?
*How can we engage students without pandering to them?
* How can leaders build resilience and perseverance for students, staff members, and communities?

This presentation is packed with the latest research and practical applications and will simultaneously encourage and challenge every member of the audience.

Common Core

Standards Are Not Enough: Engaging the Hearts and Minds of Every Stakeholder

If we have learned anything during the past two decades of the standards movement, it is that merely delivering a set of standards to the schoolhouse door accomplished nothing. In this interactive presentation, Dr. Reeves identifies the "worst practices" in standards implementation and creates a vision for engaging the intellectual and emotional energy or teachers, students, parents, and educational leaders. This session will consider five essential questions:

* How am I doing? The student's perspective on standards
* What do I do? How teachers add value to standards
* How's my kid doing? The parent's view of standards
* How is our system performing? The leader's view of standards
* Is that all there is? 21st-century demands beyond the standards

Books

Achieving Equity and Excellence: Immediate Results From the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools

Achieve high performance for all in your school. In Achieving Equity and Excellence, author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Study the mindset of high-poverty, high-success schools and follow their example to implement the equitable and just practices necessary to make student success a sustainable reality.

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The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results

The Learning Leader uses research studies and observations from successful schools to explore common myths about school leadership and details the leadership actions linked to higher student achievement.

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Making Standards Work: How to Implement Standards-Based Assessments in the Classroom, School, and District

Performance assessments are powerful tools for accurately measuring what students know and are able to do. Making Standards Work leads you through the steps of creating and using performance assessments to determine your students' achievement throughout the school year. Dr. Reeves' straightforward approach to improving student achievement begins with using performance assessments that contain real-world scenarios, multiple tasks, and clear, consistent scoring guides. Thousands of educators have used this book as an essential guide to creating effective standards-based classrooms, schools, and districts.

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Assessing Educational Leaders: Evaluating Performance for Improved Individual and Organizational Results

Drawing on current research, theory, and best practices of leadership, organizational performance, and personnel evaluation, this book contains the information and tools necessary to successfully evaluate al types of educational leaders and improve individual and organizational performance. Author of 17 books and numerous articles, national expert on topics of educational leadership and accountability Douglas B. Reeves provides a blueprint for creating a leader evaluation system that is fair and consistent. Based on 10 Dimensions of Leadership, Reeves provides a scoring rubric that allows leaders, boards, and leadership trainees to compare performance that is exemplary, proficient, and progressing with performance that does not meet today's standards. Whether your school system already h as a leadership evaluation system in place or you are just starting to create one, this book will improve the way you evaluate and develop educational leaders.

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