Here are your instructional leadership news highlights for October.

We're listening to, and vigorously nodding our heads along with, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders of the Education Sector.”

Here are your instructional leadership news highlights from September.

EducationNext has a great piece out this week, one of the many responses to TNTP's report on teacher development. Check out the part that struck the deepest chord with us:

Here are this week's must-read articles for teachers and instructional leaders:

Here are this week's must-read articles for teachers and instructional leaders:

Here are this week's must-read articles for teachers and instructional leaders:

There's a fantastic essay in the Washington Post today, penned by Illinois educator Stephen Traphagen, that explores why teachers, and students, should engage in "scary" conversations about failure and continuous learning. The entire piece is worth a read, but here's a teaser (and a spoiler, since it's the last paragraph):