Book Review: Now We’re Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership

In Now We’re Talking, Justin Baeder presents a clear and actionable method for school leaders seeking to strengthen their instructional leadership: three brief classroom visits a day. With a focus on presence, dialogue, and reflection, the book offers practical tools for building a stronger culture of teaching and learning.

Baeder’s model is both practical and inspiring. By setting a clear target of three classroom walkthroughs per day — or 500 per school year — he offers school leaders a concrete strategy to increase classroom presence and engage in deeper conversations with teachers about the heart of instruction.