educational leadership

Provides principals with positive strategies to assist teachers in adjusting curriculum, instruction, assessment, and feedback.

Presents advice and strategies for successful school improvement leadership drawn from the experiences of distinguished educators.

Provides a workbook for planning how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

Offers school leaders practical advice on how they can implement positive changes in their schools and communities through teacher leadership, focusing on the latest research findings, practical applications, and ways to improve student achievement and educational equity.

Argues that rather than protest the call for accountability in schools, teachers and administrators should embrace it as an opportunity for empowerment, developing student-centered accountability systems of their own in order to improve teaching methods and influence policy makers; and explains how to do so.

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities; and describes the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

Analyzes how American schools in the twenty-first century are preparing students for life in a global society and encourages teachers to create a curriculum the emphasizes the knowledge and skills students will need as globalization continues to spread.

Presents an examination of leadership in education, including information on the different qualities of teacher leaders, with practical advice on enhancing communication, overcoming obstacles, energizing colleagues, and improving student and teacher achievement.