Praise for Leading School Turnaround 
"Going beyond their previous considerable work on the study of leadership, Kenneth Leithwood, Alma Harris, and Tiiu Strauss now get up-close and detailed. They use their powerful framework for how school leaders influence student learning, but this time they get inside the 'how.' Practical, powerful, interesting, and insightful— an indispensible resource for turnaround leaders." —MICHAEL FULLAN, professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto 
"The problem of bringing about change in those schools where it is needed most remains one of the most intractable challenges in school leadership. This book is written by international scholars who understand the complexities of this challenge. Unlike other volumes based on a single person's experience or a reading of the literature, these authors offer useful specific insights based on data about what leaders in schools that accomplish fundamental change actually do." —PHILIP HALLINGER, Chair Professor of Leadership and Change, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Leading School Turnaround: How Successful Leaders Transform Low-Performing Schools

Education & Teaching

Leithwood, Kenneth

Harris, Alma.

Strauss, Tiiu

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

Linking Leadership to Student Learning 
Linking Leadership to Student Learning clearly shows how school leadership improves student achievement. The book is based on an ambitious five-year study on educational leadership that was sponsored by The Wallace Foundation. The authors studied 43 districts, across 9 states and 180 elementary, middle, and secondary schools. In this book, Kenneth Leithwood, Karen Seashore Louis, and their colleagues report on what they found. They examined leadership at each organizational level in the school system―classroom, school, district, community, and state. Their comprehensive approach to investigating school leadership offers a balanced understanding of how the structures within which leaders operate shape what they do. The results within will have significant implications for future policy and practice. 
Praise for Linking Leadership to Student Learning 
"Kenneth Leithwood and Karen Seashore Louis offer a seminal new contribution to the leadership field. They provide a rich and authoritative evidence base that demonstrates clearly just why school leadership is so important and how it promotes successful student learning." ―PAMELA SAMMONS, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford 
"This ambitious, groundbreaking, and thought provoking treatment of the link between school leadership and student learning is a testament to the outstanding work of these exemplary scholars. This is a 'must read' for academics and practitioners alike." ―MARTHA McCARTHY, President's Professor, Loyola Marymount University, and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Indiana University 
"The question is no longer whether school and district leader's impact student learning, but rather how they do it. The authors provide a convincing answer, one that recognizes the crucial interaction between leader and locality." ―DANIEL L. DUKE, Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Virginia

Linking Leadership to Student Learning

Seashore-Louis, Karen

Developing Expert Leadership For Future Schools

Based on the authors' research on the behaviour and thinking of school leaders, this volume presents arguments about the natue of expert school leadership. It parallels developments in the field from the early 1980s when the emphasis was on identifying the behaviours of effective principals, to the early 1990s, when the focus shifted to understanding the thinking underlying those behaviours. The ideas contained in this book should be useful in helping practising educationalists develop the skills involved in school leadership.

Business & Money

Cousins, J. Bradley

Begley, Paul T.

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Making Schools Smarter: A System for Monitoring School and District Progress

Updated Edition of Best Seller! This second edition reflects the authors′ experience in working with many superintendents and principals over the years to use the instruments and procedures outlined in the book to improve organizations.

Aitken, Robert

Jantzi, Doris

Corwin

This volume focuses on organizational learning in schools and school systems. The compilation of studies reported in the volume range from developing intellectual capacities in individuals and teams to building intellectual capacity at the school and district levels. The volume also examines the effects of organizational learning in these settings.

Understanding Schools as Intelligent Systems (Advances in Research and Theories of School Management and Educational, 4)

Ogawa, Rodney T.

Leithwood

Emerald Publishing Limited

This book presents a series of related empirical studies about the thinking and problem solving processes of expert educational leaders. It describes the nature of expert thinking and provides substantial explanations for the cognitive processes associated with expert thinking. Differences in the thinking and problem solving of male and female; novice and experienced; elementary, secondary, district administrators are all explored. In addition, the book provides a glimpse of the school administrator's world from a problem solving perspective and clarifies the kinds of experiences that give rise to expert thinking.

Expert Problem Solving: Evidence from School and District Leaders (S U N Y SERIES ON EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP)

Steinbach, Rosanne

State Univ of New York Pr

Expert Problem Solving: Evidence from School and District Leaders (Educational Leadership)

State University of New York Press

The authors of this useful guide provide a monitoring system to help schools and districts acquire the information they need to achieve their strategic planning, accountability and school-restructuring goals. They describe an ideal, achievable `model′ school and district for the year 2000, indicators of specific features of that school and ways of measuring comparable features of current schools.

Developing Expert Leadership for Future Schools

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