Notes

School Leaders' Atlas - 12/12/24

I finally finished the first draft of The School Leaders' Atlas of Load Reduction Leadership. It extrapolates cognitive load theory to describe leadership practices that differentiate consistently improving schools from the rest. 


This practitioner-facing guide, based on the codebook used in the last few LRL studies, summarizes heuristics and concrete actions leaders can take to overload staff less frequently and create space for long-term school improvement.

Blue Sky - 11/12/24

In response to what's happening on most other social media platforms, I transitioned most of my online activity over to Blue Sky. 

Hopefully, we can connect there. 

I post about things I read and the work I do.

Publications and Presentations - 11/5/24

I've been working on publishing and presenting stuff. The publications section of this site is now up and running. It lists the talks I've given and papers I've written about load reduction leadership.


As I--and other folks--publish and share work using the framework, this page will be updated with canonical LRL studies. 


Also, with the dissertation and the first round of conference papers done, I plan to create more resources here before switching my focus back to academic research and publishing.

Minimum Viable Product - 11/13/23

The Implementing LRL page is still a work in progress and much of the rest of this domain are placeholders. However, this represents a bare-bones version of this site. There is a somewhat-readable articulation of how to start using this framework for school improvement, a version of the survey leaders can use to monitor staff cognitive load, and a few pathways to dig deeper.


For now, I'll continue building this site out when I'm not working on other academic publishing.

Commitment to Open Publishing - 9/6/23

LRL is important and everyone should have access to it. So, I will post all canonical research and tools here; this may be a side project, but its not a side hustle.


I hope other researchers building from this framework will share this commitment.