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What do leaders need to know to be effective?

Instructional leadership

How can educational leaders keep schools focused on teaching and learning?

  • The (only) three ways to improve performance in schools <summary + video> Richard Elmore
  • Reconnecting the superintendent to instruction <interview> Richard Elmore
  • A new view: distributed leadership <summary + video> John Diamond

Developing skills and beliefs

  • Reforming the education of school leaders <article> Jerome Murphy
  • Overcoming "immunity to change" <article> Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey

Social conditions that enable learning

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How can leaders build more successful institutions?

Leading school improvement

What are the challenges educational leaders can expect to face, and how can obstacles be overcome?

  • Linking school improvement to community organizations <article> Mark Warren
  • Building a new structure for school leadership <article> Richard Elmore
  • Creating "win-win" labor-management collaboration <interview + audio> Paul Reville

Strengthening leadership teams

What conditions, and what leadership strategies, foster team building and collaboration?

  • Developing leaders and leadership in organizations <article> David Perkins
  • Data-driven teaching <article> Paul Reville

Making philanthropy count

How can we maximize the impact of grants?

Innovating in higher education

How can we support student learning and improve management at the university level?

  • Remediation at the college level: Who needs it, and does it help? <article> Bridget Terry Long
  • Entering the college presidency <article> Judith McLaughlin

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