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Leadership for school improvement

 

 

A book of readings

Price: £19.95
ISBN: 978-1-904235-20-4

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Prof. Alma Harris has been at the forefront of research on educational leadership, school improvement,
transformation and change. Her work is at the leading edge of school improvement and points to the
potential value that can be accrued from the strengthening of school leadership, of distributed leadership
and of talent management. She is committed to working with schools and school systems to raise
achievement and to secure effective learning for all students in all settings. This book of readings brings
under one cover a number of the key research papers of the work of Prof. Alma Harris and colleagues.

1. Teacher leadership: reflection, practice and school improvement.
2. Teacher Leadership: a new orthodoxy.
3. Teacher led school improvement: teacher leadership in the UK.
4. Developing leaders for tomorrow: releasing system potential.
5. Executive leadership and school improvement.
6. Opening the black box of leadership practice: taking distributed perspective.
7. Distributed leadership: conceptual confusion and empirical reticence.
8. Distributed leadership according to the evidence.
9. Distributed leadership and organisational change: review of the evidence.
10. Improving schools in difficult contexts; towards a differentiated approach.
11. Challenging the challenged: developing an improvement program for schools facing exceptionally
challenging circumstances.

Alma Harris is Pro-Director (Leadership) and Professor of Educational Leadership at the
London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education, University of London.

 

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