Successful School Leadership : Linking With Learning And Achievement.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the values and qualities of head teachers, the strategies they use and how they adapt these to their particular school context in order to ensure positive increases in the learning, well being and achievement of their students.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Day, Christopher
Other Authors: Sammons, Pam, Leithwood, Ken
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd., 2011
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Appendices; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Contexts for success; 1 Leaders and contexts : What previous research tells us about the relationship; 2 What all successful leaders do in most contexts; Part 2: Leadership actions and pupil outcomes; 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 pointsPart 3: Who heads are and what they do to build and sustain success; 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; Part 4: Future progress and prospects; 9 Organizational democracy, trust and the progressive distribution of leadership; 10 Successful leadership: Contexts, claims and qualities; Appendices; References; Index; Adverts; Back cover.