Win Time: Fearlessly Transforming Your School

by Stephanie McConnell, Morris Lyon

WIN Fearlessly Transforming Your School is an action-driven, practical leadership playbook and roadmap that provides a proven path to success so you can create your own WIN system in your school. The authors breakdown the steps of defining WIN and "what" and "why" you need to provide interventions and enrichments for your students. WIN Time will equip you with ideas and inspire you to take action to transform your campus. These very ideas transformed our school from low-performing to being awarded the prestigious National Blue Ribbon by the U.S. Department of Education for our progress in closing the achievement gaps. This book is designed to be a practical based approach for leadership, designed around a proven learner-centered approach. The proven learner-centered “What I Need” intervention system is outlined in detail within the book and sets the stage for how this book is designed for your leadership solutions. Lessons learned from seasoned administrators are discussed and outlined throughout the book to help the reader reflect and apply scenarios to their own schools. Each chapter concludes with a problem-based scenario that allows the learner to walk through a provided roadmap to help design a solution to an issue in their school. This book will hopefully be “What You Need” to spark a thoughtful solution to an area of struggle on your leadership journey. True professional growth is acquired through reflection. We feel this book provides the spark for reflection in some common areas where we have struggled in our leadership experience. A true learner-centered school is composed of professionals with a passion for learning. If we, as educators, can model a love for learning, it sends a powerful message to the students. I have learned many lessons over the past twenty years as an administrator. Hopefully, some of the lessons shared in the book will make your journey a little easier. Remember to be your best self, build relationships, be grateful, lead with passion, and always model a love for learning. - Morris Lyon, Superintendent, and Author I believe successful schools must have strong and effective leaders. The fundamental purpose for writing this book is to assist you as you transform your school into a true, high-performing school and to help you improve student achievement and learning. I hope that by sharing our experiences and what we have learned, we can help you on this journey. - Stephanie McConnell, Principal, Author, and Owner of Principal Principles

Genres: Education, Leadership

185 pages, Paperback

Published February 19, 2020

Reviews

[Marcie Marzullo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very good takeaways.

[Megan · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is mindless drivel and empty positivity. I read this because my campus where I teach has decided to implement the WIN time model of intervention, and one of my assistant principals mentioned this book and author by name. I mistakenly thought it would share a framework for organizing WIN time and ideas for how to plan to meet my students' needs. WRONG! This self-published book instead shared about the two campuses where the author has been a principal, talked about how challenging leadership can be, and shared personal experiences about how you can need staff buy-in to change practices on a campus if you are a principal. It was not helpful at all.

[Sarah Schumacher · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the idea of the WIN Time model and found some helpful nuggets as I think about implementation. There is a lot of rah-rah and filler in the book, though, that any reasonable experienced administrator would know. Definitely a skim-read.

[Beth Lind · Rating 4 out of 5]

Motivational and full of inspiration and ready to use ideas.