Stop Fake Work in Education
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Although educators are working harder than ever before, it’s often doing paperwork, or projects that take time away from student learning and school and district goals. This “Fake Work” can mire the most dedicated educator in exhaustion, burnout, and a lack of confidence that improvement is possible.
Nielson and Burks show leaders and their teams how to stop doing Fake Work, by providing tools for gaining focus, building high- performance teams, and identifying and driving the right work with the right behaviors. When you offer your team a better way of working, planning, and collaborating, you turn Fake Work into Real Work—and stagnancy into dynamic change.
This data-driven, research-based guide shows you:​A simple, four-part model—culture, strategy, alignment, execution—for shedding Fake Work:
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Road maps for aligning organizational strategies and actions
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Tools for gaining focus, building teams, and cultivating
productive behaviors
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Real educators’ stories
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Exercises, reflection questions, charts, checklists, and more
School change remains elusive when the path to success is murky. Clear the way for teachers and students by turning Fake Work into Real Work—and uncertainty into true success. Contact us today to explore how we can incorporate the insights from this important work into your cultural change efforts.