and Threats
Day 8 Action Challenge: Link Everything to Your Task-Management App’s Inbox
Organize by Action With the PEEP Approach
Organize by Due Date, Time Required, and Energy Level
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, but Not Out of Control
Day 9 Action Challenge: Set Up Your PEEPs
10 Maximizing Your Mental Energy With Habits
Learn How Patterns Become Habits
Understand How Habits Work
See Why Habits Matter
Conserve Mental Energy With Habits
Learn Five Ways to Change Your Habits
Day 10 Action Challenge: Inventory Your Habits
Week 3: High-Impact Instructional Conversations
11 Going Beyond Data Collection and the Feedback Sandwich
Learn Why Data Collection Undermines Professional Conversations
Understand Why the Feedback Sandwich Undermines Professional Conversations
Avoid Feedback Unrelated to Teachers’ Goals
Day 11 Action Challenge: Break the Suggestion Habit
12 Facilitating Evidence-Based Conversations
Ask Evidence-Based Questions
Ask Genuine Questions
Ground Conversation in Specific Evidence
Understand the Teacher’s Goals
Seek Context and Withhold Judgment
Evaluate Practice, Not Lessons
Day 12 Action Challenge: Refer to Evidence
13 Bringing a Shared Instructional Framework Into the Conversation
Understand Problems With Opinion-Based Conversations
Use the Instructional Framework as an Arbiter
Understand the Components of Your Instructional Framework
Make Sense of the Instructional Framework and Grain Size
Learn Strategies for Handling Disagreements About Performance
Day 13 Action Challenge: Use Instructional Framework Language
14 Developing Skills for High-Impact Conversations
Have Professionally Rewarding Conversations
Listen When Teachers Ask for Feedback
Understand How to Handle Teachers Who Become Defensive
Have Impactful Conversations
Accept a Lack of Closure
Day 14 Action Challenge: Engage Without Defensiveness
15 Handling the Toughest Conversations
React Thoughtfully When You’re Not Welcome
Discourage the Impromptu Dog-and-Pony Show
Keep Conversations on Track
Maintain Rigor and Accuracy in Discussing Levels of Practice
Day 15 Action Challenge: Prepare for Challenging Conversations
Week 4: High-Performance Instructional Leadership Enhancement
16 Building Your Feedback Repertoire
Write High-Quality Feedback
Learn the Vocabulary of Your Curriculum
Keep Your Feedback Repertoire Accessible With a Phrase Database
Structure Your Thinking With Templates
Build Trust With Consistency, Not Canned Feedback
Notice and Document What Matters Most
Use Your Feedback Repertoire in Conversation
Day 16 Action Challenge: Find Reusable Language
17 Balancing Your Formal Evaluation Responsibilities
Consider Everything Fair Game
Remember Contractual Restrictions on Informal Observations
Differentiate High Stakes and Low Stakes
Allocate Formal Evaluation Time With the 80:20 Rule
Close the High-Stakes Evidence Gap
Learn the Claim, Evidence, Interpretation, and Judgment Format for Writing Rock-Solid Evaluations
Day 17 Action Challenge: Identify High-Stakes Teachers
18 Identifying Improvements From Classroom Visits
