Description
Momentum Guides: The Boost You Need to Maintain Leadership Growth
Transform Feedback into Actionable Growth
Are you an administrator, coach, or teacher leader who provides feedback and is striving to strengthen instructional leadership? The Lead Forward Momentum Guides provide a structured yet flexible pathway to improve feedback, foster professional growth, and build a culture of continuous learning.
Each guide is designed to spark reflection and drive meaningful action, whether you’re working alone or collaborating with a team. With a combination of essential questions, reflective prompts, and immediately applicable next steps, you’ll be equipped to turn insights into impact.
What’s Inside the Momentum Guides?
Each color-coded guide is aligned with a chapter from Learner-Focused Feedback (Tepper & Flynn, 2019) and connects directly to the Lead Forward Inspiration Deck for a seamless, research-based experience, but can stand alone as a learning tool.
- Essential Questions – Frame your reflection with a big-picture inquiry.
- Six Reflective Questions – Guide deep thinking about instructional practices.
- Actionable “Boosts” – Take immediate, targeted steps to improve leadership and feedback strategies.
- Additional Resources – Discover tools that enhance reflection and maximize impact.
How to Use the Guides
- Standalone Growth Tool – Use on your own or with your leadership team.
- Pair with the Book – Align with Learner-Focused Feedback and book study activities for a structured learning experience.
- Combine with the Lead Forward Inspiration Deck – Add motivation and real-time applications to your practice.
Whether you’re leading one-on-one coaching, facilitating instructional rounds, or supporting professional learning communities, the Lead Forward Momentum Guides help you assess where you are and take purposeful steps toward where you want to be.
Why Choose the Momentum Guides?
- Designed for Busy Leaders – Practical, research-based tools that fit into your workflow.
- Aligned with Effective Feedback Practices – Rooted in the principles of Feedback to Feed Forward.
- Encourages Reflective Leadership – Deepens understanding and strengthens instructional impact.
- Promotes Meaningful Change – Moves beyond theory to real, actionable improvements in your schools.
Get Your Momentum Guides Today!
Empower yourself and your team with practical tools to refine your leadership, sharpen feedback strategies, and cultivate a thriving learning culture.
Maintain your momentum and sustain your leadership growth!
Kim Roy –
As an Assistant Principal, one of my core responsibilities is supporting and developing the leadership capacity of my staff. The Lead Forward Momentum Guides are an invaluable resource in this work. These guides offer clear, practical action steps that I can immediately apply with my instructional leadership team, which includes grade-level team leaders (PK-4), as well as our literacy and math coaches. What I love most about the guides is their structure. Each one begins with a thoughtfully crafted essential question that grounds thinking. From there, the six “Boost” steps provide focused areas for reflection, each paired with a specific action to ensure meaningful progress. This framework will support me in being intentional and aligned in my school’s leadership development efforts.These guides will further equip me in leading with more purpose and clarity. I have used a few actions already with my instructional leadership team and the feedback from the teachers has been positive. Teachers on the team feel as if there is more of a purpose, it is aligned with our district work in supporting overall student improvement, and teachers have expressed that they feel more confident and capable in providing peer feedback to their colleagues.
-Kim Roy, Assistant Principal