Full Description
Drawing on twenty years of research in school effectiveness, this book presents a distributed model of task-based school leadership that leads to continuous school improvement. The book outlines the tasks school leadership teams must focus on to improve teaching and learning, grouped into the following five domains:
Focus on Learning
Monitoring Teaching and Learning
Building Nested Learning Communities
Acquiring and Allocating Resources
Maintaining a Safe and Effective Learning Environment
Recognizing that the principal is a single actor in a complex web of activity influencing student learning, the focus is not only on the principal's role but on a range of leadership and instructional practices to be shared across the leadership team (including APs, counselors, teachers, and support personnel). These tasks, organized into 21 subdomains, have been demonstrated through extensive research to contribute to improved student learning.
Contents
About the Authors xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue 1
Chapter 1 Distributed Leadership in Action 9
Leadership and Span of Control 12
Leader of Leaders 14
Distributed Leadership in Action 14
Tasks versus Skills 17
Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning 18
Chapter 2 Mapping School Leadership: Research Base and Domains 23
Knowledge Base for the CALL Domains 25
CALL Domains of School Leadership Practice 28
The CALL Survey in Action 34
Chapter 3 Domain 1: Focus on Learning 39
1.1 Maintaining a Schoolwide Focus on Learning 43
1.2 Recognition of Formal Leaders as Instructional Leaders 46
1.3 Collaborative Design of Integrated Learning Plan 48
1.4 Providing Appropriate Services for Students Who Traditionally Struggle 50
Putting It All Together to Focus on Learning 53
Chapter 4 Domain 2: Monitoring Teaching and Learning 59
A Brief History of Accountability and Schools: Emergence of a New Model of Instructional Leadership 62
Building Information Ecologies to Support Teaching and Learning 66
2.1 Formative Evaluation of Student Learning 67
2.2 Summative Evaluation of Student Learning 71
2.3 Formative Evaluation of Teaching 73
2.4 Summative Evaluation of Teaching 77
Putting It All Together: Information Ecologies for Schools 80
Chapter 5 Domain 3: Building Professional Community 87
Designing Professional Community 91
3.1 Collaborative Schoolwide Focus on Problems of Teaching and Learning 92
3.2 Professional Learning 93
3.3 Socially Distributed Leadership 96
3.4 Coaching and Mentoring 97
Putting It All Together: Design as a Model for Building Professional Community 99
Lessons for Building Professional Community in Schools 101
Chapter 6 Domain 4: Acquiring and Allocating Resources 107
4.1 Personnel Practices 111
4.2 Structuring and Maintaining Time 115
4.3 School Resources Focus on Student Learning 118
4.4 Integrating External Expertise into the School Instructional Program 120
4.5 Coordinating and Supervising Relations with Families and External Communities 122
Putting It All Together: Acquiring and Allocating Resources 124
Chapter 7 Domain 5: Establishing a Safe and Effective Learning Environment 131
The Practices That Matter to Develop Safe and Effective Learning Environments 134
5.1 Clear, Consistent, and Enforced Expectations for Student Behavior 135
5.2 Clean and Safe Learning Environment 141
5.3 Support Services for Students Who Traditionally Struggle 142
Putting It All Together: Innovative Practices for Building Safe and Effective Learning Environments 148
Chapter 8 Mapping Leadership Practice 157
Mapping Leadership Practice 163
Using the CALL Map 169
Charting the Course to Improved Teaching and Learning 171
Appendix A CALL Research Publications 173
Appendix B Observations about Some Differences in CALL Results between Secondary and Elementary Schools 175
Appendix C Description of the CALL Research and Validation Project 181
Appendix D CALL Domains 193
References 195
Index 205
