Bringing together internationally recognised scholars such as Andy Hargreaves, Megan Crawford and Lorna Earl, this book focuses on the relationship between leadership and learning. It draws together a wealth of knowledge and evidence in the field, including:

Effective leadership practices across a variety of contexts, such as system leadership, professional learning communities and leading different cultures; Expert commentaries on research, practice and theory; Overviews of international research evidence on leadership and learning

This book is for students on Masters, EdD courses and similar programmes in educational leadership.

Leadership and Student Learning: What Works and How

Leadership and Student Learning: What Works and How

Leadership and student learning: What works and how
KennethLeithwood

This chapter brings together two lines of recent research in response to the two most crucial questions now facing leaders, leadership researchers and policy-makers who depend on successful leadership to meet their goals for school reform: ‘How does leadership improve student learning?’ and ‘Which leadership practices account for that improvement?’

This chapter synthesizes two recent lines of inquiry in which my colleagues and I have been engaged as a response to the most crucial question currently facing school leaders, leadership researchers and policy-makers who depend on good leadership to achieve their reform goals. This question is about how successful leadership improves student learning and what it is that successful leaders do ...

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