Successful school leadership : linking with learning and achievement

This book examines the nature of successful school leadership: what it is, what it looks like in practice & what are the consequences for schools & pupils

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Day, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bakshire, England : McGraw-Hill , c2011
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Leaders and contexts : what previous research tells us about the relationship
  • 2. What all successful leaders do in most contexts
  • 3. Models of leadership and pupil outcomes
  • 4. Similarities and differences between primary and secondary leaders : a badly neglected distinction in leadership research
  • 5. Characteristics and practices of leaders in schools which improved from different starting points
  • 6. Core values and practices : leadership, learning and improvement
  • 7. Phases of school improvement
  • 8. Layered leadership strategies : how leaders achieve and sustain successful school improvement
  • 9. Organizational democracy, trust and the progressive distribution of leadership
  • 10. Successful leadership : contexts, claims and qualities