LibGuides: EDL-5033 v1: Module 2 Resources

Lesson 3 Required Resources

Book Chapters

What Works in School Leadership? : Making Evidence-Informed Choices
Linet A., & McGregor, D. (2024). What works in school leadership? : Making evidence-informed choices. Routledge.

Please read the following chapters:

Chapter 1: Introduction - What are instructional, distributed and transformational leadership approaches? (pages 5-6).
Chapter 5: The Empowered and/or Squeezed Middle? This chapter provides an overview of leadership models with a focus on distributive leadership.

Article

School Leadership. Models and Tools: A Review
Gougas, V., & Malinova, L. (2021). School leadership. models and tools: A review. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9(1). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348507976_School_Leadership_Models_and_Tools_A_Review
This article contains a review of several models of school leadership.

Assignment Resources

EDL-5033 Leadership Trait Questionnaire (LTQ)
(Northouse, 2018). The purpose of this questionnaire is to measure your personal characteristics of leadership.
EDL-5033 Leadership Trait Questionnaire Score Calculator
You may use this spreadsheet to average the scores provided by your 5 peers/colleagues.

Brightspace Kaltura Media
National University. Brightspace Kaltura Media. https://www.atalearning.org/brightspace-kaltura-media
Kaltura Personal Capture is a video creation tool with a simple and intuitive user interface. Please visit this page for PDFs of the Kaltura user guides to help you.

Student Guide to Adding Kaltura Media in Brightspace
This PDF provides step-by-step instructions for adding Kaltura to an assignment.

Lesson 4 Required Resources

Book Chapter

What Works in School Leadership? : Making Evidence-Informed Choices
Linet A., & McGregor, D. (2024). What works in school leadership? : Making evidence-informed choices. Routledge.

Please read the following chapter:

Chapter 6: Leading Professional Development. This chapter provides information on various approaches and models of professional development.

Video

Adult Learning Theory
GreggU. (2019). Adult learning theory [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11ZSFNFwFk
This short video provides an overview of adult learning theory, or andragogy, and practices to engage adult learners. (2:20)

Recommended Resources

Books

Theories in Adult Learning and Education
Belanger, P. (2011). Theories in adult learning and education. Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29454
This open-source book introduces concepts and practices in adult learning.

Leadership: Theory and Practice

Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). SAGE.

This book is not available through the library but is highly recommended as a leading resource on leadership.

Articles

The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes: How Successful School Leaders Use Transformational and Instructional Strategies to Make a Difference
Day, C., Gu, Q., & Sammons, P. (2016). The impact of leadership on student outcomes: How successful school leaders use transformational and instructional strategies to make a difference. Educational Administration Quarterly, 52(2), 221-258. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293807420
This article illustrates how successful leaders combine transformational and instructional leadership to shape and improve the culture of their schools to improve students' outcomes.
Leadership, Leadership Styles, and Servant Leadership
Gandolfi. F., & Stone, S. (2018). Leadership, leadership styles, and servant leadership. Journal of Management Research, 18(4), 261-269. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340940468
This paper clarifies the concept of leadership and provides an overview of leadership styles with a focus on servant leadership.
Leading Educational Change: Reflections on the Practice of Instructional and Transformational Leadership
Hallinger, P. (2003). Leading educational change: Reflections on the practice of instructional and transformational leadership. Cambridge Journal of Education, 33(3), 329-352. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1080%2F0305764032000122005
This article provides an explanation of how instructional and transformational leadership practices are linked to factors in the external environment and the local context of a school.
Principals’ Schema: Leadership Philosophies and Instructional Leadership
Zuckerman, S. J., & O'Shea, C. (2021). Principals' schema: Leadership philosophies and instructional leadership. Journal of School Leadership, 31(4), 274–296. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2F10.1177%2F1052684620966063
This study focuses on the relationship of instructional leadership theory to the instructional leadership practices of principals.