“For educators who genuinely desire to make a difference, this book will be an invaluable resource.” —Pedro Noguera, Professor of Education, UCLA
“I wish I had this resource when I was principal of a large urban high school, always trying to solve the seemingly unsolvable problem.” —Sue Szachowicz, former principal, Brockton High School/Brockton, MA
“In our efforts to help leaders grow and think critically, this collection of article summaries will be a source of great conversations.” —Curtis Jones, Superintendent, Bibb County Schools, Macon, GA, 2019 National Superintendent of the Year For years, Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang have been “designated readers” for busy front-line educators, curating the best ideas and research from scores of magazines and books. In The Best of the Marshall Memo, they’ve identified the most thought-provoking and helpful article summaries from the Marshall Memo archive and added professional learning suggestions. The book aims to help principals, teachers, superintendents, consultants, and researchers address the most pressing issues they face every day.
The book features the work of 170 researchers and practitioners, including Elena Aguilar, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Angela Duckworth, Jennifer Gonzalez, Tom Guskey, Jon Saphier, Pedro Noguera, Carol Dweck and Dylan Wiliam. Their writing come from a wide range of publications, from Phi Delta Kappan to The New York Times.
The Best of the Marshall Memo is organized in three broad categories: high-leverage practices, maximizing teachers’ impact, and classroom structures for successful learning. Each chapter focuses on a high-priority topic—for example, setting a school’s mission, time management for principals, interviewing and hiring, supervising and evaluating teachers, classroom discipline, and assessment for learning—followed by detailed professional learning suggestions.
Kim Marshall was a teacher, central-office administrator, and principal in the Boston Public Schools for more than 30 years. He now leads workshops and courses, coaches school leaders, consults with schools and districts, and produces the weekly Marshall Memo, summarizing ideas and research from over 60 publications. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2nd edition, 2013).
Jenn David-Lang has worked in education for more than 25 years as a teacher, administrator, and consultant. She now designs and provides workshops for principals and teachers, coaches leaders, and conducts school evaluations. Since 2007, Jenn has published The Main Idea, a service for busy school leaders that provides summaries of compelling education books, accompanied by suggestions for professional learning.

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching and Learning

Education & Teaching

Marshall, Kim

David-Lang, Jenn

Schools & Teaching

Epigraph Books

“For educators who genuinely desire to make a difference, this book will be an invaluable resource.” —Pedro Noguera, Professor of Education, UCLA
“I wish I had this resource when I was principal of a large urban high school, always trying to solve the seemingly unsolvable problem.” —Sue Szachowicz, former principal, Brockton High School/Brockton, MA
“In our efforts to help leaders grow and think critically, this collection of article summaries will be a source of great conversations.” —Curtis Jones, Superintendent, Bibb County Schools, Macon, GA, 2019 National Superintendent of the Year
For years, Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang have been “designated readers” for busy front-line educators, curating the best ideas and research from scores of magazines and books. In The Best of the Marshall Memo, they’ve identified the most thought-provoking and helpful article summaries from the Marshall Memo archive and added professional learning suggestions. The book aims to help principals, teachers, superintendents, consultants, and researchers address the most pressing issues they face every day.
The book features the work of 170 researchers and practitioners, including Elena Aguilar, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Angela Duckworth, Jennifer Gonzalez, Tom Guskey, Jon Saphier, Pedro Noguera, Carol Dweck and Dylan Wiliam. Their writing come from a wide range of publications, from Phi Delta Kappan to The New York Times.
The Best of the Marshall Memo is organized in three broad categories: high-leverage practices, maximizing teachers’ impact, and classroom structures for successful learning. Each chapter focuses on a high-priority topic—for example, setting a school’s mission, time management for principals, interviewing and hiring, supervising and evaluating teachers, classroom discipline, and assessment for learning—followed by detailed professional learning suggestions.
Kim Marshall was a teacher, central-office administrator, and principal in the Boston Public Schools for more than 30 years. He now leads workshops and courses, coaches school leaders, consults with schools and districts, and produces the weekly Marshall Memo, summarizing ideas and research from over 60 publications. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2nd edition, 2013).
Jenn David-Lang has worked in education for more than 25 years as a teacher, administrator, and consultant. She now designs and provides workshops for principals and teachers, coaches leaders, and conducts school evaluations. Since 2007, Jenn has published The Main Idea, a service for busy school leaders that provides summaries of compelling education books, accompanied by suggestions for professional learning.

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

Epigraph Publishing

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book Two: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

For years, Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang have been considered "designated readers," curating ideas and research for busy frontline educators. Kim's weekly Marshall Memo summarizes the best articles from more than sixty magazines and journals. In The Main Idea, Jenn writes a detailed synopsis of a carefully selected education book each month, accompanied by professional development suggestions. In The Best of the Marshall Memo, both Book One and Book Two, they have combed through more than eight thousand article summaries in the Marshall Memo archive and compiled a "best of" collection of the most thought-provoking and helpful ones, organized by topic, with accompanying professional learning suggestions to help school leaders address the most pressing problems in schools today.Each chapter of each book covers one of eleven crucial "must know" education topics and is a jackpot for the busy school leader--access to a curated set of top articles, thoughtfully organized, easily read in under an hour, and accompanied by suggestions for action. This is a welcome resource for school leaders who don't have the time to forage for school-improvement ideas while tackling the day-to-day challenges of effectively running their schools.You may read this book from cover to cover, or focus on chapters for support in a specific area, such as: <ul> <li>A principal helping staff better understand and interrupt racism and implicit bias in the school</li> <li>A department head planning a school-wide initiative to teach effective literacy skills across every grade and subject</li> <li>An instructional coach expanding their toolkit of effective pedagogical strategies</li> <li>A math department rethinking inequitable grading practices</li> <li>A district leader planning to roll out new teacher leader positions</li> </ul>

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The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching and Learning

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book Two: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

The Best of the Marshall Memo: Book Two: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning