Successful school leadership : linking with learning and achievement / Christopher Day ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Christopher, ACP.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

School principals.

Physical Description:

xx, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This book is based on the largest and most extensive empirical study of contemporary leadership in primary and secondary schools in England. The results demonstrate that heads of successful schools improve the quality of student learning and achievement through who they are their values, virtues, dispositions and competencies - as well as their timely use of change and improvement strategies.

Successful School Leadership provides a comprehensive analysis of the values and qualities of head teachers. It assesses 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. The authors:

Identify a basic set of leadership practices resulting from their findings

Analyse and describe the leadership values, qualities and behaviours related to different phases in schools' improvement journeys

Provide illustrative case studies of primary and secondary schools that" highlight context sensitive strategies

Provide a contemporary overview of international research and thinking about successful school leadership

Recognize similar and distinguishing features between schools in different socio-economic groups

This book is valuable reading for school leaders and senior teachers; educational policy makers and advisors, as well as anyone involved or interested in education and its leadership. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Contexts for success 1

1 Leaders and contexts: what previous research tells us about the relationship 3

2 What all successful leaders do in most contexts 17

Part 2 Leadership actions and pupil outcomes

3 Models of leadership and pupil outcomes 33

4 Similarities and differences between primary and secondary leaders: a badly neglected distinction in leadership research 63

5 Characteristics and practices of leaders in schools which improved from different starting points 82

Part 3 Who heads are and what they do to build and sustain success 107

6 Core values and practices: leadership, learning and improvement 109

7 Phases of school improvement 134

8 Layered leadership strategies: how leaders achieve and sustain successful school improvement 152

Part 4 Future progress and prospects 191

9 Organizational democracy, trust and the progressive distribution of leadership 193

10 Successful leadership: contexts, claims and qualities 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-265) and index.

ISBN:

033524243X

9780335242436

9780335242443

0335242448

9780335242450

0335242456

OCLC:

693828394