SCoE: Instructional Leadership

Book chapter focuses on practices of principals who help their teachers and Whole-Faculty Study Groups experience success, while dramatically enhancing the principal's effectiveness as an instructional leader.

Centered on the principalship and is designed to offer busy school leaders time management strategies for finding the time to be genuine instructional leaders.

Discusses individual and group activities that can be used by council and school administrators, staff developers, teachers, and parents working together for school improvement.

A former high school English department chair provides practical strategies and proven resources for becoming an effective teacher leader.

Explores how teacher leadership is an intrinsic and important part of school and classroom improvement.

Addresses common challenges of coaches and instructional leadership teams. Also includes field-tested activities, materials, and forms for collecting data, navigating busy days, and organizing information.

Book chapter chapter addresses three questions: What do we mean by instructional leadership? How is instructional leadership practised at the teacher level? What, if any, are its effects?

Examines the role of headteachers in leading instruction and provides practical ways for leaders to reflect on and improve their practice.

Shows administrators, principals, and other education leaders how to apply a leadership model to the work of running schools and districts.

Examines all types of leaders: from the school principal to the teacher leader. Also looks closely at each organizational level in the school system school, classroom, community, district, and state.

Presents a new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and will and explains the best ways to support individual teachers' ongoing professional development.

Provides strategies that have been successfully field-tested in schools across the United States and Canada.

Comprehensive guide walks headteachers through the curriculum development and renewal process with encouragement, hitting the hard issues of doing more with less, integrating technology, overcoming resistance to change, and improving student outcomes.

Guides motivated school leaders through 50 self-reflection exercises designed to yield a deeper understanding of the meaning behind the work that they do.

Classic guide continues to be the leading Research Methods text that specifically deals with Educational Leadership and Management.