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An actionable guide for improving student success by improving school leadership system-wide Effective school leadership can have a transformative impact on the lives of students. In Leadership Development on a Large Scale, educational leaders and policy makers will gain evidence-based guidance for sustaining improved leadership and scaling up existing leadership initiatives across school districts and states. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this book draws lessons from one of the most successful long-term educational leadership studies ever conducted to provide actionable advice and specific strategies. Learn how to: • Understand the evidence base to design effective leadership development programs and initiatives • Support instructional leaders in leading collaborative inquiry approaches to classroom pedagogy to help teachers convey complex ideas to students • Establish Principal Learning Teams to help guide school-wide and districtwide decision-making By drawing on the numerous cases and stories outlined in Leithwood’s book, educators will gain a deep understanding of how to take leadership development to the next level and prepare the next wave of talented school leaders for success.
Evidence Used by LSA to Learn Its Way Forward
Evidence Used by LSA to Learn Its Way Forward
Over the course of its 12 years, to date, decisions on the part of LSA’s Steering Team and Board have been heavily informed by substantial amounts of systematically collected evidence. As Chapter 1 indicated, much of this evidence was provided by the project’s own research and evaluation results. Annual cycles of research and evaluation have been used to assess the extent to which project priorities have been implemented in members’ schools, to estimate the impact of such implementation on schools and students, and to uncover challenges to further implementation that the project might help overcome. Identifying implications of these annual cycles of results for future project directions ...
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